Investigation of capillary ion chromatography for nuclear prospects

C. Gautier (1) , Cyrielle Rey (2) , D. Roussignol (1) , E. Machon (1) , J. Randon (3) , M. Crozet (1) , C. Rivier (1)

1 CEA-DES (ex-DEN) - CEA-Direction des Energies (ex-Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire)
2 ICSM - UMR 5257 - Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule
3 ISA - Institute for System Analysis of the RAS

The recent development of commercial capillary ion chromatography (Cap-IC) systems provides a major opportunity to increase the reactivity of laboratories and to reduce the amount of radioactive effluents produced from the chromatographic analyses in the nuclear field. As the column replacement in a radioactive environment is tedious, the retention behavior of IC columns was investigated at capillary scale to anticipate this operation.

Keywords: Ion chromatography; radioactive effluents.

Domains: Physics [physics]; Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex]; Physics [physics]; Nuclear Theory [nucl-th]

C. Gautier, Cyrielle Rey, D. Roussignol, E. Machon, J. Randon, et al.. Investigation of capillary ion chromatography for nuclear prospects. ISC 2016 - 31st International Symposium on Chromatography, Aug 2016, Cork, Ireland. ⟨cea-02442314⟩