Development of a New Flowsheet for Co-Separating the Transuranic Actinides: The "EURO-GANEX" Process

Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 447-467

  Carrott, Michael ^a   Bell, Katie ^a   Brown, Jamie ^a   Geist, Andreas ^b   Gregson, Colin ^a   Hères, Xavier ^c   Maher, Chris ^a   Malmbeck, Rikard ^d   Mason, Chris ^a   Modolo, Giuseppe ^e   Müllich, Udo ^b   Sarsfield, Mark ^a   Wilden, Andreas ^e   Taylor, Robin ^a  

^a NATIONAL NUCLEAR LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c DIF   (France)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

BTP; DMDOHEMA; GANEX; minor actinides; plutonium; reprocessing; TODGA

Indexed keywords

FAST REACTORS; FISSION PRODUCTS; FLOWCHARTING; NEPTUNIUM; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; NUCLEAR FUELS; PLUTONIUM; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SCRAP METAL REPROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BTP; DMDOHEMA; GANEX; MINOR ACTINIDE; TODGA;

ACTINIDES;

EID: 84902837302     PISSN: 07366299     EISSN: 15322262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07366299.2014.896580     Document Type: Article

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