Recovery of uranium from superphosphate
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Ames National Laboratory is a government-owned, contractor-operated national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), operated by and located on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
For more than 70 years, the Ames National Laboratory has successfully partnered with Iowa State University, and is unique among the 17 DOE laboratories in that it is physically located on the campus of a major research university. Many of the scientists and administrators at the Laboratory also hold faculty positions at the University and the Laboratory has access to both undergraduate and graduate student talent.
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Florida phosphate rock and the phosphoria formations of Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming have a uranium content ranging from 0.01 to 0.02 per cent. The abundant domestic reserves and the relatively large tonnages of phosphate rock mined each year cause these low-grade uranium sources to be of great potential importance. Mo st phosphate rock is used for the production of normal superphosphate, which is made by acidulating the rock with sulfuric acid to get a form of phosphorus available to plant life. This study was undertaken to develop a method of recovering uranium during the production of superphosphate without destroying the plant nutrient value of tho product.