Key features of the Talspeak and similar trivalent actinide-lanthanide partitioning processes

Conference · Tue Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2008

OSTI ID:21230353

Nash, Kenneth L ^[1]

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1. Washington State University, Chemistry Department, P.O. Box 644630, Pullman, WA 99164-4630 (United States)

As closing of the nuclear-fuel cycle via the suite of UREX processes under development in the U.S. progresses, the Trivalent Actinide-Lanthanide Separation by Phosphorus Extractants and Aqueous Komplexants (TALSPEAK) process has been selected as the baseline process for partition of trivalent actinides away from fission-product lanthanides. In this report, selected features of the chemistry of the TALSPEAK process and the limited parallel information on other TALSPEAK-like processes are discussed. (author)

• Research Organization: Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (United States)
• OSTI ID: 21230353
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

07 ISOTOPE AND RADIATION SOURCES
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
ACTINIDES
FISSION PRODUCTS
FUEL CYCLE
PHOSPHORUS
RARE EARTHS
REPROCESSING
TALSPEAK PROCESS