Solubility product of plutonium hydrous oxide and its ionic strength dependence
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K. Fujiwara
Summary
The solubility of PuO2·xH2O was measured at 25°C in a NaClO4 solution containing Na2S2O4 as a reductant. The experiment was carried out by an oversaturation method at I = 1.0 and by an undersaturation method at I = 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0. The concentration of Pu3+ was measured by α-spectrometry and UV/Visible spectrophotometry, and the equilibrium constant of the reaction, PuO2·xH2O + e− = Pu3+ + 4 OH− + (x–2) H2O, was obtained. From the obtained results, the solubility product (Ksp) of PuO2·x H2O, for PuO2·x H2O = Pu4+ + 4 OH− + (x − 2) H2O at I = 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 was determined. By using the specific interaction theory (SIT), the solubility product of PuO2·x H2O at the standard state (I = 0) was determined to be log K°sp = −57.97 ± 0.24, and the ion interaction coefficient ε(Pu4+, ClO4-) was also evaluated to be 0.99 ± 0.20.
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