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Comparison of the performance of solvent wash reagents used for the primary cleanup of degraded PUREX solvent

Published:2022-11-23 Issue:1 Volume:111 Page:53-62
ISSN:0033-8230
Container-title:Radiochimica Acta
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Author:

Mishra Satyabrata¹,Mukhopadhyaya Chandan¹,Patra Chayan¹,Panantharayil Vishnu Anand¹,Rajesh Puspalata²³,Sivakumar Dasari¹,Desigan Narasimhan¹,Dhamodharan Krishnan¹,Velavendan Periyakaruppan¹,Rajeev Ramachandran Pillai¹,Venkatesan Konda Athmaram¹³,Ananthasivan Krishnamurthy¹

Affiliation:

1. Reprocessing Group, IGCAR , Kalpakkam , India

2. Water & Steam Chemistry Division , BARC Facilities , Kalpakkam , India

3. Homi Bhabha National Institute , Mumbai 400 094 , India

Abstract

Abstract The effectiveness of the solvent wash reagents such as sodium carbonate and hydrazine carbonate were compared using the lean solvent obtained during reprocessing of high plutonium content fast reactor spent nuclear fuel. The concentrations of the reagents were optimized based on the removal of retained metal ions from the lean solvent and 1.5 M hydrazine carbonate was found to be optimal and superior to sodium carbonate to be adopted as the reagent for primary cleanup of the spent solvent. Both the reagents were found to possess excellent room temperature stability and their performance was not affected upon gamma irradiation which was assessed in terms of capacity to remove di-butyl phosphate from degraded TBP/n-DD system.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ract-2022-0079/pdf

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