Method of removing ruthenium contamination from a liquid radioactive effluent
AssigneeCommissariat a l'Energie Atomique
InventorJean-Paul Gauchon
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Abstract
A method of removing ruthenium contamination from a radioactive liquid effluent, consisting in adding to said liquid effluent a reducing agent and copper ions, to form, in said effluent, a cuprous oxide precipitate on which the ruthenium is fixed, and subsequently separating the precipitate thus formed from the effluent, and an apparatus for performing this method.
Claims8
A method of removing ruthenium contamination from a radioactive liquid effluent, consisting in adding to said liquid effluent a reducing agent and cupric ions, to form, in said effluent, a cuprous oxide precipitate on which the ruthenium is fixed, and subsequently separating the precipitate thus formed from the effluent.
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