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Candidates for leadership provide statements: ANS Board of Directors
With the annual ANS election right around the corner, American Nuclear Society members will be going to the polls to vote for a vice president/president-elect, treasurer, and members-at-large for the Board of Directors. In January, Nuclear News published statements from candidates for vice president/president-elect and treasurer. This month, we are featuring statements from each nominee for the Board of Directors.
Leonard W. Gray
Nuclear Technology | Volume 40 | Number 2 | September 1978 | Pages 185-193
Technical Paper | Tutorial Materials/Design Interaction in Nuclear System / Chemical Processing | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A26714
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Hydrazine and ferrous sulfamate are used as reductants in a variety of nuclear fuel processing solutions. An oxidant, normally sodium nitrite, must frequently be added to these nitric acid solutions before additional processing can proceed. The interactions of these four chemicals have been studied under a wide variety of conditions using a 2P factorial experimental design. It was determined that the desired oxidations of Fe2+, , and NH2SO3H to Fe3+ and N2 occur at ambient temperatures with nitric acid concentrations ≤3M without complicating side reactions. The rate of oxidation of Fe2+ by nitrous acid proceeds at about the same rate as the scavenging of nitrous acid by sulfamic acid. At nitric acid concentrations >3M and at elevated temperatures, hydrolysis of sulfamic acid to NH4HSO4 and decomposition of both hydrazine and nitrous acid become important side reactions.
