An improvement in APOR process I-uranium/plutonium separation process

The reduction stripping behavior of Pu(IV) from 30%TBP/OK with hydroxysemicarbazide (HSC) was inves-tigated, and the separation efficiency of HSC and DMHAN-MMH for U/Pu partitioning in Purex process was compared. The results show that HSC can effectively realize the separation of Pu from U;using mix...

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Published in:核技术（英文版） 2015-08 (4), p.040605-6
Main Authors: XIAO Song-Tao, LI Li, YE Guo-An, LUO Fang-Xiang, LIU Xie-Chun, YANG He, LAN Tian
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Language:English
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Summary:The reduction stripping behavior of Pu(IV) from 30%TBP/OK with hydroxysemicarbazide (HSC) was inves-tigated, and the separation efficiency of HSC and DMHAN-MMH for U/Pu partitioning in Purex process was compared. The results show that HSC can effectively realize the separation of Pu from U;using mixer-settlers to simulate U/Pu separation in 1B bank of PUREX, from 16-stage counter current extraction experiment (in which 6 stages for supplemental extraction, 10 stages for stripping) with flow rate ratio (1BF:1BX:1BS)=4:1:1 in 1B contactor, good result was achieved that the yields are both more than 99.99%for uranium and Pu, the separation factor of plutonium from uranium (SFPu/U) is 2.8 × 104, and separation factor of uranium from plu-tonium (SFU/Pu) is 5.9 × 104. As a stripping reductant, HSC can effectively achieve the separation of Pu from U and the separation effect is nearly the same with DMHAN-MMH, which contributed to replace enough the latter with HSC in the U/Pu separation in Advanced Purex Process Based on Organic Reagent (APOR) process.
ISSN:1001-8042
DOI:10.13538/j.1001-8042/nst.26.040605