Nuclear Fuel Cycle: A Chemistry Conference

13:30 - 13:45 (15min)

Conference Connection

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13:45 - 14:00 (15min)

Welcome Address

14:00 - 14:40 (40min)

Keynote

Chair : Hitos Galan Montano (CIEMAT) & Andreas Wilden (FZJ)

› Recovery of Strategic High-Value Fission Products from Spent Nuclear Fuel during Reprocessing - Alistair Holdsworth, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Sciences [Manchester] 14:00-14:30 (30min)

14:40 - 16:00 (1h20)

Actinide separation

Chair : Hitos Galan Montano (CIEMAT) & Andreas Wilden (FZJ)

› A new approach for monitoring radionuclides in hydrometallurgical separation processes based on Raman spectroscopy - Laura Bonales, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas [Madrid] 14:40-14:55 (15min)

› A new unsymmetrical diglycolamide for selective americium partitioning - Filip Kolesar, Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN) 15:00-15:15 (15min)

› Population balance solution in the context of the actinides oxalic precipitation - Camilo RUIZ, CEA, DES, ISEC, DMRC, Univ Montpellier, Marcoule, France 15:20-15:35 (15min)

› Preliminary extraction and characterization studies of water-soluble BTP-(COOH)8 for the separation of trivalent actinides - Laura Diaz Gomez, Forschungszentrum Jülich 15:40-15:55 (15min)

16:00 - 16:20 (20min)

Break

16:20 - 18:00 (1h40)

Actinide and fission product chemistry

Chair: Jean Aupias (CEA)

› From Water-Soluble Peroxo Complexe of Plutonium(IV) to Solid State Plutonium peroxide - Julien Margate, CEA 16:20-16:35 (15min)

› Crystallization of Tri- and Tetravalent Plutonium Diglycolamides - Brian Rotermund, Colorado School of Mines, Idaho National Laboratory 16:40-16:55 (15min)

› Reactivity of actinides mono-cations with NH3 in the gas phase - Mathilde GOUJET, CEA, DES, ISEC, DMRC, Univ. Montpellier, Marcoule, France 17:00-17:15 (15min)

› Synthesis and Solid-State NMR of Actinide Halides - Nicolas Capra, Los Alamos National Laboratory 17:20-17:35 (15min)

› Volatile fission products in actinide oxides: A first-principles study - Mathieu Gascoin, CEA, DES, IRESNE, DEC, Cadarache 17:40-17:55 (15min)