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How this Idaho scientist’s firm found a way to mine a vast new source of nuclear fuel

September 5, 2018 /

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Imagine an artificial kelp forest of yarn that can extract uranium from seawater. Sound like science fiction? Not if Chien Wai has anything to say about it.

Wai is president of LCW Supercritical Technologies https://www.lcwsupertech.com/ , a company based in Moscow, which develops green technologies for environmental and materials research. Together with researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Sequim, Washington, they have created a technology that is capable of filtering uranium and other heavy metals from the open ocean.

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