Abstract
Preferential leaching of Sr from irradiated thorium may play an important role to facilitate the management of high level waste as well as provide a new route to recover valuable fission product 90Sr which has potential applications as (a) compact heat source and (b) as parent radionuclide for 90Y, used in therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals. In the present work, leaching of Sr from (Th,Sr)O2 in nitric acid and perchloric acid medium has been investigated as a function of acidity as well as refluxation time. It was interesting to observe that quantitative leaching of Sr(II) is possible even at 0.01M HClO4 where leaching of Th is negligible (∼0.01%). Leaching behavior of other metal ions, like Pd(II), Y(III), and Zr(IV), representing few major fission products was also investigated.
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