By Natalia Domenech-Garcia, Alastair Baker, Chris J. Maher, Sarah E. Pepper, Bruce Hanson
Published in Nuclear Future 21.3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.63198/XNTY7065
The Plutonium and Uranium Reduction EXtraction process (PUREX), is the most widely used process to reprocess Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF). Head-end constitutes the second step of the PUREX process. This review article provides an in-depth description of the whole head-end process from a mechanical and chemical perspective
Dr. Natalia Domenech-Garcia is a chemist currently working for Sellafield Ltd., which is the largest nuclear waste management facility in the UK. Before her current role, Natalia worked as a research fellow at the University of Leeds (UK), where she conducted investigations into Accident Tolerant Fuels (ATF) dissolution a.t the head-end of reprocessing.
