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PUREX - PUREX is a chemical method used to purify fuel for nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons. It is an acronym standing for Plutonium Uranium Redox EXtract...

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Clorox competitor
Cheer competition
Tide alternative
Detergent with Clorox 2

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Dec 30 2017 Newsday.com
Oct 19 2017 Wall Street Journal
Jun 6 2015 Newsday.com
Jul 8 2013 Wall Street Journal

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An industrial process for separating the plutonium and uranium from spent uranium fuel by using tri-n-butyl phosphate as a solvent. Also "Purex process". Usually attributive.

Purex description
PUREX is a chemical method used to purify fuel for nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons. It is an acronym standing for Plutonium Uranium Redox EXtraction. PUREX is the de facto standard aqueous nuclear reprocessing method for the recovery of uranium and plutonium from used ("spent", or "irradiated") nuclear fuel. It is based on liquidliquid extraction ion-exchange. * The PUREX process was invented by Herbert H. Anderson and Larned B. Asprey at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago, as part of the Manhattan Project under Glenn T. Seaborg; their patent "Solvent Extraction Process for Plutonium" filed in 1947, mentions tributyl phosphate as the major reactant which accomplishes the bulk of the chemical extraction.*

Purex description

PUREX is a chemical method used to purify fuel for nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons. It is an acronym standing for Plutonium Uranium Redox EXtraction. PUREX is the de facto standard aqueous nuclear reprocessing method for the recovery of uranium and plutonium from used ("spent", or "irradiated") nuclear fuel. It is based on liquidliquid extraction ion-exchange.
* The PUREX process was invented by Herbert H. Anderson and Larned B. Asprey at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago, as part of the Manhattan Project under Glenn T. Seaborg; their patent "Solvent Extraction Process for Plutonium" filed in 1947, mentions tributyl phosphate as the major reactant which accomplishes the bulk of the chemical extraction.*

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