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ANR Industrial Chair SATURNESustainable and Advanced Techniques for Uranium Recovery in New types of Exploitations

Published on 12/16/25

The SATURNE (Sustainable and Advanced Techniques for Uranium Recovery in New types of Exploitations) industrial chair, co-financed for four years by the French National Research Agency (ANR) and the Orano Group, a leading international operator in the field of nuclear materials, aims to develop innovative methods for characterizing and exploiting uranium deposits. It focuses on uranium extraction using the In-Situ Recovery (ISR) process, a sustainable and environmentally friendly extraction technique.

This partnership aims to develop innovations in ISR processes, particularly in terms of environmental control, reagent efficiency, and the implementation of new processes. The chair aims to strengthen the competitiveness of the French nuclear industry while minimizing its environmental impact by bringing together specialists from public research and Orano.

Logos Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, CNRS, Orano, ANR Agence nationale de la recherche.

 

The holder of the ANR SATURNE Industrial Chair

Patrice Creux is a university professor at the Laboratory of Complex Fluids and their Reservoirs (LFCR) (joint UPPA/CNRS research unit).

He is interested in the physics of shales (flow, petrophysics, etc.), radiation-matter interaction (nano XRM, micro XRM, micro XRF, SAXS, SANS, etc.), multiphase flow in porous media, and the physical chemistry of interfaces.