Recent Developments in the Purex Process for Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing: Complexant Based Stripping for Uranium/Plutonium Separation

In order to recycle potentially valuable uranium and plutonium, the Purex process has been successfully used to reprocess spent nuclear fuel for several decades now at industrial scales. The process has developed over this period to treat higher burnup fuels, oxide as well as metal fuels w...

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Main Authors: J. Eddie Birkett, Michael J. Carrott, O. Danny Fox, Chris J. Jones, Chris J. Maher, Cécile V. Roube, Robin J. Taylor, David A. Woodhead
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Swiss Chemical Society 2005-12-01
Series:CHIMIA
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Online Access:https://chimia.ch/chimia/article/view/4089