A thermodynamic model of plutonium (IV) nitrate solutions

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry - Tập 293 - Trang 601-612 - 2012
William L. Kubic1, J. Christopher Jackson1
1Process Modeling and Analysis Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

Tóm tắt

Plutonium nitrate solutions contain a large number of chemical species and they exhibit significant deviations from ideal behavior. Modeling this system is challenging. A model that includes all known chemical species and accounts for nonideal solution behavior could contain several hundred unknown parameters, but insufficient published data exists for evaluating large numbers of parameters. A practical model of plutonium nitrate solutions, therefore, must be a compromise between the number of chemical species included and the number of parameters that can be evaluated from available data. A practical model of acidic plutonium nitrate was developed. The model, which was based on an extended UNIQUAC–Debye–Hückel equation, captures the essential behavior of the system with a minimum number of chemical species. It is capable of representing the vapor–liquid equilibrium data for the nitric acid–water system, the activity of water in the plutonium nitrate-nitric acid–water system, the distribution of plutonium–nitrate complexes in aqueous nitric acid solution, and plutonium adsorption on an anion exchange resin.

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