TRANSURANIC ELEMENT, COMPOSITION THEREOF, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING SEPARATING AND PURIFYING SAME
Abstract
A process of separating plutonium from fission products contained in an aqueous solution is described. Plutonium, in the tri- or tetravalent state, and the fission products are coprecipitated on lanthanum fluoride, lanthanum oxalate, cerous fluoride, cerous phosphate, ceric iodate, zirconyl phosphate, thorium iodate, or thorium fluoride. The precipitate is dissolved in acid, and the plutonium is oxidized to the hexavalent state. The fission products are selectively precipitated on a carrier of the above group but different from that used for the coprecipitation. The plutonium in the solution, after removal of the fission product precipitate, is reduced to at least the tetravalent state and precipitated on lanthanum fluoride, lanthanum phosphate, lanthanum oxalate, lanthanum hydroxide, cerous fluoride, cerous phosphate, cerous oxalate, cerous hydroxide, ceric iodate, zirconyl phosphate, zirconyl iodate, zirconium hydroxide, thorium fluoride, thorium oxalate, thorium iodate, thorium peroxide, uranium iodate, uranium oxalate, or uranium peroxide, again using a different carrier than that used for the precipitation of the fission products.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Originating Research Org. not identified
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4843648
- Patent Number(s):
- 3000697
- Assignee:
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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C - CHEMISTRY C22 - METALLURGY C22B - PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS
- NSA Number:
- NSA-15-027685
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-61
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- CHEMISTRY; ACTINIDES; CERIUM FLUORIDES; CERIUM HYDROXIDES; CERIUM PHOSPHATES; FISSION PRODUCTS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDES; IMPURITIES; IODATES; LANTHANUM FLUORIDES; LANTHANUM HYDROXIDES; OXALATES; PLUTONIUM; PRECIPITATION; PRODUCTION; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SOLUTIONS; THORIUM COMPOUNDS; THORIUM FLUORIDES; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; WATER; ZIRCONIUM HYDROXIDES; ZIRCONIUM PHOSPHATES
Citation Formats
Wahl, A C. TRANSURANIC ELEMENT, COMPOSITION THEREOF, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING SEPARATING AND PURIFYING SAME. United States: N. p., 1961.
Web.
Wahl, A C. TRANSURANIC ELEMENT, COMPOSITION THEREOF, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING SEPARATING AND PURIFYING SAME. United States.
Wahl, A C. Tue .
"TRANSURANIC ELEMENT, COMPOSITION THEREOF, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING SEPARATING AND PURIFYING SAME". United States.
@article{osti_4843648,
title = {TRANSURANIC ELEMENT, COMPOSITION THEREOF, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING SEPARATING AND PURIFYING SAME},
author = {Wahl, A C},
abstractNote = {A process of separating plutonium from fission products contained in an aqueous solution is described. Plutonium, in the tri- or tetravalent state, and the fission products are coprecipitated on lanthanum fluoride, lanthanum oxalate, cerous fluoride, cerous phosphate, ceric iodate, zirconyl phosphate, thorium iodate, or thorium fluoride. The precipitate is dissolved in acid, and the plutonium is oxidized to the hexavalent state. The fission products are selectively precipitated on a carrier of the above group but different from that used for the coprecipitation. The plutonium in the solution, after removal of the fission product precipitate, is reduced to at least the tetravalent state and precipitated on lanthanum fluoride, lanthanum phosphate, lanthanum oxalate, lanthanum hydroxide, cerous fluoride, cerous phosphate, cerous oxalate, cerous hydroxide, ceric iodate, zirconyl phosphate, zirconyl iodate, zirconium hydroxide, thorium fluoride, thorium oxalate, thorium iodate, thorium peroxide, uranium iodate, uranium oxalate, or uranium peroxide, again using a different carrier than that used for the precipitation of the fission products.},
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place = {United States},
year = {1961},
month = {9}
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