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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 1982
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01F / ; C01G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
423 20 ; 423 11 ; 423 18 ; 423251 ; 252627 ;
Abstract
A method of accelerating and increasing the solubility in nitric acid of plutonium dioxide and uranium/plutonium oxide fuels and insoluble residues from such nitric acid dissolution, includes the steps of arranging metal loadings to be at least 200 g (Pu) or (U+Pu) per liter of dissolving solution so that the plutonium in solution acts as an autocatalyst.