Size Matters For Speeding Up Nuclear Waste Cleanup

Photo caption: Michael Minette shows 300-micron and larger particles separated out of a slurry mixture using Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s mesofluidic separator…. Photo credit: Andrea Starr | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Article by U.S. Department of Energy. CleanTechnica – May 14, 2022.

Cleaning up legacy radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production has been a daunting, lengthy, and expensive process.

Now, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have designed and demonstrated a simple particle separation technology that may decrease the time and money needed for cleanup. The industrial-scale application is described in Chemical Engineering & Processing: Process Intensification. […]

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