The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has successfully produced its first purified enriched uranium "button" through a process called electrorefining, as part of what officials called ...

Recycling iron and steel is critical for environmental sustainability and essential to close material loops in circular economics. A major challenge is to produce high-value products and to control ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration has restarted uranium purification at the Y-12 National Security Complex using a new electrorefining process, marking the first such capability at the site ...

An $800,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy will allow Penn State researchers to investigate a new approach for removing rare-earth fission products from the molten salt baths where used ...

Electrorefining byproducts, notably copper anode slimes, represent a concentrated reservoir of both precious and critical metals including gold, silver, selenium, tellurium and rare earth elements.

Prof. Shi Weiqun's group from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a modified electrorefining process to recover actinides, namely in-situ anodic ...