Feasibility of Using Di-Dodecyl-Di-Octyl Diglycolamide for Partitioning of Minor Actinides from Fast Reactor High-Level Liquid Waste

Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 424-436

  Ravi, Jammu ^a   Venkatesan, K A ^a   Antony, M P ^a   Srinivasan, T G ^a   Vasudeva Rao, P R ^a  

^a INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

actinide partitioning; diglycolamide; fission product; high level liquid waste; Solvent extraction

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; FAST REACTORS; FISSION PRODUCTS; METAL IONS; NITRIC ACID; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

ACTINIDE-PARTITIONING; DIGLYCOLAMIDE; DISTRIBUTION RATIO; HIGH-LEVEL LIQUID WASTE; NITRIC ACID MEDIUMS; QUANTITATIVE EXTRACTION; TRIVALENT ACTINIDES; TRIVALENT LANTHANIDES;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84899828691     PISSN: 07366299     EISSN: 15322262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07366299.2013.866857     Document Type: Article

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