Industrial Minerals


Zeolite in nuclear waste barrier

11 March 2010

by Mike O'Driscoll

Bear River Zeolite wins contract to supply zeolite for US nuclear waste remediation

Keywords: zeolite, zeolites, clinoptilolite, Bear River Zeolite, waste treatment, nuclear waste

Bear River Zeolite Co. Inc . (BRZ) a wholly owned subsidiary of US Antimony Corp., has been contracted to supply a minimum of 1,500 tonnes of BRZ zeolite to West Valley Environmental Services LLC.

West Valley Environmental, a contractor to the US Department of Energy, requires the zeolite for the remediation of radioactive isotopes from the former Western...