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Hash Hashemian: Visionary leadership
As Dr. Hashem M. “Hash” Hashemian prepares to step into his term as President of the American Nuclear Society, he is clear that he wants to make the most of this unique moment.
A groundswell in public approval of nuclear is finding a home in growing governmental support that is backed by a tailwind of technological innovation. “Now is a good time to be in nuclear,” Hashemian said, as he explained the criticality of this moment and what he hoped to accomplish as president.
A. Chesné, G. Koehly, A. Bathellier
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 17 | Number 4 | December 1963 | Pages 557-565
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A18448
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Trilaurylamine nitrate diluted in dodecane is considered as an extracting agent for plutonium. The use of this solvent is proposed for a tail-end plutonium recovery from irradiated uranium solutions which have already been purified by one or more TBP cycles. Mention is made of general properties of the solvent. The study of the stripping of plutonium is emphasized. The first choice stripping solution is a mixture of sulfuric and nitric acid which gives a final concentrated and purified Pu4+ solution. Some alternative purification flowsheets are given. They show that a decontamination factor of 104 can be attained for Zr-Nb and uranium. Kinetics of the extraction and radiolytic degradation of the solvent are briefly discussed.