Technical report showing how, on a laboratory scale, a one-cycle solvent extraction process using tributyl phosphate (TBP) can be used for the recovery and decontamination of uranium 235 from spent Materials Testing Reactor fuel assemblies.

The electrostatically deflected beam of the 184-inch cyclotron has been used with the stacked foil and absorber technique to determine the excitation functions. The data are presented graphically and discussed individually for each of the reactions. The results are discussed in terms of compound nucleus formation, transparency effects, and other factors in order to arrive at a qualitative picture for the mechanism of high energy nuclear reactions with heavy nuclei.