Method for removal of plutonium impurity from americium oxides and fluorides

Patent · 12 February 1987

OSTI ID:6755777

FitzPatrick, J R; Dunn, J G; Avens, L R

Method for removal of plutonium impurity from americium oxides and fluorides. AmF/sub 4/ is not further oxidized to AmF/sub 6/ by the application of O/sub 2/F at room temperature thereto, while plutonium compounds present in the americium sample are fluorinated to volatile PuF/sub 6/, which can readily be separated therefrom, leaving the purified americium oxides and/or fluorides as the solid tetrafluoride thereof.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• Assignee: TIC; ERA-14-000126; EDB-88-182613
• Patent Number(s): PATENTS-US-A6014324
• OSTI ID: 6755777
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ACTINIDES
AMERICIUM
AMERICIUM COMPOUNDS
AMERICIUM FLUORIDES
AMERICIUM OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
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HALIDES
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INVENTIONS
METALS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PLUTONIUM
PURIFICATION
REMOVAL
TRANSPLUTONIUM COMPOUNDS
TRANSPLUTONIUM ELEMENTS
TRANSURANIUM COMPOUNDS
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