As common as uranium is in the ground around us, the world’s oceans contain a thousand times more uranium (~4.5 billion tons) than can be mined today. This makes extracting uranium as well as other ...

Researcher Jiang Biao of the Green Chemical Engineering Technology Research and Development Center of the Shanghai Advanced Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his team developed a ...

A team of scientists has developed a groundbreaking material that dramatically boosts the ability to extract uranium from seawater, addressing one of the key challenges in the sustainable development ...

Global nuclear energy generation is expected to reach record levels in 2025, leading to an increased demand for uranium and a need for innovative extraction methods. Chinese scientists have developed ...

Chinese researchers have unveiled a method of extracting uranium from seawater at a fraction of the previous cost and energy use, positioning the country to potentially secure long-term domestic ...

The system combines solar power with a special black metal that absorbs sunlight.

Seawater has tons of lithium, but it is present at a concentration of just 200 parts per billion (ppb) and is drowned by sodium and other more abundant ions. Efficiently extracting lithium from the ...