Patents Assigned to M4 Environmental Management Inc.
  • Process for the conversion of uranium oxide to uranium metal and uranium alloys
    Patent number: 5735932
    Abstract: A process for preparing uranium metal or alloy thereof suitable for use in a metal-based uranium enrichment plant or other use requiring a superdense metal comprising providing a molten metal bath containing the alloy metal and feeding uranium oxide and a reactive metal reductant into the molten metal bath so that the oxide is reduced to elemental uranium and alloying the thus formed uranium with the bath metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: M4 Environmental Management Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Stephenson, Waldo R. Golliher, Paul A. Haas, Lark A. Lundberg