Separations for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle in the 21st Century

Content: Current Trends and Direction to the Future; 1. Significance of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle in the 21st Century; 2. Twenty-first Century Approaches to Actinide Partitioning; 3. Advanced Separation Technologies for Processing Spent Nuclear Fuel and the Potential Benefits to a Geologic Repository; 4. Reprocessing Spent Nuclear Fuel with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide; Aqueous Processing; 5. Dissolution of Irradiated Nuclear Fuel from the Big Rock Point Reactor; 6. Advanced PUREX Flowsheets for Future Np and Pu Fuel Cycle Cemands; 7. Haze Formation and Behavior in Liquid-Liquid Extraction Processes; 8. Comparison of Uranyl Third Phase Formation in 30% TBP/Nitric Acid in Dodecane and HPT Using UV-Visible Spectroscopy; 9. A New Interpretation of Third Phase Formation in the Solvent Extraction of Actinides by TBP; 10. The Interaction of Ammonium Carbamate with Uranyl and Molybdenum Containing Species Derived from PUREX Processing; 11. Plutonium Peroxide; 12. Crystallization of Uranium Complexes for Partitioning of Spent Nuclear Fuel; Emerging Separations Systems; 13. Potential Application of Klaui Ligands in Actinide Separations; 14. Actinide, Lanthanide and Fission Product Speciation and Electrochemistry in Ionic Melts; 15. Application of Ionic Liquids in Actinide and Fission Product Separations: Progress and Prospects; Actinide/Lanthanide Separations; 16. Use of Cyanex-301 for Separation of Am/Cm From Lanthanides in an Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycle; 17. Extraction Separation of Am(III) and Eu(III) with TPEN Isomers and Decanoic Acid; Solution-Solid Interactions; 18. The Influence of Simple Erganic Ligands on the Partitioning Mechanism of Trivalent Lanthanum to Goethite; 19. Neptunium Association with Selected Uranyl Phases Anticipated in the Yucca Mountain Repository; 20. Speciation and Solubility Modeling of Actinides in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant