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Monday, February 20, 2017

Uranium from seawater factors into nuclear power

Uranium from seawater factors into nuclear power
"We need nuclear power as a bridge toward a post-fossil-fuel future," said Professor Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and co-author of the ...https://phys.org/news/2017-02-uranium-seawater-factors-nuclear-power.html
 
 

Stanford researchers improve extraction of uranium from seawater

Next Big Future - ‎2 hours ago‎
There is about ten million tons of uranium reserves on land. There is much more uranium on land than those reserves but it would be less economical to go for inferior deposits. It had already been shown that uranium could be obtained from seawater at ...http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/02/stanford-researchers-improve-extraction.html

Stanford Greatly Improves Uranium Extraction From Seawater

Nuclear Street - Nuclear Power Plant News, Jobs, and Careers (press release) (blog) - ‎1 hour ago‎
Quickly: What are the advantages to mining uranium from seawater and what are the disadvantages? Seawater and nuclear power According to researchers at the University of Stanford, including former U.S. Secretary of Energy and Nobel Prize recipient ... http://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nuclear_power_news/archive/2017/02/20/stanford-greatly-improves-uranium-extraction-from-seawater-022002#.WKtYgBCXRSw

Electrified fibers help pull uranium out of seawater

New Atlas - ‎10 hours ago‎
Controversial as it is, nuclear power remains a viable source of energy as we transition away from fossil fuels toward methods with far smaller carbon footprints. Underground uranium reserves may be on the decline, but the oceans contain billions of ...http://newatlas.com/stanford-harvest-uranium-seawater/47998/
 
 
 

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