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US 2025/0059627 A1Published application
Systems and methods for recovering radium-226
AssigneeRadtran LLC
InventorSaleem S. Drera
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for recovering radium-226. In one embodiment, uranium ore and/or tailings are processed to achieve an aqueous solution comprising radium-226. A macrocyclic material may be used to sorb the radium-226 from the aqueous solution. The macrocyclic material may subsequently be exposed to a recovery solution, such as EDTA, to recover the radium-226.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- (a) sorbing Ra-226 from an aqueous radium-containing solution via a macrocyclic solid-phase Ra-226 selective sorbent;
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- (b) recovering Ra-226 from the macrocyclic solid-phase Ra-226 selective sorbent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.