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Reactions of fission products from a 252Cf source with NO and mixtures of NO and CO in an inert gas

  • Heinz W. Gäggeler , Ilya Usoltsev and Robert Eichler EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: January 17, 2019
Radiochimica Acta
From the journal Radiochimica Acta Volume 107 Issue 7

Abstract

Fission products recoiling from a 252Cf spontaneous fission source were stopped in various mixtures of inert gases containing CO and NO. For the elements of the transisition metal series Mo, Tc, Ru, and Rh previous observations of pure carbonyl complexes were reproduced. However, no formation of volatile mixed nitrosyl-carbonyl complexes or pure nitrosyl complexes for these elements have been observed. Instead, efficient production of volatile nitrosyl compounds for single iodine atoms, presumably nitrosyl iodide, NOI, was detected. This observation is of interest as potential transport path for iodine in nuclear accident scenarios and as a model for radiochemistry with the recently discovered heaviest halogen tennessine (Z=117).

Keywords: Nitrosyl; carbonyl; nitrosyl iodide; fission products; tennessine

Dedicated to: The memory of Professor Günter Herrmann.

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Received: 2018-11-02
Accepted: 2018-12-19
Published Online: 2019-01-17
Published in Print: 2019-07-26

©2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Preface
  3. Günter Herrmann (1925–2017): A tribute to his research and organizational achievements
  4. The research reactor TRIGA Mainz – a strong and versatile neutron source for science and education
  5. Copper-catalyzed click reactions: quantification of retained copper using 64Cu-spiked Cu(I), exemplified for CuAAC reactions on liposomes
  6. Reactions of fission products from a 252Cf source with NO and mixtures of NO and CO in an inert gas
  7. From SRAFAP to ARCA and AIDA – developments and implementation of automated aqueous-phase rapid chemistry apparatuses for heavy actinides and transactinides
  8. Production and study of chemical properties of superheavy elements
  9. Precise ground state properties of the heaviest elements for studies of their atomic and nuclear structure
  10. Modeling the sorption of Np(V) on Na-montmorillonite – effects of pH, ionic strength and CO2
  11. Determination of complex formation constants of neptunium(V) with propionate and lactate in 0.5–2.6 m NaCl solutions at 22–60°C using a solvent extraction technique
  12. Nuclear forensics on uranium fuel pellets
  13. Recent developments in resonance ionization mass spectrometry for ultra-trace analysis of actinide elements
  14. Measurement of the laser resonance ionization efficiency for lutetium
https://doi.org/10.1515/ract-2018-3076
Keywords for this article
Nitrosyl; carbonyl; nitrosyl iodide; fission products; tennessine

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Preface
  3. Günter Herrmann (1925–2017): A tribute to his research and organizational achievements
  4. The research reactor TRIGA Mainz – a strong and versatile neutron source for science and education
  5. Copper-catalyzed click reactions: quantification of retained copper using 64Cu-spiked Cu(I), exemplified for CuAAC reactions on liposomes
  6. Reactions of fission products from a 252Cf source with NO and mixtures of NO and CO in an inert gas
  7. From SRAFAP to ARCA and AIDA – developments and implementation of automated aqueous-phase rapid chemistry apparatuses for heavy actinides and transactinides
  8. Production and study of chemical properties of superheavy elements
  9. Precise ground state properties of the heaviest elements for studies of their atomic and nuclear structure
  10. Modeling the sorption of Np(V) on Na-montmorillonite – effects of pH, ionic strength and CO2
  11. Determination of complex formation constants of neptunium(V) with propionate and lactate in 0.5–2.6 m NaCl solutions at 22–60°C using a solvent extraction technique
  12. Nuclear forensics on uranium fuel pellets
  13. Recent developments in resonance ionization mass spectrometry for ultra-trace analysis of actinide elements
  14. Measurement of the laser resonance ionization efficiency for lutetium
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