Scientists at Ural Federal University have figured out how to process sludge containing radioactive uranium, which will help provide uranium for the nuclear industry.
“We have succeeded in extracting uranium suitable for recycling into nuclear fuel production,” explains Ksenia Nalivaiko, the main researcher and co-author of the article, PhD student and engineer of the Department of Rare Metals and Nanomaterials UrFU. “So, our proposed method, when applied on an industrial scale, allows us to solve several important problems at the same time: to process radioactive waste, to extract valuable uranium as well as useful materials associated with it.”
