Discover Magazine reported to reinforce the world’s current supply of uranium researchers are suggesting harvesting yellowcake from the ocean.
As quoted in the market news:
Nuclear power depends on a steady supply of uranium. The good news is that we have at least a hundred years worth of uranium. The bad news is that both demand for uranium and the price of production are rising—and a hundred years isn’t all that long. To reinforce our stock of uranium, researchers have proposed a backup plan: gather it from the sea.
For every billion pounds of water in the ocean, there are 3.3 pounds of uranium—we just need to figure out how to extract it.
