PROCESS FOR SEPARATION OF HEAVY METALS
Abstract
A method is described for separating plutonium from aqueous acidic solutions of neutron-irradiated uranium and the impurities associated therewith. The separation is effected by adding, to the solution containing hexavalent uranium and plutonium, acetate ions and the ions of an alkali metal and those of a divalent metal and thus forming a complex plutonium acetate salt which is carried by the corresponding complex of uranium, such as sodium magnesium uranyl acetate. The plutonium may be separated from the precipitated salt by taking the same back into solution, reducing the plutonium to a lower valent state on reprecipitating the sodium magnesium uranyl salt, removing the latter, and then carrying the plutonium from ihe solution by means of lanthanum fluoride.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Originating Research Org. not identified
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4330444
- Patent Number(s):
- 2832793
- 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 C07 - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY C07C - ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
- NSA Number:
- NSA-12-014397
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-58
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- PATENTS; ACETATES; ACIDS; ALKALI METALS; COMPLEXES; IMPURITIES; IONS; LANTHANUM FLUORIDES; MANGANESE; NEUTRON BEAMS; PATENT; PLUTONIUM; PLUTONIUM COMPOUNDS; PRECIPITATION; REDUCTION; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLUTIONS; URANIUM; URANYL COMPOUNDS; WATER
Citation Formats
Duffield, R B. PROCESS FOR SEPARATION OF HEAVY METALS. United States: N. p., 1958.
Web.
Duffield, R B. PROCESS FOR SEPARATION OF HEAVY METALS. United States.
Duffield, R B. Tue .
"PROCESS FOR SEPARATION OF HEAVY METALS". United States.
@article{osti_4330444,
title = {PROCESS FOR SEPARATION OF HEAVY METALS},
author = {Duffield, R B},
abstractNote = {A method is described for separating plutonium from aqueous acidic solutions of neutron-irradiated uranium and the impurities associated therewith. The separation is effected by adding, to the solution containing hexavalent uranium and plutonium, acetate ions and the ions of an alkali metal and those of a divalent metal and thus forming a complex plutonium acetate salt which is carried by the corresponding complex of uranium, such as sodium magnesium uranyl acetate. The plutonium may be separated from the precipitated salt by taking the same back into solution, reducing the plutonium to a lower valent state on reprecipitating the sodium magnesium uranyl salt, removing the latter, and then carrying the plutonium from ihe solution by means of lanthanum fluoride.},
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place = {United States},
year = {1958},
month = {4}
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