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Decomposition of hydroxylamine in HNO3 solutions containing 350 to 920 g l−1 U(VI) was studied. In the absence of fission and corrosion products (Zr, Pd, Tc, Mo, Fe, etc.), hydroxylamine is stable for no less than 6 h at [HNO3] < 1 M and 60°C. In the presence of these products, the stability of hydroxylamine appreciably decreases. The reduction of Pu(IV) and Np(VI) with hydroxylamine in aqueous 0.33 and 0.5 M HNO3 solutions containing 850 g l−1 U(VI) and fission and corrosion products at 60°C was studied. Np(VI) is rapidly reduced to Np(V), after which Np(V) is partially reduced to Np(IV). The rate of the latter reaction in such solutions is considerably higher than the rate of the Np(V) reduction with hydroxylamine in HNO3 solutions without U(VI). At [HNO3] = 0.33 M, the use of hydroxylamine results in the conversion of Pu to Pu(III) and of Np to a Np(IV,V) mixture, whereas at [HNO3] = 0.5 M the final products are Pu(IV) and Np(V).
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Original Russian Text © V.I. Marchenko, K.N. Dvoeglazov, O.A. Savilova, V.I. Volk, 2012, published in Radiokhimiya, 2012, Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 422–427.
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Marchenko, V.I., Dvoeglazov, K.N., Savilova, O.A. et al. Reduction of Pu(IV) and Np(VI) with hydroxylamine in solutions of low acidity with high uranium content. Radiochemistry 54, 459–464 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1066362212050074
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