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APPLIED RADIATION AND ISOTOPES
Volume 137, Issue -, Pages 177-183Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2018.04.008
Keywords
High-level radioactive waste; UTEVA; TBP; Uranium; Thorium
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- ENRESA [0079000237]
- Spanish State Program R + D +I oriented societal challenges
- FEDER [MAT2015-63929-R]
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The development of Deep Geological Repositories (DGP) to the storage of high-level radioactive waste (HLRW) is mainly focused in systems of multiple barriers based on the use of clays, and particularly bentonites, as natural and engineered barriers in nuclear waste isolation due to their remarkable properties. Due to the fact that uranium is the major component of HLRW, it is required to go in depth in the analysis of the chemistry of the reaction of this element within bentonites. The determination of uranium under the conditions of HLRW, including the analysis of silicate matrices before and after the uranium-bentonite reaction, was investigated. The performances of a state-of-the-art and widespread radiochemical method based on chromatographic UTEVA resins, and a well-known and traditional method based on solvent extraction with tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP), for the analysis of uranium and thorium isotopes in solid matrices with high concentrations of uranium were analysed in detail. In the development of this comparison, both radiochemical approaches have an overall excellent performance in order to analyse uranium concentration in HLRW samples. However, due to the high uranium concentration in the samples, the chromatographic resin is not able to avoid completely the uranium contamination in the thorium fraction.
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