Waste management analysis for the nuclear fuel cycle. I. Actinide recovery from aqueous salt wastes
A preliminary feasibility study of solvent extraction methods has been completed for removing actinides from selected salt wastes likely to be produced during reactor fuel fabrication and reprocessing. The use of a two-step solvent extraction system, tributyl phosphate (TBP) followed by a bidentate organophosphorus extractant (DHDECMP), appears most efficient for removing actinides from salt waste. The TBP step would remove most of the plutonium and >99.99% of the uranium. The second step, using DHDECMP, would remove >99.91% of the americium, the remaining plutonium (>99.98%), and other actinides from the acidified salt waste.
- Research Organization:
- Atomics International Div., Golden, CO (USA). Rocky Flats Plant
- DOE Contract Number:
- EY-76-C-04-3533
- OSTI ID:
- 6221971
- Report Number(s):
- RFP-2812
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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052001* -- Nuclear Fuels-- Waste Processing
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
ACTINIDES
AMERICIUM
BUTYL PHOSPHATES
DATA
DATA FORMS
ELEMENTS
ESTERS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
EXTRACTION
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
INFORMATION
ISOLATED VALUES
MANAGEMENT
METALS
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS
PHOSPHONIC ACID ESTERS
PHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS
PLUTONIUM
PROCESSING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOLVENT EXTRACTION
TBP
THORIUM
TRANSPLUTONIUM ELEMENTS
TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS
URANIUM
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
ACTINIDES
AMERICIUM
BUTYL PHOSPHATES
DATA
DATA FORMS
ELEMENTS
ESTERS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
EXTRACTION
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
INFORMATION
ISOLATED VALUES
MANAGEMENT
METALS
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS
PHOSPHONIC ACID ESTERS
PHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS
PLUTONIUM
PROCESSING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOLVENT EXTRACTION
TBP
THORIUM
TRANSPLUTONIUM ELEMENTS
TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS
URANIUM
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING