Ruthenium speciation in radioactive wastes and state-of-the-art strategies for its recovery: a review

PK Verma, PK Mohapatra - Separation and Purification Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Ruthenium, mainly 106 Ru, is one of the notorious fission products present in the radioactive
wastes. In view of its complex chemistry, it gets partitioned into various processing streams …

Precious metals recovery from aqueous solutions using a new adsorbent material

O Grad, M Ciopec, A Negrea, N Duțeanu, G Vlase… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Platinum group metals (PGMs) palladium, platinum, and ruthenium represent the key
materials for automotive exhaust gas treatment. Since there are no adequate alternatives …

Selective removal and immobilization of cesium from aqueous solution using sludge functionalized with potassium copper hexacyanoferrate: a low-cost adsorbent

AM Soliman, HA Madbouly, ES El Sheikh… - … of Radioanalytical and …, 2021 - Springer
As a typical effective cesium ion removal method, this research presents a facile method of
preparing potassium copper hexacyanoferrate on the surface of sludge created from refinery …

An episode of Ru-106 in air over Europe, September–October 2017–Geographical distribution of inhalation dose over Europe

P Bossew, F Gering, E Petermann, T Hamburger… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Between the end of September and early October 2017, 106 Ru was recorded by air
monitoring stations across parts of Europe. In the environment, this purely anthropogenic …

Identification of a chemical fingerprint linking the undeclared 2017 release of 106Ru to advanced nuclear fuel reprocessing

MW Cooke, A Botti, D Zok… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The undeclared release and subsequent detection of ruthenium-106 (106Ru) across Europe
from late September to early October of 2017 prompted an international effort to ascertain …

Separation of fission produced 106Ru from simulated high level nuclear wastes for production of brachytherapy sources

M Blicharska, B Bartoś, S Krajewski… - Journal of radioanalytical …, 2013 - Springer
An effective and simple process for the isolation of 106 Ru from high-level liquid wastes was
developed. Radioactive ruthenium was oxidized by H 5 IO 6 in HNO 3 solution and was …

Dissolution of spent nuclear fuel samples for analytical purposes

VN Momotov, EA Erin, DE Tikhonova - Radiochemistry, 2022 - Springer
The methods and procedures of dissolution employed in the conduct of radiochemical and
elemental analyzes of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) were overviewed, as well as schemes of …

Feasibility studies on the electrochemical recovery of fission platinoids from high-level liquid waste

M Jayakumar, KA Venkatesan, TG Srinivasan… - … of radioanalytical and …, 2010 - Springer
The electrochemical behavior of ruthenium (III) and rhodium (III) in nitric acid medium has
been studied at platinum and stainless steel electrodes by cyclic voltammetry. The cyclic …

Treatment of 106Ru Present In Intermediate Level Radioactive Liquid Waste With Nickel Sulphide

NL Sonar, PK Mishra, SG Kore… - Separation science …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract 106Ru is one of the major radionuclides of concern in the aqueous radioactive
waste generated during the reprocessing of the spent fuel. Intermediate level radioactive …

Separation and purification of 131I from neutron irradiated tellurium dioxide targets by wet-distillation method

MA El-Absy, MA El-Garhy, MA El-Amir, TW Fasih… - Separation and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Separation and purification of carrier-free 131I by the wet-distillation method from thermal
neutron irradiated tellurium dioxide targets along with their Al wrappers in 8N H2SO4, HNO3 …