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Extraction of Pm-147 from savannah river site nuclear material management programs

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The Savannah River Site (SRS) processes used-nuclear fuel to recover uranium. There are many interesting fission products lost in the raffinate from this separation including 147Pm. The goal of this work was to recover 147Pm from SRS waste solutions. A radiochemical separation method typically used for the determination of 147Pm and 151Sm was modified to purify significant quantities of 147Pm from the H Canyon waste solutions. The developed scheme was tested on a small aliquot of waste solution from the processing of used fuel from the High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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This work was funded by the Savannah River National Laboratory.

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This work was produced by Battelle Savannah River Alliance, LLC under Contract No. 89303321CEM000080 with the U.S. Department of Energy. Publisher acknowledges the U.S. Government license to provide public access under the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

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Fenker, K.M., DiPrete, D.P. Extraction of Pm-147 from savannah river site nuclear material management programs. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 331, 5033–5038 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-022-08558-w

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