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PUREX process [1 record]

Record 1 2014-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Special-Language Phraseology
DEF

A chemical process used in a reprocessing plant to separate plutonium and uranium from fission products and from each other by means of solvent extraction with tributylphosphate (TBP.)

OBS

PUREX: plutonium and uranium refining by extraction.

OBS

purex process: term and definition standardized by ISO in 1997.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences et techniques nucléaires
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
DEF

Procédé chimique utilisé dans une usine de retraitement pour séparer le plutonium et l'uranium des produits de fission et l'un de l'autre au moyen d'une extraction par solvant avec du tributylphosphate (TBP).

OBS

PUREX : acronyme qui provient de l'anglais «plutonium and uranium refining by extraction».

OBS

procédé PUREX : terme publié au Journal officiel de la République française le 21 décembre 2013.

OBS

procédé purex : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO en 1997.

Spanish

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