Standard and advanced separation: PUREX processes for nuclear fuel reprocessing

Advanced Separation Techniques for Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing and Radioactive Waste Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 141-175

  Herbst, R S ^a   Baron, P ^b   Nilsson, M ^c  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of California Irvine ^*

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Nuclear fuel cycle; Nuclear separations; Plutonium separation; PUREX; Solvent extraction; Tributyl phosphate; Uranium separation

Indexed keywords

FUELS; PLUTONIUM; SEPARATION; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; URANIUM;

BACKGROUND INFORMATION; INDUSTRIAL SCALE; NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLES; PUREX; PUREX PROCESS; REPROCESSING FACILITIES; STATE OF THE ART; TRI-BUTYL PHOSPHATE;

NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING;

EID: 84875742655     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1533/9780857092274.2.141     Document Type: Chapter

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