Evaluation of Uranium Recovery Potential from  Solvent Waste through Liquid-Liquid Extraction: Attempted recovery of uranium at the University of Leeds from stored solvent wastes containing uranium

 By Yejin Park, Bruce Hanson, Alastair Baker

Published in Nuclear Future 21.1

DOI: https://doi.org/10.63198/KREJ9593

SUMMARY

•  Uranium in the form of uranyl nitrate in tributyl phosphate arising from the UK Advanced Fuel Cyle Programme has been stored since 2019 due to its potential fiscal value in recovery and circular use
• Conducted back-extraction of solvent waste containing uranium with an unknown composition that has been stored in the Nuclear Engineering Laboratory at the University of Leeds

LEAD AUTHOR

Yejin Park is a MEng and BEng graduate in Chemical and Nuclear Engineering from the University of Leeds. She has conducted liquid-liquid extraction on uranium-containing solvent residue in the Nuclear Engineering Lab at the university. As a Research Assistant at Ridgeway Information, she researched nuclear non-proliferation and the development of 4th generation reactors in the Republic of Korea. Currently, she is an intern at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, Division of Nuclear Installation Safety.