Adsorption from liquid metals: an approach for recovery of radionuclides from irradiated targets
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Boris Zhuikov
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Stanislav Ermolaev
Abstract
Adsorption of radionuclides in no-carrier-added (NCA) amounts from liquid metals оf Rb, Pb, and Ag was investigated. 82Sr may be recovered from metallic irradiated Rb-target via adsorption onto various surfaces. A high chemical yield is achieved at Sr-sorption from molten Rb of big mass directly onto the inner surface of the target shell at about 300 °C. The investigation showed that the formation and dissolution of oxide sol particles of rubidium oxide, where 82Sr is initially adsorbed in SrO form, play an important role in the mechanism of adsorption. The approach is prospective for different modes in “off-line” and “on-line” 82Sr production. Direct sorption of different NCA radionuclides from molten Pb and Ag was also investigated. Chemical nature of the surface (Ta, Ni, Ti, Mo, Al, or quartz) is very critical for sorption of 188,189Ir, 188Pt,198Au,97Ru,185Os,182mRe,99Mo and 99mTc from molten Pb, and for sorption of 100Pd,101mRh,97Ru, 96Tc from molten Ag.
Acknowledgments
The authors are thankful to V.M. Kokhanyuk, Yu.G. Gabrielyants (INR RAS) and J. Vincent (TRIUMF, Canada) for their important help in the experiments, A. Skasyrskaya for assistance in ANSYS calculations, F. Haddad and other colleagues from GIP ARRONAX (France) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA) for fruitful discussions and support.
Author contribution: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.
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