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Sandia Lab: Using a mineral ‘sponge’ to catch uranium

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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. Graphic of underground stream with uranium being absorbed by apatite with detection wells upstream and downstream.A graphical illustration of the apatite remediation test to absorb […]