Efficiency of a Three Inch Higgins Column (open access)

Efficiency of a Three Inch Higgins Column

The following report describes the usage of a semi-continuous ion exchange contactor--named the Higgins contactor--fit to operate the Purex process, a process that recovers plutonium and uranium from irradiated natural uranium fuel elements. It is intended to use the contactor in the final purification and concentration stage of the process plutonium streams.
Date: December 20, 1956
Creator: Vaughan, Victor C.; Jansen, George & Bagley, Raymond O.
System: The UNT Digital Library