Recently, the demand for critical metals in strategic emerging industries has exploded. The
development of clean, efficient, and simple extraction methods for critical metals, as well as …

Nuclear power provides a sustainable, long-term energy source that is an important
technology in efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. However, issues related to …

The electrochemical reduction process has been used to reduce spent oxide fuel to a
metallic form using pyroprocessing technology for a closed fuel cycle in combination with a …

Molten salt is an excellent medium for chemical reaction, energy transfer, and storage.
Molten salt innovative technologies should be developed to recover metals from secondary …

Little over a decade ago, Professor Derek Fray's group at the University of Cambridge, UK,
discovered that a solid metal oxide can be directly reduced to metal by cathodically …

Molten salts play multiple important roles in the electrolysis of solid metal compounds,
particularly oxides and sulfides, for the extraction of metals or alloys. Some of these roles are …

Extensive research and process development has been conducted on the electrolytic
reduction of actinide oxides in molten LiCl-Li 2 O. It is now accepted that the reduction of …

In this work, we investigated the dissolution behavior of U3O8 and UO3 in the LiCl–KCl
molten salt using 2.9 or 9.5 wt% AlCl3 as a chlorination agent under an argon atmosphere at …

Medium-entropy alloys (MEAs) have received increasing attention for various applications
due to their excellent properties. This work demonstrates a facile electrolysis method to …

Platinum anodes are widely used for metal oxides reduction in LiCl–Li 2 O, however high-
cost and low-corrosion resistance hinder their implementation. NiO–Li 2 O ceramics is an …