US Patent Issued on Feb. 24 for "Methods for recycling metals from the nuclear industry" (Colorado, Florida, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,291, issued on Feb. 24.

"Methods for recycling metals from the nuclear industry" was invented by Paul Sylvester (Denver), Timothy Nicholas Milner (Lexington, S.C.) and Colin Russell Austin (Port Charlotte, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for processing metal components from the nuclear industry are described. In some embodiments, a method includes processing a component having a surface contaminated with radionuclides by dissolving at least a portion of the surface with an acid solution to produce a waste solution including the radionuclides, and separating the radionuclides from the waste solution. In some embodiments, a...