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Application of supercritical CO2 extraction technology in spent nuclear fuel reprocessing
Supercritical fluid extraction technology for metal complexes is a novel and green technology for extracting lanthanides and actinides from...
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Radioanalytical methods for sequential analysis of actinide isotopes in activated carbon filter-bed waste
In this work, we compare methods for the sequential determination of U and the transuranium elements Np, Pu, Am, and Cm. The chemical yield, the time...
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Advances in Land, Underground, and Ocean Disposal Techniques
This chapter provides detailed information on the different methods available for the disposal of hazardous waste. Emphasis has been made on... -
Metallic Technetium, Corrosion, Technetium Alloys and Its Behavior in Spent Nuclear Fuel
Electrochemical studies on the technetium as a radioactive waste component focus on several aspects related to the waste immobilization and recycling. -
Behaviour of ruthenium in nitric media (HLLW) in reprocessing plants: a review and some perspectives
The reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel produces high level liquid waste (HLLW). Due to the decay heat, the concentrated nitric solutions containing...
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Transforming Agri-Crop Residue Biomass for Value Addition: An Innovative Strategy Toward Resilient Circular Economy
Cereal straws, such as barley straw, wheat straw, maize, corncobs, corn stove, miscanthus, rice straw, sugarcane bagasse, manure, seaweeds and algae,... -
Thermal Plasma Treatment of Medical Waste
The harmless treatments of medical waste have significantly drawn people’s attention owing to their risks to health-care staff, the public, and the...
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Effect of Characteristics of Magnesium Oxide Powder on Composition and Strength of Magnesium Potassium Phosphate Compound for Solidifying Radioactive Waste
Phase composition, particle morphology, and granulometric composition of commercial samples of MgO powders of various chemical purities...
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Solidification of LiCl–Li2O oxide reduction salt into sodalite by a spark plasma sintering
The waste LiCl–Li 2 O oxide reduction salt was solidified and transformed into sodalite by the spark plasma sintering method. Compared with traditional...
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K.V. Chmutov’s Legacy in Develo** the Fundamental Concepts of the Radioactive Elements Chromatography
AbstractA review is presented of the work performed from the early 1950s to the present at the Laboratory of Radioelement Chromatography of the USSR...
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Comparative Analysis of UN and UO2 Oxidation in Air and Nitrogen Hemioxide
AbstractOxidation of UO 2 and UN by atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen hemioxide, which is a hard-to-localize greenhouse gas, was investigated by...
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Vitrified Municipal Waste for the Immobilization of Radioactive Waste: Preparation and Characterization of Borosilicate Glasses Modified with Metal Oxides
Municipal solid waste is used as a raw material for the production of borosilicate glasses by melting annealing technique. Many chemical and physical...
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Adsorption and separation effects of typical metal nuclides on the WS2 surface: a DFT study
The fission products brought about by the growth of nuclear energy is increasing, and their radioactivity will seriously jeopardize human health and...
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Acidophilic microorganisms in remediation of contaminants present in extremely acidic conditions
Acidophiles are a group of microorganisms that thrive in acidic environments where pH level is far below the neutral value 7.0. They belong to a...
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The study on distribution coefficient of polonium between tri-octylphosphine oxide (TOPO) and tri-butylphosphate (TBP) in toluene and cyclohexane and selected inorganic acids
In this work the distribution coefficients (D) of polonium between 0.1 mol dm −3 TOPO/toluene; TOPO/cyclohexane; TBP/toluene and TBP/cyclohexane and...
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A Thermodynamic Model for Nd(III)–Sulfate Interaction at High Ionic Strengths and Elevated Temperatures: Applications to Rare Earth Element Extraction
Neodymium (Nd), a rare earth element (REE), is critical to numerous industries. Neodymium can be extracted from ore concentrates, waste materials, or...
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Preparation of C30 concrete and its adsorption performance for Cs(I)
The preparation of C 30 concrete for a cavernous waste repository under construction in China and its Cs(I) adsorption performance were investigated....
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Remediation of Cs-134 from liquid solution by synthesized poly(vinyl alcohol-acrylamide) blended with CuO nanoparticles
Treatment of liquid waste solution containing long-lived isotopes like Cs-134 isotopes is very important environmentally. In this investigation, CuO...
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Intercomparison exercise on difficult to measure radionuclides in spent ion exchange resin
A need for method validation in radiochemical analyses of decommissioning waste is a challenging task due to lack of commercial reference materials....
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Sorption of Cesium from Strongly Alkaline Solutions on a Modified Ferrocyanide Sorbent Fersal
AbstractThe sorption of cesium from solutions of sodium and potassium nitrates, sodium hydroxide, and also from a model solution simulating alkaline...