{"id":217133,"date":"2025-07-03T18:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ai-helps-discover-optimal-new-material-for-removing-radioactive-iodine-contamination"},"modified":"2025-07-03T18:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:08:12","slug":"ai-helps-discover-optimal-new-material-for-removing-radioactive-iodine-contamination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ai-helps-discover-optimal-new-material-for-removing-radioactive-iodine-contamination","title":{"rendered":"AI helps discover optimal new material for removing radioactive iodine contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-helps-discover-optimal-new-material-for-removing-radioactive-iodine-contamination2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Managing radioactive waste is one of the core challenges in the use of nuclear energy. In particular, radioactive iodine poses serious environmental and health risks due to its long half-life (15.7 million years in the case of I-129), high mobility, and toxicity to living organisms.<\/p>\n<p>A Korean research team has successfully used artificial intelligence to discover a new material that can remove iodine for nuclear environmental remediation. The team plans to push forward with commercialization through various industry\u2013academia collaborations, from iodine-adsorbing powders to contaminated water treatment filters.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Ho Jin Ryu\u2019s research team from the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, in collaboration with Dr. Juhwan Noh of the Digital Chemistry Research Center at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, developed a technique using AI to discover new materials that effectively remove <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/radioactive+iodine\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">radioactive iodine<\/a> contaminants. Their research is <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0304389425016516\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the Journal of Hazardous Materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing radioactive waste is one of the core challenges in the use of nuclear energy. In particular, radioactive iodine poses serious environmental and health risks due to its long half-life (15.7 million years in the case of I-129), high mobility, and toxicity to living organisms. A Korean research team has successfully used artificial intelligence to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,19,1495,873,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-health","category-nuclear-energy","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}