释义 |
Purex|ˈpjʊərɛks| [App. f. purification + extraction.] The name of an industrial process for separating the plutonium and uranium from spent uranium fuel by using tri-n-butyl phosphate as a solvent.
1956Proc. Internat. Conf. Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy IX. 471/1 A schematic chemical flowsheet for the Purex process is shown. 1976Sci. Amer. Dec. 33/3 When the separated uranium and plutonium streams emerge from the Purex process, they contain only about a millionth as much radioactivity due to fission products as the feed material did. |