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Helium recycling project sets a new standard for sustainability at UCSF

Thu Jun 17, 2021
Helium recycling equipment

The UCSF Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine now use helium recycling equipment, shown above, to avoid wasting the gas, which is used to cool certain types of scientific and medical imaging machines.

The School is now recycling much of the helium used in its NMR facilities.