Recovery of plutonium and americium from laboratory acidic waste solutions using tri-n-octylamine and octylphenyl-N-N- diisobutylcarbamoylmethylphosphine oxide.
Plutonium from acidic waste solutions has been recovered quantitatively using tri-n-octylamine (TnOA) in xylene and americium using a mixture of octylphenyl-N-N- diisobutylcarbamoylmethylphosphine oxide (CMPO) and TBP in dodecane by extraction and extraction chromatographic methods. The Pu ( IV ) TnOA species extracted into the organic phase from higher nitric acid concentrations has been confirmed as (R(3)NH)(2)Pu(NO(3))(6) (where R(3)N = TnOA by employing slope analysis as well as spectrophotometric studies.
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Fuel Reprocessing Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay 400085, India.
Rizvi
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Mathur
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Kapoor
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Ramanujam
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Iyer
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