Facilities for Uranium Recovery from Phosphate

(last updated 3 Mar 2021)

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• Wet Phosphoric Acid Process

Wet Phosphoric Acid Process

Country	Owner/Controller	Plant Name/Location	Nominal Capacity		U Recovery Status
			[kt P2O5 / year]	[MTU/year]
Canada	Earth Sciences Inc.	Calgary, Alberta [ISSUES]	110	33
United States	United Nuclear Corp.	formerly W.R.Grace Plant / Bartow, FL	330	101
	Wyoming Minerals Corp.	Farmland / Pierce, FL	450	138
	Gardinier Inc.	Tampa, FL	450	138
	International Minerals & Chemicals Corp. (IMC)	New Wales, FL	1500	500
	CF Industries / IMC	Plant City, FL	750	166
		Bartow, FL	600	279
	Freeport Uranium Recovery Co.	Uncle Sam / Convent, LA [ISSUES]	820	291
		Sunshine Bridge / Donaldsonville, LA	480	166
Brazil	INB	Itataia, Ceará		(680)	Planned
Belgium	Umipray S.A. / Prayon	Puurs and Engis a)	130	43
Iraq	SOM		90	28
Taiwan	Institute of Nuclear Research	China Phosphate / Lung Tan	33	10
Total				1,893

^a) Puurs (near Antwerp): acid pretreatment and first cycle of extraction/stripping; Engis (near Liège): second cycle and refinery
MTU = metric tonnes of uranium metal.
Sources:
The Recovery of Uranium from Phosphoric Acid , IAEA-TECDOC-533, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1989, 104 p.
Recovery of Uranium from Wet Phosphoric Acid by Solvent Extraction Processes, by Denis Beltrami, Gérard Cote, Hamid Mokhtari, et al. in: Chemical Reviews 2014, Vol. 114, No. 24, p. 12002–12023

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