A Facility for Chemical Separation of Pu238 (open access)

A Facility for Chemical Separation of Pu238

Technical report. From Abstract : "A facility for separation of Pu238 and Np237 from irradiated neptunium dioxide target slugs was designed, constructed, and operated at the Savannah River Laboratory. This report describes the facility and includes design details of equipment." From Summary : "The main problems encountered during the design of the facility were: (1) to provide adequate containment and shielding of the radioactive materials, (2) to select chemical- and radiator-resistant materials, and (3) to provide for remote operation and maintenance of process equipment. ... This report contains a discussion of the major design problems and a detailed description of the facility and equipment."
Date: August 1962
Creator: Coogler, Arthur L. & Fowler, Bill F.
System: The UNT Digital Library