Chemistry of diglycolamides: promising extractants for actinide partitioning

SA Ansari, P Pathak, PK Mohapatra… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The high level waste (HLW) generated during spent nuclear fuel reprocessing contains
unextracted U, Pu, a bulk of minor actinides such as Am, Np, Cm, and a host of fission …

Complexation and Extraction of Trivalent Actinides and Lanthanides by Triazinylpyridine N-Donor Ligands

PJ Panak, A Geist - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
The transuranium elements (TRU) neptunium, plutonium, americium, and curium are
produced in nuclear fuel during reactor operation from neutron capture by uranium-235/238 …

Use of soft heterocyclic N-donor ligands to separate actinides and lanthanides

MJ Hudson, LM Harwood, DM Laventine… - Inorganic …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The removal of the most long-lived radiotoxic elements from used nuclear fuel, minor
actinides, is foreseen as an essential step toward increasing the public acceptance of …

Separation of trivalent actinides and lanthanides using various 'N','S'and mixed 'N, O'donor ligands: a review

A Bhattacharyya, PK Mohapatra - Radiochimica Acta, 2019 - degruyter.com
Separation of trivalent actinide (An) and lanthanide (Ln) elements is one of the burning
topics in the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle due to the similarity in their chemical …

Applications of diglycolamide based solvent extraction processes in spent nuclear fuel reprocessing, part 1: TODGA

D Whittaker, A Geist, G Modolo, R Taylor… - … Extraction and Ion …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last decade there has been much interest in the applications of diglycolamide
(DGA) ligands for the extraction of the trivalent lanthanide and actinide ions from PUREX …

An overview of solvent extraction processes developed in Europe for advanced nuclear fuel recycling, part 1—heterogeneous recycling

A Geist, JM Adnet, S Bourg, C Ekberg… - Separation science …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The hydrometallurgical separation concepts for the heterogeneous recycling of irradiated
nuclear fuel developed in Europe are presented and discussed. Most of these concepts …

An overview of solvent extraction processes developed in Europe for advanced nuclear fuel recycling, Part 2—homogeneous recycling

T Lyseid Authen, JM Adnet, S Bourg… - Separation science …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The hydrometallurgical separation concepts for the recycling of irradiated nuclear fuels
developed in Europe are presented and discussed. Whilst Part 1 of the review focused on …

Influence of a N-heterocyclic core on the binding capability of N, O-Hybrid diamide ligands toward trivalent lanthanides and actinides

R Meng, L Xu, X Yang, M Sun, C Xu… - Inorganic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
N, O-hybrid diamide ligands with N-heterocyclic skeletons are one of the promising
extractants for the selective separation of actinides over lanthanides in a highly acidic HNO3 …

Process intensification of element extraction using centrifugal contactors in the nuclear fuel cycle

A Baker, A Fells, MJ Carrott, CJ Maher… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
This review focuses on consolidating solvent extraction performed in the process
intensification equipment known as Centrifugal Contactors (CCs), implemented in Spent …

BTBPs versus BTPhens: some reasons for their differences in properties concerning the partitioning of minor actinides and the advantages of BTPhens

FW Lewis, LM Harwood, MJ Hudson… - Inorganic …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Two members of the tetradentate N-donor ligand families 6, 6′-bis (1, 2, 4-triazin-3-yl)-2,
2′-bipyridine (BTBP) and 2, 9-bis (1, 2, 4-triazin-3-yl)-1, 10-phenanthroline (BTPhen) …