Titre du document / Document title
Promising pyrochemical actinide/lanthanide separation processes using aluminum
Auteur(s) / Author(s)
CONOCAR Olivier (1) ;
DOUYERE Nicolas (1) ;
GLATZ Jean-Paul (2) ;
LACQUEMENT Jérome (1) ;
MALMBECK Rikard (2) ;
SERP Jérome (2) ;
Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)
(1) Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Valrhô-Marcoule, DEN/DRCP/SCPS/LPP Bât. 399, BP17171, 30207 Bagnols-sur-Cèze, FRANCE
(2) European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Transuranium Elements P.O. Box 2340, 76125, Karlsruhe, ALLEMAGNE
Résumé / Abstract
Thermodynamic calculations have shown that aluminum is the most promising metallic solvent or support for the separation ofactinides (An) from lanthanides (Ln). In molten fluoride salt, the technique of reductive extraction is under development in which the separation is based on different distributions of An and Ln between the salt and metallic Al phases. In this process molten aluminum alloy acts as both a reductant and a solvent into which the actinides are selectively extracted. It was demonstrated that a one-stage reductive extraction process, using a concentrated solution, allows a recovery of more than 99.3% of Pu and Am. In addition excellent separation factors between Pu and Ln well above 10
3 were obtained. In molten chloride media similar separations are developed by constant current electrorefining between a metallic alloy fuel (U
60Pu
20-Zr
10Am
2Nd
3.5Y
0.5Ce
0.5Gd
0.5) and an Al solid cathode. In a series of demonstration experiments, almost 25 g of metallic fuel was reprocessed and actinides collected as An-Al alloys on the cathode. Analysis of the An-Al deposits confirmed that an excellent An/Ln separation (An/Ln mass ratio = 2400) had been obtained. These results show that Al is a very promising material to be used in pyrochemical reprocessing of actinides.
Revue / Journal Title
Nuclear science and engineering
ISSN
0029-5639
CODEN NSENAO
Source / Source
Congrès
Conference Atalante 2004, Nîmes
, FRANCE
(21/06/2004)
2006, vol. 153, n
o 3 (109 p.) [Document : 9 p.] (25 ref.), pp. 253-261 [9 page(s) (article)]
Langue / Language
Anglais
Editeur / Publisher
American Nuclear Society, La Grange Park, IL, ETATS-UNIS
(1956)
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Localisation / Location
INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 8020, 35400013898623.0060
Nº notice refdoc (ud4) : 18022762
