| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Seaborg Institutes: Emerging Topics in Actinide Materials and Science
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| Presentation Title |
Recovery and Processing of Mixed-californium Material for Superheavy Element Research |
| Author(s) |
Shelley VanCleve, Kristian Myhre, Jay Kehn, Nathan Sims, Laetitia Delmau, Rose Boll |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Shelley VanCleve |
| Abstract Scope |
In support of an international collaboration to study and discover superheavy elements, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has recovered, purified, and produced targets of mixed californium. The mixed californium was consolidated and processed from legacy 252Cf neutron sources and target segments recovered from previous R&D. Each source of the mixed californium was decay-enriched in 251Cf, with a very high 251Cf/252Cf ratio. Following the recovery and processing efforts, the mixed californium was electrodeposited on titanium foil segments. The focus of this presentation is the dissolution and processing efforts for a purified mixed-californium stock. The processing efforts included column chromatography using DGA and LN resins, followed by a functionalized cation resin. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Nuclear Materials, Thin Films and Interfaces, |