Extraction Behavior of Americium and Curium on Selected Extraction Chromatography Resins from Pure Acidic Matrices

Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 391-407

  Gharibyan, Narek ^a   Dailey, Ashlee ^a   McLain, Derek R ^a   Bond, Evelyn M ^b   Moody, Walter A ^b   Happel, Steffen ^c   Sudowe, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TrisKem International   (France)

Author keywords

americium; characterization; curium; extraction chromatography; separation

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; AMERICIUM; CHARACTERIZATION; CURIUM; EXTRACTION; RESINS; SEPARATION;

EXTRACTION CHROMATOGRAPHY; EXTRACTION PROPERTIES; TRIVALENT ACTINIDES;

CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 84899813464     PISSN: 07366299     EISSN: 15322262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07366299.2014.884888     Document Type: Article

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