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Studies on the uptake behavior of nickel from flowing sodium for Mn, Co and Zn

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During operation of sodium cooled fast reactors in the absence of fuel pin failure, the radionuclides of radiological concern are 54Mn, 60Co, 58Co and 65Zn which cause activity burden during maintenance of primary components. Experiments were carried out towards development of radionuclide trap using nickel foam and foil which serves as a single trap material to scavenge all the above radionuclides simultaneously in flowing sodium system at various temperatures and duration of time. The uptake behavior of the trap materials at various experimental conditions was estimated using Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy.

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Acknowledgement

The authors express their sincere thanks to Smt. R.Jayashree, G.Saravanan and P.Ravishankar for their co-ordination in carrying out the experiments. The authors thank Dr. Raja Madhavan for XRD, Dr. Arup Das Gupta for SEM / EDX analysis, Dr.A. Sree Rama Murthy for BET and Mr. R. Lavakumar for providing engineering drawing of the bench top loop. The authors acknowledge with thanks Dr. Rajesh Ganesan, Head, MCD for his constant support and valuable suggestions. The authors thank Dr. N. Sivaraman, Director, MC&MFCG for his support and encouragement during the course of the present work.

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  2. Materials Chemistry and Metal Fuel Cycle Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, Tamilnadu, 603102, India

    R. Sudha, S. Maharajan, Dinu Shaji, R. Uma Maheswari & Kitheri Joseph

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Manivannan, A., Sudha, R., Maharajan, S. et al. Studies on the uptake behavior of nickel from flowing sodium for Mn, Co and Zn. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 329, 591–599 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-021-07695-y

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