Sentences with phrase «uranium from»

It is now economically viable to extract uranium from sea water, just by leaving an absorbent in the water for a few weeks.

The example of uranium from sea water (up to 4.5 billion tonnes of it) was invoked to refute peak uranium, which it does.

In fact, half of this nuclear material is down - blended uranium from the former Soviet Union — «truly turning swords into plowshares,» Rosner says.

Researchers have found that E. coli can recover uranium from tainted waters when working alongside inositol phosphate.

PNNL is testing an adsorbent that could more effectively extract trace amounts of uranium from seawater and help fuel future nuclear power development.

From the news that E. coli can be used to recover uranium from tainted waters and clean up nuclear waste to the first «living» building grown in Germany, a lot happened this week in green.

One of the big contentions is about a huge shipment of yellow - cake uranium from Africa to Sadam.

Enriched uranium from Centrus is used in nuclear reactors around the world to produce emissions - free electricity to support our growing energy demands in an environmentally responsible manner.

Throughout its history, Centrus has been committed to the reduction of Cold War nuclear arsenals through the recycling of highly enriched uranium from nuclear warheads into low - enriched uranium to be used in fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.

Acetate, similar to diluted vinegar, had been added to the aquifer to stimulate metal - reducing bacteria that can remove uranium from groundwater.

«If we have technology to capture uranium from seawater, we can ensure that an essentially unlimited supply of the element becomes available if uranium prices go up in the future,» Schneider said.

The Uranium from Seawater program continues to make significant advancements, producing adsorbents with even higher capacities for grabbing uranium.

Around the nation, sediments and groundwater are contaminated with uranium from discharges at mining and processing sites.

«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.

For half a century, researchers worldwide have tried to mine uranium from the oceans with limited success.

Within five years this team has developed new adsorbents that reduce the cost of extracting uranium from seawater by three to four times.

Virtually the entire U.S. nuclear reactor fleet participated in this program by using fuel fabricated with low enriched uranium from the Megatons to Megawatts program.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers developed a fiber to adsorb uranium from seawater.

For two decades, up to 10 percent of the electricity produced in the United States was generated by fuel fabricated using low enriched uranium from the Megatons to Megawatts program.

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.

Scientists have been trying for more than two decades to find ways to safely and cost - effectively prevent that uranium from flowing toward nearby communities.

Uranium from terrestrial sources can last for approximately 100 years, according to Erich Schneider of the University of Texas - Austin.

Acetate addition to the subsurface stimulates metal - reducing bacteria to effectively remove uranium from groundwater.

Russian UET resources with 311,000 tonnes of uranium, as well as the remaining Russia «excess» HEU with 108,000 tonnes of uranium, could continue to offset demand for primary uranium from unmined ore deposits, and could reduce the likelihood that new mines such as those proposed near Church Rock and Crownpoint in New Mexico would be mined in the future.

As a result, more uranium from mines and mills was needed than would be the case with more U-235 extraction and lower U-235 content of UET.

To keep the uranium from the river, scientists need to know how uranium moves, or doesn't, through the complex subsurface.

Why would the NMED allow alternative abatement standards for uranium from 5mg / L to 13mg / L when the Ground Water Bureau (GWB) is proposing to change uranium levels down to.007 mg / L?

Chemical defoliants, polluted water supplies, even the depleted uranium from modern armor - piercing bullets leaching into the land.

After three days, they found that the shrimp - shell fibers had indeed collected uranium from the solution.

The new design cuts the cost of extracting uranium from seawater from $ 1232 to $ 660 per kilogram.

This suggests that the MORBs contain a «fingerprint» of the uranium from the oceanic crust, drawn down from the surface and into the upper part of Earth's mantle through subduction, according to Andersen.

For the first time in decades a new uranium rod fabrication plant is operating in New Mexico and it may soon be joined by as many as three others in the U.S.. That's because 2013 will see the expiration of an agreement with Russia that allows the U.S. to blend down the highly enriched uranium from decommissioned Russian nuclear warheads into the lower level enriched fuel used in U.S. nuclear reactors — a program known as «Megatons to Megawatts» that currently provides as much as 50 percent of U.S. nuclear fuel.

«And to keep that decay heat of the uranium from melting the core, you have to keep water on it.

«They take in uranium from the seawater, but not thorium.»

They found that up to 89 percent of the uranium from their 650 - foot - deep samples wasn't crystalline uraninite at all, but rather, a non-crystalline uranium that was bound to organic matter or inorganic carbonate.

The article, published recently in Open Chemistry may lead to the development of a process to remove uranium from wastewater at the front - end of the nuclear fuel cycle, or even extracting natural uranium from sea water.

The researchers discovered uranium from nuclear fuel embedded in or associated with caesium - rich micro particles that were emitted from the plant's reactors during the meltdowns.

Energy discussions certainly factored into coverage of his visit to Canada, but they largely hinged around India as a prospective market for our oil and gas, and a new agreement that will see India purchase $ 350 million of uranium from Cameco, a Saskatchewan - based mining firm.

But U.S. owners and operators of commercial nuclear reactors purchase the vast majority of their uranium from foreign sources.

Natural gas, of which we're the second - largest exporter today, as well as copper and nickel from northern Ontario, and potash and uranium from Saskatchewan, will see steady demand.

Not exact matches

Black Range Minerals shares closed on a high today on news it had received a takeover proposal from Canadian - based Western Uranium Corporation for all of the company's shares.

New trade deals will boost Canadian exports of everything from uranium to beef tallow.

The respondents are most adamant that militarily significant sectors of the economy be protected from foreign ownership, including uranium mining.

He theorized and later showed that the rays came from the radioactive uranium salts.

For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.

Gold explorer Bullion Minerals Ltd will become a pure uranium play, making the most of a $ 3 million cash injection from Canadian group Laramide Resources.

Picking apart the Uranium One deal has been a regular staple on Fox News» primetime lineup and has received attention from President Donald Trump as of late.

Thanks in part to the low - cost uranium coming from Canada, rising prices made the Swiss subsidiary tremendously profitable — it earned $ 4.3 billion during the six - year period ending in 2012.

But, as we've written before, there is no evidence that donations to the Clinton Foundation from people with ties to Uranium One or Bill Clinton's speaking fee influenced Hillary Clinton's official actions.

In a June 2015 letter to Rep. Peter Visclosky, the NRC said it granted RSB Logistics Services an amendment to its export license in 2012 to allow the Kentucky shipping company to export uranium to Canada from various sources — including from a Uranium One site in Wuranium to Canada from various sources — including from a Uranium One site in WUranium One site in Wyoming.