December 18, 2024
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Nuclear Energy Critical Material Waste Minimization Enabled by AM Techniques

Abstract

This project provides evidence of the successful recycling of solid waste offcuts resulting from conventional manufacturing processes from three relevant alloys to next-generation nuclear reactor developers, providing a potentially upscalable circular process where no critical elements will be lost. Furthermore, iMOF-based adsorbents were successfully designed for CM extraction from aqueous solution, thereby providing a pathway for future upscaling for salvaging dissolved Ni ions. This research has achieved its goal of showing the impact of novel applications of recycling technologies for solid and liquid wastes that can be upscaled for application.

Published: December 18, 2024

Citation

van Rooyen I., S. Meher, P.K. Thallapally, J. Fernandez dos Santos, C.M. Silva, S. Shin, and T. Wang, et al. 2024. Nuclear Energy Critical Material Waste Minimization Enabled by AM Techniques Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. doi:10.2172/2481591.