SHINE and Mini-SHINE Column Designs for Recovery of Mo from 140 g-U/L Uranyl Sulfate

Technical Report · Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1330563· OSTI ID:1330563

Stepinski, Dominique C. ^[1]; Vandegrift, George F. ^[1]

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1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Argonne is assisting SHINE Medical Technologies (SHINE) in their efforts to develop an accelerator-driven process that utilizes a uranyl-sulfate solution for the production of fission Mo-99. In an effort to design a Mo-recovery system for the SHINE project using low-enriched uranium (LEU), we conducted batch, breakthrough, and pulse tests to determine the Mo isotherm, mass-transfer zone (MTZ), and system parameters for a 130 g-U/L uranyl sulfate solution at pH 1 and 80°C, as described previously. The VERSE program was utilized to calculate the MTZ under various loading times and velocities. The results were then used to design Mo separation and recovery columns employing a pure titania sorbent (110-μm particles, S110, and 60 Å pore size). The plant-scale column designs assume Mo will be separated from 271 L of a 141 g-U/L uranyl sulfate solution, pH 1, containing 0.0023 mM Mo. The VERSE-designed recovery systems have been tested and verified in laboratory-scale experiments, and this approach was found to be very successful.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 1330563
• Report Number(s): ANL/NE-16/11; 129607; TRN: US1700448
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

38 RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY, AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
MATERIALS RECOVERY
URANYL SULFATES
SLIGHTLY ENRICHED URANIUM
MOLYBDENUM 99
DESIGN
MASS TRANSFER
TITANIUM OXIDES
ISOTHERMS
TEMPERATURE RANGE 0273-0400 K
FISSION
LOADING
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
ACCELERATORS
PULSES
VELOCITY
ZONES
EXTRACTION COLUMNS
Mo-99
SHINE