The Uranium
from Seawater program continues to make significant advancements, producing adsorbents with even higher capacities for grabbing uranium.
«Synthesizing a material that's superior at adsorbing uranium from seawater required a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional team including chemists, computational scientists, chemical engineers, marine scientists and economists,» said Sheng Dai, who has technical oversight of the ORNL uranium
from seawater program.
Not exact matches
The DOE
program is laying the technological foundation to determine the economic feasibility of uranium recovery
from seawater.
In 2011, the Department of Energy initiated a
program involving a multidisciplinary team
from national laboratories, universities and research institutes to address the fundamental challenges of economically extracting uranium
from seawater.