Molten Salt Corrosion and Its Mitigation for Pyrochemical Reprocessing Applications

Computational study of core modified dipyriamethyrin for the competitive complexation of Am3+/Cm3+ from their trichlorides

“…Generally, the reprocessing technology employed in molten salt reactors is pyrochemical processing, where the final steps of the pyro-process involve the recovery of uranium and/or plutonium along with other actinides (neptunium, americium and curium) as they have similar reduction potentials. 34,35 Following the pyrochemical processing, the minor actinides are partitioned by solvent extraction to reduce radiotoxicity of the transuranic content of the nuclear waste in geological repositories. 36,37 The study of the complexation of actinides with ligands from their trichlorides aims to help understand the competition among the actinides towards a ligand and compare the contributions of the coordination provided by ligand and chloride atoms.…”