Independent Review Sees ‘Potential Pathway’ In SUPC Plans To Extract Uranium From Seawater

US company aims to access 4.5 billion tonnes of uranium dissolved in world’s oceans

Independent Review Sees ‘Potential Pathway’ In SUPC Plans To Extract Uranium From Seawater
SUPC is developing a platform designed to access approximately 4.5 billion tonnes of uranium dissolved in the world’s oceans. Photo courtesy UK Met Office.

An independent assessment has concluded that SuperCritical Materials Corp’s (SUPC) plans for industrial-scale uranium production infrastructure from seawater offer a potential pathway towards large-scale deployment.

Texas, US-based SUPC said the assessment was carried out by science, technology and engineering company Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR).

SUPC said that as demand for reliable, baseload electricity accelerates, long-term growth in nuclear generation will require corresponding growth in fuel production infrastructure.

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