METHOD OF SEPARATING URANIUM VALUES, PLUTONIUM VALUES AND FISSION PRODUCTS BY CHLORINATION
Abstract
The separation of plutonium and uranium from each other and from other substances is described. In general, the method comprises the steps of contacting the uranium with chlorine in the presence of a holdback material selected from the group consisting of lanthanum oxide and thorium oxide to form a uranium chloride higher than uranium tetrachloride, and thereafter heating the uranium chloride thus formed to a temperature at which the uranium chloride is volatilized off but below the volatilizalion temperature of plutonium chloride.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4252708
- Patent Number(s):
- 2875021
- Assignee:
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
C - CHEMISTRY C01 - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY C01G - COMPOUNDS CONTAINING METALS NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C01D OR C01F
- NSA Number:
- NSA-13-015184
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-59
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- CHEMISTRY; ADDITIVES- CHEMICAL REACTIONS- CHLORINATION- CHLORINE- CRUCIBLES- FISSION PRODUCTS- GASES- HEATING- HIGH TEMPERATURE- LANTHANUM OXIDES- METALLURGY- NIOBIUM ALLOYS- OPERATION- OXIDES- OXYGEN- PATENT- PLUTONIUM- PLUTONIUM CHLORIDES- REACTOR CORE- REACTORS- REFINING- SEPARATION PROCESSES- SOLIDS- TEMPERATURE- TENSILE PROPERTIES- THORIUM OXIDES- URANIUM- URANIUM CHLORIDES- VOLATILITY- ZIRCALOY; BIBLIOGRAPHY- CHEMICAL REACTIONS- CHLORINATION- CHLORINE- CHROMIUM ALLOYS- CORROSION- CRUCIBLES- FABRICATION- FISSION PRODUCTS- GASES- GENERATORS- HEATING- IRON ALLOYS- LANTHANUM OXIDES- MECHANICAL PROPERTIES- ME
Citation Formats
Brown, H S, and Seaborg, G T. METHOD OF SEPARATING URANIUM VALUES, PLUTONIUM VALUES AND FISSION PRODUCTS BY CHLORINATION. United States: N. p., 1959.
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Brown, H S, & Seaborg, G T. METHOD OF SEPARATING URANIUM VALUES, PLUTONIUM VALUES AND FISSION PRODUCTS BY CHLORINATION. United States.
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"METHOD OF SEPARATING URANIUM VALUES, PLUTONIUM VALUES AND FISSION PRODUCTS BY CHLORINATION". United States.
@article{osti_4252708,
title = {METHOD OF SEPARATING URANIUM VALUES, PLUTONIUM VALUES AND FISSION PRODUCTS BY CHLORINATION},
author = {Brown, H S and Seaborg, G T},
abstractNote = {The separation of plutonium and uranium from each other and from other substances is described. In general, the method comprises the steps of contacting the uranium with chlorine in the presence of a holdback material selected from the group consisting of lanthanum oxide and thorium oxide to form a uranium chloride higher than uranium tetrachloride, and thereafter heating the uranium chloride thus formed to a temperature at which the uranium chloride is volatilized off but below the volatilizalion temperature of plutonium chloride.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {1959},
month = {2}
}
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