1. The Development and Testing of the New Flowsheets for the Plutonium Purification Cycle of the Purex Process.
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Bugrov, Konstantine.V., Korotaev, Viktor G., Korchenkin, Konstantine K., Logunov, Mikhail V., Lukin, Sergey A., Mashkin, Alexander N., Melentev, Anatoly B., and Samarina, Natalya S.
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PLUTONIUM ,REACTOR fuel reprocessing ,CHEMICAL purification ,CHEMICAL stability ,VALENCE (Chemistry) ,SPENT fuel elements ,RAFFINATE ,BIOCHEMICAL substrates - Abstract
In order to improve the extraction flowsheet of RT-1 Plant two versions of plutonium purification unit flowsheet were developed: a flowsheet with stabilization of Pu(IV)-Np(IV) valence pair and Pu, Np co-recovery, and a flowsheet with stabilization of Pu(IV)-Np(V) valence pair and Pu recovery. The task related to stabilization of the valence pair of the target components in the required state was solved with the use of reactants already applied at RT-1 Plant, namely, hydrogen peroxide, hydrazine nitrate and catalyst (Fe). Both flowsheets were adapted for the plant purification facility with minimum modifications of the equipment, and passed the full scale industrial testing. As a result of this work, reduction in volume and salt content of the raffinate was achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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