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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 1986
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1983
Volker Schneider, Heusenstamm, DE;
Wolfgang Stoll, Hanau, DE;
Wolf-Gunther Druckenbrodt, Rodenbach, DE;
Alkem GmbH, Hanau, DE;
Abstract
A method for manufacturing Pu.sub.2 -containing crystals by oxidizing plutonium in a heavily contaminated nitric acid starting solution to Pu.sup.6+, precipitating ammonium plutonyl carbonate containing crystals by reaction with ammonium- and carbonate ions and subsequent separating and calcining of these crystals. The nitric acid solution with the oxidized Pu.sup.6+ as well as carbonate and/or acetate ions and NH.sub.3 are dosed into an aqueous starting solution of ammonium carbonate or ammonium acetate in a concentration such that the mol ratio of carbonate and/or acetate ions to the Pu.sup.6+ -ions in the solution is at least 4:1 and plutonium containing carbonato- or acetato complex compounds which remain dissolved in the receiver solution, are formed, while difficult-to-dissolve metal hydroxide compounds are precipitated. Thereupon NH.sub.3 and carbonate ions are added to precipitate the ammonium plutonyl carbonate containing crystals.