PLUTONIUM SEPARATION METHOD
Abstract
The recovery of plutonium ions from neutron irradiated uranium can be accomplished by bufferlng an aqueous solutlon of the irradiated materials containing tetravalent plutonium to a pH of 4 to 7, adding sufficient acetate to the solution to complex the uranyl present, adding ferric nitrate to form a colloid of ferric hydroxide, plutonlum, and associated fission products, removing and dissolving the colloid in aqueous nitric acid, oxldizlng the plutonium to the hexavalent state by adding permanganate or dichromate, treating the resultant solution with ferric nitrate to form a colloid of ferric hydroxide and associated fission products, and separating the colloid from the plutonlum left in solution.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Originating Research Org. not identified
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4296290
- Patent Number(s):
- 2860949
- 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
G - PHYSICS G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS G21C - NUCLEAR REACTORS
- NSA Number:
- NSA-13-008403
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-59
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- PATENTS; ACETATES; ACIDITY; CATIONS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; CHROMIUM OXIDES; COLLOIDS; FISSION PRODUCTS; HYDROXIDES; IONS; IRON HYDROXIDES; IRON NITRATES; IRRADIATION; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MANGANESE OXIDES; NEUTRON BEAMS; NITRIC ACID; OXIDATION; PERMANGANATES; PLUTONIUM; PLUTONIUM COMPOUNDS; RECOVERY; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SOLUTIONS; URANIUM; URANYL COMPOUNDS; WATER
Citation Formats
Beaufait, Jr, L J, Stevenson, F R, and Rollefson, G K. PLUTONIUM SEPARATION METHOD. United States: N. p., 1958.
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Beaufait, Jr, L J, Stevenson, F R, & Rollefson, G K. PLUTONIUM SEPARATION METHOD. United States.
Beaufait, Jr, L J, Stevenson, F R, and Rollefson, G K. Tue .
"PLUTONIUM SEPARATION METHOD". United States.
@article{osti_4296290,
title = {PLUTONIUM SEPARATION METHOD},
author = {Beaufait, Jr, L J and Stevenson, F R and Rollefson, G K},
abstractNote = {The recovery of plutonium ions from neutron irradiated uranium can be accomplished by bufferlng an aqueous solutlon of the irradiated materials containing tetravalent plutonium to a pH of 4 to 7, adding sufficient acetate to the solution to complex the uranyl present, adding ferric nitrate to form a colloid of ferric hydroxide, plutonlum, and associated fission products, removing and dissolving the colloid in aqueous nitric acid, oxldizlng the plutonium to the hexavalent state by adding permanganate or dichromate, treating the resultant solution with ferric nitrate to form a colloid of ferric hydroxide and associated fission products, and separating the colloid from the plutonlum left in solution.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {1958},
month = {11}
}
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