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New way to pull uranium from water can help China's nuclear power push
Chinese researchers have a new method to extract uranium from seawater twice as cheaply as previous technologies. Their success comes as China needs uranium to fuel its unprecedented nuclear expansion
Chinese researchers have developed an extremely energy efficient and low-cost technology for extracting uranium from seawater, a potential boon to the country’s nuclear power ambitions. The system is “very innovative” and “a significant step forward compared to… existing uranium extraction methods”, says Shengqian Ma at the University of North Texas, who wasn’t involved in the new research. One of the most successful previous demonstrations of harvesting uranium from seawater came in the 1990s, when the Japan Atomic Energy Agency extracted a kilogram of the element from the ocean using a physical adsorption method.
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