Photochemical oxygenation of a technetium fluoride using F{sub 2} and O{sub 2}
Conference
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OSTI ID:370609
- Argonne National Laboratory, IL (United States)
Photochemical conversion of technetium fluorides and oxyfluorides is largely uninvestigated. Because technetium was introduced into U.S. uranium enrichment plants, decommissioning and decontamination of these plants will involve technetium fluorides and oxyfluorides. Photochemical conversion of such compounds may facilitate waste minimization and cost avoidance goals during plant clean-up. Photochemical fluorination using ultraviolet photolysis of a mixture of fluorine and oxygen gases is an effective means of converting solid, nonvolatile fluorides of fight actinides, such as U, Np, and Pu, into volatile hexafluorides thereby removing surface radioactive contamination. Our studies involved the interaction of ultraviolet light, oxygen, and fluorine with technetium fluoride.
- OSTI ID:
- 370609
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960376--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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