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NEI chief executive highlights “unlimited potential” for nuclear in state of the industry address
Korsnick
In the Nuclear Energy Institute’s annual State of the Nuclear Energy Industry report, NEI president and CEO and Maria Korsnick expressed optimism about the nuclear industry and she issued a call to action.
Her address was part of NEI’s Nuclear Energy Policy forum. The forum, being held in Washington, D.C., on May 20 and May 21, brings together industry leaders, policy stakeholders, and clean energy experts to discuss nuclear advocacy. Korsnick’s remarks focused on the private capital flowing into the industry, progress on regulatory reform and new nuclear technology, and how the U.S. is trying to take the lead on the global nuclear stage.
“We are here at an unprecedented time in our industry history,” Korsnick said. “I’m proud to say that the nuclear industry has a future of unlimited potential.”
Yu-Keung Sze, Leonard James Clegg, Andrew Francis Gerwing, George Robert Grant
Nuclear Technology | Volume 56 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 527-534
Technical Paper | Chemical Processing | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A32911
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Oxidation of Pu(III) in tri-n-butyl phosphate solutions containing nitric acid has been studied by ultraviolet/visible spectrophotometry. The concentrations of Pu(IV) and nitrous acid (HNO2), one of the reaction intermediates/products, were monitored. An autocatalytic reaction mechanism is proposed in which a small amount of HNO2 is generated during an induction period. It then catalyzes the reaction by reacting with nitric acid to produce NO2, which oxidizes Pu(III) in the rate-determining step. It is suggested a nitritoplutonium(IV) complex is formed that finally reacts with nitric acid to form more HNO2. Reaction rates, measured under conditions similar to those encountered in a solvent extraction contactor, indicate that the reaction proceeds rapidly at concentrations of HNO3 greater than ∼0.2 M in the organic solutions and it is responsible for plutonium losses often observed in solvent extraction operations.
