ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A team of researchers from Sandia, Lawrence Berkeley and Pacific Northwest national laboratories tested a “sponge-like” mineral that can “soak up” uranium at a former uranium mill near Rifle, Colorado. The researchers found that the mineral, calcium apatite, soaks up and binds uranium from the groundwater, reducing it by more than ten-thousandfold. […]
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Using a mineral ‘sponge’ to catch uranium
June 9, 2021 – 5:00 am
By Mollie Rappe
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Posted in Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Also tagged apatite remediation, Office of Legacy Management, uranium remediation
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An ‘apatite’ for radionuclides
October 20, 2015 – 9:20 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories geochemist Mark Rigali and his colleagues are developing and deploying apatite-based technologies to protect groundwater at sites contaminated by radionuclides and heavy metals. Apatite is currently being used at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State and the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, “and, there are […]
By Stephanie Holinka
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Posted in Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Also tagged Fukushima, geochemistry, groundwater, Hanford Site
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