This review provides a comprehensive overview of published hydrometallurgical chemical
processes capable of separating americium from curium and the lanthanides. A search for …

The hydrometallurgical separation concepts for the heterogeneous recycling of irradiated
nuclear fuel developed in Europe are presented and discussed. Most of these concepts …

Americium and curium, present in spent nuclear fuel, are carried forward to the high-level
wastes (HLW) upon its reprocessing within the closed nuclear fuel cycle strategy. These …

Develo** chelators that combine high affinity and selectivity for lanthanides and/or
actinides is paramount for numerous industries, including rare earths mining, nuclear waste …

Research on actinide materials, both basic and applied, has been greatly advanced by the
general techniques available from high-intensity photon beams from x-ray synchrotron …

Separation of Am3+ and Cm3+ is one of the most challenging problems in the back-end of
the nuclear fuel cycle. In the present work, we exploited the cooperative effect of the …

In the framework of the R&D program conducted in France on partitioning and transmutation
of minor actinides, a solvent extraction process was developed for separating americium …

In the advanced spent fuel wet reprocessing process, mutual separation of trivalent actinide
ions (An 3+) and lanthanide ions (Ln 3+) is extremely challenging. The development of back …

Across the actinide period, the stability of the trivalent oxidation state predominates in the
heavy actinides, making their chemical nature close to that of rare earth elements. The …