Chemistry Letters, Vol.38, No.11, 1032-1033, 2009
Sorption and Oxidation of Tetravalent Plutonium on Mn Oxide in the Presence of Citric Acid
Sorption experiments of Pu-IV on synthetic Mn oxide were made in 0.1 M NaCl + 0.1 mM sodium citrate solutions under acidic to alkaline pH conditions. As the results of the sorption experiments, Pu was efficiently removed from the solutions under neutral pH conditions, where Pu forms the stable 1:2 Pu-IV-citrate complex. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that Pu-IV was oxidized to Pu-V and Pu-VI on Mn oxide.