Description
Book SynopsisThe growth in the world's nuclear industry, motivated by peaking world oil supplies, concerns about the greenhouse effect, and domestic needs for energy independence, has resulted in a heightened focus on the need for next-generation nuclear fuel-cycle technologies. Ion Exchange and Solvent Extraction: A Series of Advances, Volume 19 provides a comprehensive look at the state of the science underlying solvent extraction in its role as the most powerful separation technique for the reprocessing of commercial spent nuclear fuel.
Capturing the current technology and scientific progress as it exists today and looking ahead to potential developments, the book examines the overall state of solvent extraction in reprocessing, new molecules for increased selectivity and performance, methods for predicting extractant properties, and actinide-lanthanide group separation. The contributors also explore the simultaneous extraction of radionuclides by mixing extract
Table of Contents
Overview of Solvent Extraction Chemistry for Reprocessing. New Developments in Thorium, Uranium, and Plutonium Extraction. Overview of Recent Advances in An(III)/Ln(III) Separation by Solvent Extraction. Extraction of Radioactive Elements by Calixarenes. Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships in Solvent Extraction and Complexation of Metals. Simultaneous Removal of Radionuclides by Extractant Mixtures. Third-phase Formation in Liquid/Liquid Extraction: A Colloidal Approach. Radiolysis of Solvents Used in Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing. Automation of Extraction Chromatographic and Ion Exchange Separations for Radiochemical Analysis and Monitoring. Design Principles and Applications of Centrifugal Contactors for Solvent Extraction. Neoteric Solvents as the Basis of Alternative Approaches to the Separation of Actinides and Fission Products. Index.
