Dissolution behavior of plutonium containing zirconia-magnesia ceramics

► Dissolution in aqueous environments show <0.8 wt.% loss Pu. ► Proposed a mechanism for Pu dissolution in HNO3 from ZrO2-MgO matrix. ► HNO3-HF-H2O2 solution was capable of dissolving >80 wt.% of the total Pu.