The extraction of critical metal ions, particularly lanthanides and actinides, is a topic of considerable importance given their applications in energy production, recycling, and nuclear waste ...

Researchers at two U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories have developed separate chemical approaches to purifying ...

With the help of a little light, a metal-organic framework (MOF) containing photoluminescent lanthanides can uniquely identify and measure the concentrations of multiple solvents, a research team ...

Worldwide partitioning and transmutation (P & T) research aims to maximize the fission energy gain from nuclear fuel while minimizing long term radiotoxicity of nuclear fuel waste. Studies include new ...

"Hypersaline brine" is industrial waste-water with salt levels that exceed even that of seawater. It's a big, expensive, destructive problem which a team of engineers at Columbia University in New ...