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PROCESS FOR PRODUCING URANIUM TETRAFLUORIDE

Patent ·
OSTI ID:4325625
>This patent relates to improvements in the method for producing uranium tetrafluoride by treating an aqueous solutlon of a uranyl salt at an elevated temperature with a reducing agent effective in acld solutlon in the presence of hydrofluoric acid. Uranium tetrafluoride produced this way frequentiy contains impurities in the raw material serving as the source of uranium. Uranium tetrafluoride much less contaminated with impurities than when prepared by the above method can be prepared from materials containing such impurities by first adding a small proportion of reducing agent so as to cause a small fraction, for example 1 to 5% of the uranium tetrafluoride to be precipitated, rejecting such precipitate, and then precipitating and recovering the remainder of the uranium tetrafluoride.
Research Organization:
Originating Research Org. not identified
NSA Number:
NSA-12-010237
Assignee:
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Patent Number(s):
US 2689165
OSTI ID:
4325625
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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