The highly radioactive waste which arises from the processing of irradiated fuel is too hot to handle and hence, in current practice, is stored without treatment in underground tanks for hundreds years. Any means which would be able to remove
137Cs, one of the most harmful long half-lived components, from the liquid waste from fuel reprocessing are highly appreciated.
The authors have developed a special solid ion-exchange material of ferrocyanide-bentonite mixture (Ferrocyanide-Exchanger) made by a freezing-thawing method.
This new adsorption material has shown its capability of adsorbing Cs exclusively even from 6
N nitric acid solution containing various other ions, and the authors have succeeded in separating
137Cs from synthetic Purex waste and Zirflex waste with this new material.
80% elution of
137Cs from this ferrocyanide-bentonite exchanger was accomplished by use of silver nitrate solutions.
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