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Australia / Promising Material Could Help Extract Uranium From Seawater

By David Dalton
13 October 2023

Large-scale harvesting becoming ‘a greater likelihood’

Promising Material Could Help Extract Uranium From Seawater
It is estimated that there are about 4.5 billion tonnes of uranium in the world’s oceans. Courtesy UK Met Office.
An Australian-led international research team has found that “doping” a promising material provides a simple, effective method capable of potentially extracting almost limitless quantities of uranium from seawater.

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