The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has successfully produced its first purified enriched uranium "button" through a process called electrorefining, as part of what officials called ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration has restarted uranium purification at the Y-12 National Security Complex using a new electrorefining process, marking the first such capability at the site ...

An $800,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy will allow Penn State researchers to investigate a new approach for removing rare-earth fission products from the molten salt baths where used ...

Electrorefining byproducts, notably copper anode slimes, represent a concentrated reservoir of both precious and critical metals including gold, silver, selenium, tellurium and rare earth elements.