Congratulations to Evgeny Tereshatov and the entire At-211 Team on the recent acceptance of a new paper, “Mechanism of astatine and bismuth sorption on extraction chromatography resins from nitric acid media” in Chemical Engineering Journal!
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Congratulations to Evgeny Tereshatov and the entire At-211 Team on the recent acceptance of a new paper, “Mechanism of astatine and bismuth sorption on extraction chromatography resins from nitric acid media” in Chemical Engineering Journal!
The Burns Research Group received its third shipment of ~1.8 mCi of At-211 on March 28, 2023! A huge thank you to our collaborators at The Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute who successfully loaded, packaged, and shipped us a 3-octanone extraction chromatography cartridge with 23 mCi of At-211!
Welcome to the Burns Research Group Jennifer! Dr. Jennifer Pyles received Her Ph.D. in 2023 from University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
Welcome to the Burns Research Group Avinash! Dr. Avinash Srivastava received his Ph.D. in 2020 from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.
The Burns Research Group received its second shipment of ~1.7 mCi of At-211 on December 15, 2022! A huge thank you to our collaborators at The Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute who successfully loaded, packaged, and shipped us a 3-octanone extraction chromatography cartridge with 26 mCi of At-211!
Welcome to the Burns Research Group Pallavi! Ms. Pallavi Sarkhelis is a first-year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry pursuing her Ph.D.
Noimat Jinadu presented a poster at the Department of Chemistry Research Retreat on Saturday. Thank you Noimat for doing a fantastic job representing the Burns Research Group!
Thank you to UAB News for highlighting our recent ARPA-E CURIE program proposal, Group Hexavalent Actinide Separation: A Single-Step, Proliferation-Resistant Approach to Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, which was has been selected for funding.
Welcome to the Burns Research Group Emma! Ms. Emma Schaetzle is an undergraduate student in the Department of Chemistry in her Junior year pursuing her B.S.
In collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, our project, Group Hexavalent Actinide Separation: A Single-Step, Proliferation-Resistant Approach to Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, has been selected for funding by the ARPA-E CURIE program. This project aims to develop a single-step technology to recycle used nuclear fuel (UNF) that can recover the bulk of uranium (U) and transuranics (TRU) as the first step after dissolution in nitric acid. We will work toward the recycling of UNF through the co-crystallization of oxidized TRU with uranyl nitrate hexahydrate. This single-step, group actinide separation will (1) significantly reduce the volume of light-water reactor high-level radioactive waste that requires permanent disposal, (2) provide an appropriate fuel feedstock by combining U/TRU in a single product stream, (3) reduce fission product content in the product stream to <0.1%, and (4) provide compatibility with online monitoring technologies.