Studies have been carried out on removal of americium from the effluent generated during anion exchange purification of plutonium. Americium 241, generated by the beta decay of Plutonium-241, is the major source of 伪 activity in this highly acidic effluent and its removal would render the waste...
241Am 9,66E-03 16,33 432 years 242Cm 1,73E-03 2,93 162 days Total 5,92E-02 1,00E + 00 Considering this, it is necessary to study the formation route of these nuclei, as it is done below in equation (1). It is thus possible to split the contribution to decay heat de...