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Extraction and extraction chromatographic separation of minor actinides from sulphate bearing high level waste solutions using CMPO

Publication Type : Journal Article

Thematic Areas : Biotech

Publisher : Akadémiai Kiadó, co-published with Springer Science+ Business Media BV, Formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers

Source : Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry, Akadémiai Kiadó, co-published with Springer Science+ Business Media BV, Formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers BV, Volume 191, Number 2, p.279–289 (1995)

Url : http://www.akademiai.com/doi/abs/10.1007/BF02038224

Campus : Amritapuri

School : School of Biotechnology

Center : Biotechnology, Phytochemistry Labs, Sanitation Biotechnology

Department : biotechnology

Year : 1995

Abstract : Bench-Scale studies on the partitioning and recovery of minoractinides from the actual and synthetic sulphate-bearing high level waste (SBHLW) solutions have been carried out by giving two contacts with 30% TBP to deplete uranium content followed by four contacts with 0.2M CMPO+1.2M TBP in dodecane. The acidity of the SBHLW solutions was about 0.3M. In the case of actual SBHLW, the final raffinate contained about 0.4% -activity originally present in the HLW, whereas with synthetic SBHLW the -activity was reduced to the background level.144Ce is extracted almost quantitative in the CMPO phase,106Ru about 12% and137Cs is practically not extracted at all. The extraction chromatographic column studies with synthetic SBHLW (aftertwo TBP contacts) has shown that large volume of waste solutions could be passed through the column without break-through of actinide metal ions. Using 0.04M HNO399% Am(III) and rare earths could be eluted/stripped. Similarly 99% Pu(IV) and U(VI) could be eluted.stripped using 0.01M oxalic acid and 0.25M sodium carbonate, respectively. In the presence of 0.16M SO 4 2– (in the SBHLW) the complex ions AmSO 4 + , UO2SO4, PuSO 4 2+ and Pu(SO4)2 were formed in the aqueous phase but the species extracted into the organic phase (CMPO+TBP) were only the nitrato complexes Am(NO3)3·3CMPO, UO2(NO3)2·2CMPO and Pu(NO3)4·2CMPO. A scheme for the recovery of minor actinides from SBHLW solution with two contacts of 30% TBP followed by either solvent extraction or extraction chromatographic techniques has been proposed.

Cite this Research Publication : V. Gopalakrishnan, Dhami, P., Ramanujam, A., Krishna, M., Murali, M., Mathur, J., Iyer, R., Bauri, A., and Banerji, A., “Extraction and extraction chromatographic separation of minor actinides from sulphate bearing high level waste solutions using CMPO”, Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry, vol. 191, pp. 279–289, 1995.

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