The ocean’s nuclear energy reserve
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Sotira Yiacoumi; Alexander I. Wiechert; Costas Tsouris
- Source
- Nature Sustainability. 5:13-14
- Subject
- Global and Planetary Change
Resource (biology)
Ecology
Waste management
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Geography, Planning and Development
chemistry.chemical_element
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Uranium
Nuclear power
Urban Studies
chemistry
Sustainability
Environmental science
Seawater
business
Energy (signal processing)
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Food Science
- Language
- ISSN
- 2398-9629
Oceanic uranium represents a vast fuel resource that could ensure the long-term sustainability of nuclear power. A new study seeks to harness that potential by developing a bioinspired adsorbent membrane capable of capturing uranium from seawater.