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ANS sends waste policy recommendations to DOE
The American Nuclear Society has sent a letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright with a set of recommendations for the Department of Energy to take to establish an effective national program to manage the storage, reprocessing, and final disposal of U.S. commercial used nuclear fuel.
K. Venugopal Chetty, P. M. Mapara, A. G. Godbole, Rajendra Swarup
Nuclear Technology | Volume 127 | Number 2 | August 1999 | Pages 233-237
Technical Note | Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT99-A2998
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An electrocatalyzed process has been described for the dissolution of plutonium from the contaminated neoprene gauntlets used during the fabrication of plutonium-bearing fuels. Agents Ag(II) and Ce(IV) were used as catalysts. The results indicated that it was possible to leach out plutonium satisfactorily from such contaminated neoprene gauntlets. The problems involved in processing with Ag(II) and the limitations of the process are also discussed. Further, plutonium was separated from the leached solution by solvent extraction using di-2-ethylhexyl phosphoric acid as the extractant.
