Development of pyrometallurgical partitioning of actinides from high-level radioactive waste using a reductive extraction step

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 114-120

  Hijikata, Takatoshi ^a   Sakata, Masahiro ^a   Miyashiro, Hajime ^a   Kinoshita, Kensuke ^a   Higashi, Tatsuhiro ^a   Tamai, Tadaharu ^b  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distribution coefficients; Pyrometallurgical partitioning process; Reductive extraction

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; LIQUID METALS; LITHIUM; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; PYROMETALLURGY; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOISOTOPES; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SPENT FUELS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ELECTROREFINING; PYROMETALLURGICAL PARTITIONING PROCESS; REDUCTIVE EXTRACTION;

ACTINIDES;

EID: 0030196911     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/nt96-a35280     Document Type: Article

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