“…Recently, various techniques have been applied for recovery and removal of uranium from its leach liquors or effluents such as precipitation (Mellah, Chegrouche, & Barkat, 2007;Zhang, Dodge, Malhotra, & Francis, 2013), co-precipitation (Aydin & Soylak, 2007;Reeder et al, 2001), solvent extraction (Agrawl, Shrivatav, & Mnom, 2000;Quinn, Wilkins, & Soldenhoff, 2013;Zhu, Pranolo, & Cheng, 2016), chromatographic extraction (Dietz, Philip, Sajdak, & Chiarizia, 2001;Prasada, Metilde, & Gladis, 2006), ion exchange (Gu, Ku, & Brown, 2005;Pulhani, Dafauti, & Hegde, 2012;Solgy, Taghizadeh, & Ghoddocynejad, 2015), membrane dialysis (Kedari, Pandit, & Gandhi, 2013;Bockris, 1972), solid phase extraction (Barbette et al, 2004;Keshtkar, Irani, & Moosavian, 2013;Song et al, 2012;Yousif, El-Afandy, Abdel-Wahab, Mubark, & Ibrahim, 2015;Zou & Zhao, 2012), ultrafiltration (Drozdzaka et al, 2016), nanofiltration (Shena & Sch€ aferb, 2014), resin-in-pulp (Sreenivas & Rajan, 2013), biosorption (Saini & Melo, 2015) and electrodeposition (Ko, Lim, Choi, Chung, & Kang, 2015). Most of these methods suffer from technical, economical and health problems related to selectivity, long time of extraction and large quantity of hazardous materials used but the ion exchange resins appear to be one of the most effective techniques owning to its cost-effective, versatile and simple features to operate for removing trace levels of ions (Bhatnagar, Kumar, & Sillanp, 2011;Rafatullah, Sulaiman, Hashim, & Ahmad, 2010).…”