EPISODE · Sep 7, 2026 · 6 MIN
China just cracked seawater uranium extraction—8 times better than US methods
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Chinese researchers at the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), have announced a novel material called PhosCage designed to extract dissolved uranium from seawater. PhosCage is described as a sponge-like, phosphate-based molecular structure ("chemical trap") that binds selectively to uranium ions.
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