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Various flowsheets of actinides recovery with diamides of heterocyclic dicarboxylic acids

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Solvents on the base of diamides of heterocyclic dicarboxylic acids are promising alternatives for studied Grouped ActiNide EXtraction (GANEX) solvents. Advantage of these ligands is the possibility of simultaneous extraction not only of residual uranium and plutonium, but also minor actinides—neptunium, americium and curium. Two flowsheets on the base of diamides of heterocyclic dicarboxylic acids for separation of actinides form acidic solutions were developed, tested in laboratory scale and compared. Both flowsheets allow separation of more than 99.95% of actinides from raffinates with high content of lanthanides.

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This work was partially financially supported by Government of Russian Federation, Grant 074-U01.

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  1. Polymetal, 2, Narodnogo Opolcheniya pr., 198216, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Mikhail Alyapyshev

  2. ITMO University, 49, Kronverksky pr., 197101, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Mikhail Alyapyshev & Vasiliy Babain

  3. ThreeArc Mining Ltd., 5, Stary Tolmachevskiy per., 115184, Moscow, Russia

    Vasiliy Babain

  4. Khlopin Radium Institute, 28, 2nd Murinskiy pr., 194021, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Lyudmila Tkachenko

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Alyapyshev, M., Babain, V. & Tkachenko, L. Various flowsheets of actinides recovery with diamides of heterocyclic dicarboxylic acids. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 312, 47–58 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-017-5194-1

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