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Efosa Udinmwen

China has extracted 1000g of uranium from just seawater - targets "unlimited battery life" by 2050, tapping into 4.5 billion tons of aquatic uranium

Seawater uranium.

  • China successfully extracted kilogram-level uranium from seawater under real marine conditions
  • Oceans contain far more uranium than all known land-based deposits combined
  • Seawater uranium concentration is extremely low, making recovery technically demanding
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