Title

Oxidation and Reduction of Aquas Uranuim

Document Type

Student Presentation

Presentation Date

4-21-2014

Faculty Sponsor

Dale Russell

Comments

The accumulation of nuclear waste is a threat to health and the environment. Whether or not nuclear energy remains an option, the huge amounts of legacy waste and cancellation of geological storage requires a clean-up method. If nuclear energy is to continue to be part of the nation’s total energy production, a closed nuclear fuel cycle is required. The goal of this work is to answer some fundamental questions that would enable development of the closed cycle.

Kinetics of electron transfer steps for the reduction of U (VI) to U (III) and the oxidation of U (III) to U (VI) are determined using cyclic and linear sweep voltammetries. The rate constant for one electron transfer step can be determined by varying the scan rate and measuring peak current and peak potential, according to

where k(Ep) is the heterogeneous electron transfer rate constant at the peak potential, D is the diffusion coefficient, R is 8.314 JK-1mol-1, T is the absolute temperature, n is number of electrons transferred, F is 9.648 x104Cmol-1, ß is the transfer coefficient for the electrode process, and v is the sweep rate.

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