US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Feb. 25 for "Continuous separation of radionuclides by shock electrodialysis" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,091, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Continuous separation of radionuclides by shock electrodialysis" was invented by Kameron Conforti (Malden, Mass.), Mohammad Ayman Alkhadra (Cambridge, Mass.), Tao Gao (Cambridge, Mass.), Huanhuan Tian (Cambridge, Mass.) and Martin Z. Bazant (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Radioactive nuclides (radionuclides) are separate from an aqueous radioactive liquid by feeding the liquid into a chamber between a porous anode and a porous cathode of a shock electrodialysis device. Meanwhile, an anolyte is fed through the porous ano...