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Separation and recovery of radioactive cesium and strontium by metal-organic-frameworks

Nankawa, Takuya ; Ogoshi, Yurie; Kuwahara, Akira   ; Yamada, Teppei*; Zanella, M.*; Jansat, S.*; Manning, T.*; Rosseinsky, M.*

Radioactive Cesium(Cs) and Strontium(Sr) in liquid waste can be separated by porous materials such as zeolite. The pore sizes of these materials seems to identify metal ion radius or hydrated ion radius of Cs or Sr. But since it is very difficult to change the pore sizes of these materials, we cannot investigate the relationship between the pore sizes and Cs or Sr uptake behavior of these materials. And since the frameworks of these materials are rigid, it is very hard to recover Cs or Sr absorbed in the materials and we have to dispose Cs or Sr containing material as nuclear waste. But if Cs and Sr can be recovered from the materials, we can make use of these radioactive nuclides as radiation or heat source. On the other hand, metal-organic-frameworks (MOF) have attracted much interest in this two decades because of its fascinating characters such as gas absorption, catalytic or optical properties. The advantages of MOF over zeolites or other porous materials are a highly-ordered structure composed of metal ions and organic ligands, and highly controllable pore sizes that can be controlled by the length of ligand and ionic radii of metal ions. Moreover, structures of MOF can easily be influenced by solution phase. So, it becomes easy to recover guest ions from MOF. In this study, we synthesized a novel series of MOF, (NH$$_{4}$$)[Ln(C$$_{2}$$O$$_{4}$$)$$_{2}$$(H$$_{2}$$O)]. The structure is shown in Fig.1. All the structures the MOF are isostructural. The cell lengths and pore sizes tend to be decreased with the increase of atomic number in response to the decrease of ionic radius known as lanthanide contraction. And we investigated the behavior of Cs or Sr uptake by changing lanthanide ions in the MOF. Moreover, we found that Cs can be recovered from the MOF and we can reuse the MOF again. According to these results, we found a new material to recover Cs from radioactive liquid waste to decrease the amount of waste and make use of Cs as radiation source.

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