Combined processes for high level radioactive waste separations: UNEX and other extraction processes

Advanced Separation Techniques for Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing and Radioactive Waste Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 229-265

  Romanovskiy, V N ^a   Smirnov, I V ^a   Babain, V A ^a   Yu Shadrin, A ^a  

^a KHLOPIN RADIUM INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chlorinated cobalt dicarbollide; Extraction of actinides; Treatment of radioactive wastes; UNEX process; Waste partitioning

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; CESIUM; COBALT; EXTRACTION; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; WASTE TREATMENT;

CHLORINATED COBALT DICARBOLLIDE; DIPICOLINIC ACIDS; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; EXTRACTION PROCESS; HIGH LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; METHYLAMINE CARBONATE; STRIPPING SOLUTION; VOLUME REDUCTIONS;

SEPARATION;

EID: 84876016727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1533/9780857092274.2.229     Document Type: Chapter

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