The invention belongs to the technical field of
nuclear fuel post-treatment, and relates to a
uranium purification method for simultaneously removing
neptunium and
plutonium in the
nuclear fuel Purex post-treatment process. The
uranium purification method sequentially comprises the following steps that firstly,
evaporation and concentration pretreatment is conducted, a
uranium rough product from the
Purex post-
treatment procedure uranium
plutonium codecontamination separating cycle is subjected to
evaporation and concentration pretreatment, accordingly, Np(IV) in the uranium rough product is adjusted to Np (V) and Np (VI); secondly, a
reducing agent is adopted for reducing, a concentrated solution obtained in the first step is cooled to the
room temperature, then the
reducing agent is added, then Pu (IV) and Pu (VI) in the concentrated solution are reduced into Pu (III), and Np (VI) is reduced into Np (V); and thirdly,
organic solvent extraction is conducted, the acidity of the solution obtained in the second step is adjusted, extraction is conducted in an extractor with an
organic solvent containing
tributyl phosphate in a multi-level manner, wherein the
organic solvent containing the
tributyl phosphate is divided into multiple parts to be added at different extraction levels. By utilization of the uranium purification method, the Np and the Pu can be removed at the same time through one uranium purification cycle, and qualified uranium products are obtained.