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DOE, General Matter team up for new fuel mission at Hanford
The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (EM) on Tuesday announced a partnership with California-based nuclear fuel company General Matter for the potential use of the long-idle Fuels and Materials Examination Facility (FMEF) at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
According to the announcement, the DOE and General Matter have signed a lease to explore the FMEF's potential to be used for advanced nuclear fuel cycle technologies and materials, in part to help satisfy the predicted future requirements of artificial intelligence.
A. Chesné, G. Koehly, A. Bathellier
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 17 | Number 4 | December 1963 | Pages 557-565
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A18448
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Trilaurylamine nitrate diluted in dodecane is considered as an extracting agent for plutonium. The use of this solvent is proposed for a tail-end plutonium recovery from irradiated uranium solutions which have already been purified by one or more TBP cycles. Mention is made of general properties of the solvent. The study of the stripping of plutonium is emphasized. The first choice stripping solution is a mixture of sulfuric and nitric acid which gives a final concentrated and purified Pu4+ solution. Some alternative purification flowsheets are given. They show that a decontamination factor of 104 can be attained for Zr-Nb and uranium. Kinetics of the extraction and radiolytic degradation of the solvent are briefly discussed.