Authors: Stephen P Mezyk Bruce J Mincher Christian Ekberg Gunnar Skarnemark
Publish Date: 2012/08/17
Volume: 296, Issue: 2, Pages: 711-715
Abstract
The separation of the minor actinides from dissolved nuclear fuel remains a major challenge in developing largescale waste separations processes One important criterion is that all these processes must be robust under high acidity and radiation dose conditions Here we have investigated the TRUEX ligand CMPO in dodecane comparing the effects of gamma 60Co with alpha irradiation using isotopic alpha sources 244Cm 211At The radiolyticallybased CMPO decomposition efficiencies are approximately the same for both types of radiolysis with the overall decomposition being significantly less when this formulation is irradiated in contact with aqueous acid
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