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Nuclear Forensic Analysis, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Nuclear Forensic Analysis, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Kenton J. Moody, Patrick M. Grant, Ian D. Hutcheon
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
524 pages
20h 21m
English
CRC Press
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147Engineering Issues
The solubility of reactor fuel (mostly uranium oxide) in nitric acid is less than
500g/L, and the weapons-grade Pu content of the fuel is no more than a few tenths
of a percent of the U. This means that the total chemical-reagent volume used in the
early steps of an aqueous fuel-reprocessing procedure is on the order of 10 L/g ofPu.
Therefore,
impurities
in
the
reagents
introduce
roughly
a
milligram
of
natural
Nd
into the process for each gram of Pu, which is associated with 75 mg of ssion-
product
Nd
(Table
3.2).
Even
if
decontamination
factors
for
Nd
in
the
reprocessing
are
10
8
, approximately 1 ng of the ...
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