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* Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory E. D. Jones Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94551 This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344 Outcomes of U.S.-Japan Roundtable on Rare Earth Elements RD for Clean Energy Technologies (18-19 November 2010) December 3, 2010 U.S.-Japan REE Roundtable DOE, national laboratories, academia, business/industry Japan delegation led by Toru Nakayama, NEDO New Energy and Industrial Technology and Development Organization (NEDO) National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI Tohoku University Kansai University Strategic Perspectives DOE Diversify supply (new resources and reuse) Substitutes (at multiple scales) Efficient use (optimization, longer lifetimes) METI Securing overseas resources (JOGMEC) Recycling (JOGMEC) Development of alternative and substitute materials (NEDO, MEXT) Stockpiling (JOGMEC) GOJ has had a concerted REE/Rare Metals strategy since 2007 (Supplemental budget in JFY 2010 is ~$1 Billion) ‘Sustaining the rare earths enterprise through materials management’ Materials Management Roundtable used an enterprise format: from supply to demand side The most readily available REE resource (other than Mountain Pass mine) is the extant product lines, i.e., reuse and recycling New mine finds take at least 10 years to produce (in U.S.) Plentiful worldwide phosphate resources with relatively low concentration REE (requires economical extraction/separation) Japan’s supply and demand chain is more fully articulated than in U.S.; may have different priorities Japan’s Rare Metal Substitute Materials Development Program – Target Applications Dysprosium and Neodymium for REE magnets [30% reduction] Grain refinement and nanostruct