CONCENTRATION OF Pu USING OXALATE TYPE CARRIER
Abstract
A method is given for dissolving and reprecipitating an oxalate carrier precipitate in a carrier precipitation process for separating and recovering plutonium from an aqueous solution. Uranous oxalate, together with plutonium being carried thereby, is dissolved in an aqueous alkaline solution. Suitable alkaline reagents are the carbonates and oxulates of the alkali metals and ammonium. An oxidizing agent selected from hydroxylamine and hydrogen peroxide is then added to the alkaline solution, thereby oxidizing uranium to the hexavalent state. The resulting solution is then acidified and a source of uranous ions provided in the acidified solution, thereby forming a second plutoniumcarrying uranous oxalate precipitate.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Originating Research Org. not identified
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4164863
- Patent Number(s):
- 2933369
- Assignee:
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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C - CHEMISTRY C01 - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY C01G - COMPOUNDS CONTAINING METALS NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C01D OR C01F
C - CHEMISTRY C22 - METALLURGY C22B - PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS
- NSA Number:
- NSA-14-021611
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-60
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- CHEMISTRY; ALKALI METALS; AMINES; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CARBONATES; ENRICHMENT; HYDROGEN PEROXIDES; OXALATES; PLUTONIUM; PRECIPITATION; SOLUTIONS; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; WATER
Citation Formats
Ritter, D M, and Black, R P.S. CONCENTRATION OF Pu USING OXALATE TYPE CARRIER. United States: N. p., 1960.
Web.
Ritter, D M, & Black, R P.S. CONCENTRATION OF Pu USING OXALATE TYPE CARRIER. United States.
Ritter, D M, and Black, R P.S. Tue .
"CONCENTRATION OF Pu USING OXALATE TYPE CARRIER". United States.
@article{osti_4164863,
title = {CONCENTRATION OF Pu USING OXALATE TYPE CARRIER},
author = {Ritter, D M and Black, R P.S.},
abstractNote = {A method is given for dissolving and reprecipitating an oxalate carrier precipitate in a carrier precipitation process for separating and recovering plutonium from an aqueous solution. Uranous oxalate, together with plutonium being carried thereby, is dissolved in an aqueous alkaline solution. Suitable alkaline reagents are the carbonates and oxulates of the alkali metals and ammonium. An oxidizing agent selected from hydroxylamine and hydrogen peroxide is then added to the alkaline solution, thereby oxidizing uranium to the hexavalent state. The resulting solution is then acidified and a source of uranous ions provided in the acidified solution, thereby forming a second plutoniumcarrying uranous oxalate precipitate.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {1960},
month = {4}
}
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