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 …

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 …

A highly porous SIMFUEL particle is prepared here for use as a feed material for
electrochemical reduction. The prepared particles were found to have highly porous and …

Electrochemical reductions of various UO2 forms were investigated in a molten LiCl–Li2O
electrolyte. The study focused on the influence of their sizes and densities on the reduction …

Molten mixtures of lithium chloride and metallic lithium are of significant interest in various
metal oxide reduction processes. These solutions have been reported to exhibit seemingly …

The large size and high density of spent fuel pellets make it difficult to use the pellets directly
in electrolytic reduction (also called as oxide reduction, OR) for pyroprocessing owing to the …