Process for removing technetium from iron and other metals
Description:
Technetium is a radioactive product of the nuclear fission process. During reprocessing of spent or partially spent fuel from nuclear reactors, the technetium can be released and contaminate other, otherwise good, metals. A specific example is equipment in gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment cascades which have been used to process fuel which was returned from reactors, so-called reactor returns. These returns contained volatile technetium compounds which contaminated the metals in the equipme…
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Date:
December 1, 1997
Creator:
Leitnaker, James M. & Trowbridge, Lee D.
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