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TOMSK, Jan 31 – RIA
Tomsk. Scientists of the Siberian Institute of Physics and
Technology of Tomsk State University (SIPT TSU) will be engaged in creation of
high-selective materials for processing of ores of rare and rare-earth metals
in any environment – for example, in the remote areas of Siberia and polar
regions, the press service of the university reports on Tuesday.
As it is reported with reference to the director of
the SIPT TSU Innovative and technological center Victor Sachkov, now Russia
"due to various reasons strongly lagged behind many industrially developed
states on production and use of rare metals".
"Our country takes the second place on their
explored reserves. The task is set for us – within a state task we have to
develop high-selective materials and technologies of their application which
will allow to process mineral raw materials in any environment, including
extreme ones", – his word are provided in the message.
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The press service specifies that scientists will be
engaged in creation of materials for hydrometallurgical processing within three
years. Development will help to process mineral raw materials in remote regions
of Siberia and the polar region and in the future to exploit a seabed and shelf
when stocks on continents are exhausted. SIPT cooperates in this direction with
the RAS Federal Research Center for the complex study of the Arctic in
Arkhangelsk.
"High-selective materials have one more scope -
it is recultivation of contaminated land and water objects. This problem is
typical for Russia and other countries, where there were environmental
disasters similar to Chernobyl, Fukushima, Semipalatinsk. Huge territories
which can be returned to an agricultural turn by means of the materials
deactivating highly toxic elements are empty", – adds Sachkov.
It is noted that SIPT scientists have an experience in
creation of similar technologies. So, in 2016 residents of Tomsk together with
specialists of Lermontov Hydrometallurgical plant by request of Minpromtorg of
the Russian Federation have developed the technology of purification of
rare-earth metals from radioactive waste. In the fall of the same year it was
introduced at the plant.