Applicability of a model predicting iodine-129 profile in a silver nitrate silica-gel column for dissolver off-gas treatment of fuel reprocessing

Separation Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1981-2001

  Mineo, Hideaki ^a   Gotoh, Minoru ^a   Iizuka, Masaru ^a   Fujisaki, Susumu ^a   Hagiya, Hiromichi ^a   Uchiyama, Gunzo ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; IODINE; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; SILICA GEL; SILVER COMPOUNDS;

LANGMUIR COEFFICIENT;

SEPARATION;

IODINE 129; NUCLEAR FUEL; SILICA GEL; SILVER NITRATE;

DISSOLUTION; IODINE; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENT; PREDICTION MODEL; SILICA GEL;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FUEL REPROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROCESSING;

EID: 0037879079     PISSN: 01496395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/SS-120020130     Document Type: Article

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