Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

ANL progress on the cooperation with CNEA for the Mo-99 production : base-side digestion process.

Conference ·
OSTI ID:971907

Conversion from high-enriched uranium (HEU) to low-enriched uranium (LEU) targets for the Mo-99 production requires certain modifications of the target design, the digestion and the purification processes. ANL is assisting the Argentine Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica (CNEA) to overcome all the concerns caused by the conversion to LEU foil targets. A new digester with stirring system has been successfully applied for the digestion of the low burn-up U foil targets in KMnO4 alkaline media. In this paper, we report the progress on the development of the digestion procedure with stirring focusing on the minimization of the liquid radioactive waste.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
Sponsoring Organization:
NNSA
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
971907
Report Number(s):
ANL/CMT/CP-114331
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
ENGLISH