Adsorption of Re and Tc-99 by means of radiation-grafted weak basic anion exchange resin

作者:Zu, Jianhua*; Liu, Ruiqin; Zhang, Jianqiu; Tang, Fangdong; He, Linfeng
来源:Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2016, 310(1): 229-237.
DOI:10.1007/s10967-016-4819-0

摘要

To avoid using toxic solvents, weak basic anion exchange resin with aromatic amine groups was prepared by grafting 4-vinyl pyridine onto polystyrene microspheres through simultaneous radiation grafting method. In batch adsorption experiments toward Re(VII) which was selected to simulate Tc-99, the adsorption efficiency maximized when the concentration of HNO3 was set at 0.02 M. Using reductive eluents SnCl2 it was found a method to efficiently regenerated resin at low acidity. For adsorption toward Tc-99, the results matched well with Re, which indicates that the prepared exchangers will have wide applications in the future to remove Tc-99 from spent nuclear fuel.