Download or read book Chemistry of Separation of Plutonium from Irradiated Fuel written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separation of plutonium and its purification to give a product which can be used as fuel is one of the chief aims in the reprocessing of reactor fuels consisting of irradiated uranium. It was decided to set up a plant based on solvent extraction method for primary separation and ion exchange method for the purification of plutonium to reprocess fuel from the existing reactors at Trombay, and data were, therefore, collected during the period 1959-1961 for its design.