Separation of Actinides and REEs Using TODGA in Meta-Nitrobenzotrifluoride: Development and Demonstration of Flowsheet

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Abstract

A process was developed for the extraction and separation of actinides and REEs from PUREX process raffinates using TODGA in meta-nitrobenzotrifluoride (F-3). The proposed flowsheet was tested under dynamic conditions using simulated raffinates of the PUREX process. The scheme includes joint extraction of actinides and REE, nitric acid stripping, actinide stripping, and REE stripping. The conditions of selective MA stripping by DTPA solution in the presence of a salting-out agent were determined.

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L. I. Tkachenko

Khlopin Radium Institute

Email: mikkaly@gmail.com
2-i Murinskii pr. 28, St. Petersburg, 194021 Russia

E. V. Kenf

Khlopin Radium Institute

Email: mikkaly@gmail.com
2-i Murinskii pr. 28, St. Petersburg, 194021 Russia

V. A. Babain

Khlopin Radium Institute

Email: mikkaly@gmail.com
2-i Murinskii pr. 28, St. Petersburg, 194021 Russia

M. Y. Alyapyshev

AO Polymetal Engineering

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Email: mikkaly@gmail.com
pr. Narodnogo Opolcheniya 2, St. Petersburg, 198216 Russia

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