Uranium exists uniformly at a concentration of ~3.3 ppb in seawater. The extraction of uranium from seawater presents a very attractive alternative source of uranium for nuclear fuel needs.
Revised: February 25, 2015 |
Published: July 9, 2014
Citation
Saito T., S. Brown, S. Chatterjee, J. Kim, C. Tsouris, R. Mayes, and L. Kuo, et al. 2014.Uranium Recovery from Seawater: Development of Fiber Adsorbents Prepared via Atom-Transfer Radical Polymerization.Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2, no. 35:14674-14681.PNNL-SA-104178.doi:10.1039/C4TA03276D