Environmental pollution and resource shortage are two major problems in the current world.
Nuclear energy, a green energy with high energy density, has attracted extensive attention …

Uranium extraction from seawater (UES), a potential approach to securing the long-term
uranium supply and sustainability of nuclear energy, has experienced significant progress in …

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) represent an emerging class of organic photocatalysts.
However, their complicated structures lead to indeterminacy about photocatalytic active sites …

More than 1000× uranium exists in the oceans than exists in terrestrial ores. With nuclear
power generation expected to increase over the coming decades, access to this …

Resources and the environment are two eternal themes of social development. Nuclear
energy, a green source with high energy density, can greatly alleviate the pressure of the …

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is among the most utilized analytical methods for
nitrogen-doped carbon materials. Clarifying the assignments of nitrogen-doped carbon …

In total there is hundreds of times more uranium in sea water than on land, but extracting it
for use in nuclear power generation is challenging due to its low concentration (∼ 3 ppb) …

Uranium is the main element for nuclear energy production and is one of the most
hazardous radionuclides; its effective enrichment plays a key role in energy strategy and …

Uranium enrichment is perhaps the most critical chemical process throughout the nuclear
fuel cycle including uranium mining, uranium extraction from seawater, used fuel …

The use of enriched uranium ( 235 U) in nuclear fission reactors allows electricity generation
with negligible CO2 emissions. Thus, nuclear energy is expected to play an important role in …