How to extract uranium from seawater for nuclear power (2017)

Re:How to extract uranium from seawater for nuclear power (2... by denkmoon on Thursday April 30, 2020 @11:50PM (#23038931)

How does one enforce nuclear non-proliferation if any country can extract uranium from seawater?

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Re:How to extract uranium from seawater for nuclear power (2... by titzer on Thursday April 30, 2020 @11:59PM (#23038989)

Uranium enrichment to a suitable level is a seriously involved industrial process that requires thousands of supersonic centrifuges to do at scale. This is not something that flies under the radar easily. It's also very energy intensive to run those centrifuges, so it's difficult to conceal.

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Re:How to extract uranium from seawater for nuclear power (2... by PopeDotNinja on Friday May 01, 2020 @03:05AM (#23039719)

Illinois EnergyProf has a video I enjoyed on uranium enrichment.

https://youtu.be/z8mUCBG49N8

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Re:How to extract uranium from seawater for nuclear power (2... by fsh on Friday May 01, 2020 @02:21AM (#23039550)

Getting Uranium is not particularly hard anyway. The difficult bit is enriching it to weapons grade.

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