Jun Onoe News Today

Prussian blue changed art in the 18th century. Three hundred years later, the pigment could help solve our electronic and nuclear waste problem.

Japanese researchers discovered that Prussian blue may be the key to recovering precious metals from of nuclear and electronic waste.

A big problem with the disposal of nuclear and electronic wastes is that the process wastes precious metals such as gold and platinum-group metals, which are key metals in computer chips.