Chinese researchers have developed a new material capable of extracting uranium from seawater at more than eight times the target rate previously set by the US department of energy, SCMP reported. This marks a potential advancement in the global effort to tap the oceans as a vast source of nuclear fuel.

Researchers developed a material that they say opens up a ‘novel approach’ to recover the nuclear fuel from the world’s oceans.

Chinese researchers have developed a new material capable of extracting uranium from seawater at more than eight times the target rate previously set by the US department of…