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SuperCritical Materials licenses technology for uranium seawater extraction
Last week, Austin, Texas–based nuclear fuel start-up SuperCritical Materials announced that it has secured a license from the Department of Energy for a patented uranium and critical materials adsorbent manufacturing process originally developed by a team led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
SuperCritical aims to use this license to extract uranium from seawater at an industrial scale in the United States and abroad.
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With more than 60 years operating in the U.S., Orano USA is a leading technology and services provider in commercial and federal markets for advanced reactors, uranium conversion and enrichment, used nuclear fuel storage and transport, site cleanup and remediation, and useful radioactive isotopes.