Abstract
The direct dissolution of UC, a potential fuel for generation-IV nuclear reactors, in nitric acid can produce organic complexants that may interfere with the consumed fuel reprocessing based on liquid–liquid extraction. This study shows the presence of 17 % of carboxylic and polycarboxylic acids (e.g. benzenepentacarboxylic acid). 25 % of the carbon mass balance seemed to correspond to unfunctionalized polyaromatic compounds with more than 3–4 aromatic rings. Under an active oxidation process, these compounds become smaller and very functionalized polyaromatic compounds. Structures have been proposed for 8 % of the carbon mass balance.
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