摘要:
Finely divided, small particle (0.1 micron or less) small crystallite (about 50 A.times.100 A or less) chalcogenides of manganese, rhenium and technetium are described. These compositions are prepared by mixing the absence of an aqueous solvent, a manganese, rhenium or technetium salt with a source of chalcogenide yielding a precipitate. The manganese, rhenium or technetium salt and the source of chalcogen can be mixed either neat or in the presence of a nonaqueous aprotic solvent. The precipitate which results before removal of the anion salt is a finely divided product. In the case of rhenium dichalcogenide the product possesses a layered structure. The anion salt may be removed by any technique common to the art, pumping under vacuum being one such technique, washing with a suitable solvent being another.A method is described for the preparation of di- and poly-chalcogenides of the formula MX.sub.y wherein M is a metal selected from the group consisting of mangangese, rhenium and technetium, X is a chalcogen selected from the group consisting of sulfur, selenium, tellurium and mixtures thereof, and y is a number ranging from about 1.5 to about 4, preferably about 2, comprising the low temperature, nonaqueous precipitation of said MX.sub.y compounds from mixtures of the salts of said manganese, rhenium and technetium. Said precipitation occurs in the absence of aqueous solvents. The process of the instant invention permits the preparation of materials uncontaminated by water, oxygen or hydrolysis products.
摘要:
A method is provided for purifying actinides which are present in a low oxidation state in aqueous solution. The actinides are purified of fission products by extracting the actinides from aqueous solution while confining the fission products to the aqueous solution. The actinides that are purified are selected from the group of uranium (IV), neptunium (IV) and plutonium (III). An aqueous nitric acid solution containing the actinides, hydrazine nitrate or hydroxyl ammonium nitrate, as well as fission products is initially subjected to an electrolysis voltage. If Pu (III) is involved, the electrolysis voltage is below the voltage at which oxygen develops at the anode and anodically oxidizes the Pu (III) to Pu (IV). The Pu (IV) which is formed is transferred by means of an organic extraction agent from the aqueous solution to an organic phase. The organic phase is then separated and used for the plutonium recovery process. If U (IV) and/or Np (IV) are involved, the aqueous nitric acid solution is initially subjected to an electrolysis voltage in the vicinity of the voltage at which oxygen develops at the anode or higher to anodically oxidize the U (IV) to U (VI) and the Np (IV) to Np (VI). The U (VI) and/or Np (VI) which is formed is transferred by means of an organic extraction agent from the aqueous phase to the organic phase. The organic phase is then separated and used for the uranium or neptunium recovery process.
摘要:
An actinide dioxide, e.g. uranium dioxide, is prepared by reacting an actinide nitrate or hydrate or tetrahydrofuranate thereof, e.g. uranyl nitrate, a hydrate of uranyl nitrate or a tetrahydrofuranate of uranyl nitrate with an alkali or alkaline earth metal adduct of a monocyclic or polycyclic hydrocarbon in the presence of an inert organic solvent. Typically, the starting material may be uranyl nitrate dihydrate or uranyl nitrate ditetrahydrofuranate (the latter material is a novel composition of matter) with a reactant such as the sodium adduct of naphthalene in the presence of a solvent such as tetrahydrofuran. The resultant uranium dioxide may be further purified by heating it in the presence of hydrogen.
摘要:
Apparatus and method for providing larger quantities of higher purity polonium suitable, as vapor distilled, for heat source elements for radioisotopic generators or the like.
摘要:
1. IN A METHOD FOR RECOVERING PALLADIUM, TECHNETIUM, AND RHODIUM AND RUTHENIUM VALUES FROM AN AQUEOUS ACID FEED SOLUTION CONTAINING THESE AND OTHER VALUES AND FROM EACH OTHER COMPRISING: CONTACTING THE FEED SOLUTION WITH A FIRST BED OF CARBON, SAID BED HAVING ABSORBED THEREON DIMETHYLGLYOXIME, WHEREBY ONLY THE PALLADIUM IS CHELATED AND IS RETAINED ON THE FIRST BED, CONTACTING THE FEED SOLUTION WITH A SECOND BED OF CARBON, SAID SECOND BED HAVING ADSORBED THEREON A CHELATING AGENT SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF DIACETYL DITHIOL AND DIACETYLTOLUENE-3,4-DITIOL, WHEREBY ONLY TECHNETIUM IS CHELATED AND REMAINS ON THE BED, CONTACTING THE FEED SOLUTION WITH A THIRD BED OF CARBON, SAID BED HAVING ADSORBED THEREON A CHELATING AGENT SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF 8-MERCAPTOQUINOLINE AND PHENYLTHIOUREA, WHEREBY ONLY THE RHODIUM AND RUTHENIUM ARE CHELATED AND REMAIN ON THE BED, AND RECOVERING THE VALUES FROM THE CARBON BEDS.
摘要:
A PROCESS FOR SEPARATING THE ELEMENTS OF THE LANTHANIDE RARE-EARTH GROUP AND THE ELEMENTS OF THE TRANSPLUTONIUM GROUP WHICH ARE PRESENT IN AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION. THE PROCESS COMPRISES ADDDING NITRATE IONS AND AN ALCOHOL TO THE SOLUTION TO BE TREATED, PASSING THE SOLUTION THROUGH AN ANION-EXCHANGE RESIN ON WHICH THE ELEMENTS TO BE SEPARATED ARE ADSORBED, ELUTING THE RESIN WITH A SOLUTION WHICH CONTAINS NITRATE IONS, AN ALCOHOL AND A COMPLEXING AGENT CONSISTING OF AN ETHYLENEAMINOACETIC ACID.