The Chemistry of the Reaction of Uranium Hexafluoride With Activated Carbon

Abstract

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Quantitative Recovery of Uranium Hexafluoride from a Process Gas Stream

“…Commercial activated carbon, which normally contains an appreciable quantity of adsorbed water, traps uranium hexafluoride both by hydrolysis to uranyl fluoride and reduction to lower fluorides, such as UF4, U4F17, U2F9, and UF5, with formation of fluorocarbons ranging from CF4 to a waxlike material (37). The capacity for uranium is high; uranium concentration in the spent reagent is as much as 50% by weight.…”