Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years worth of nuclear fuel

Automated excerpt

Fluxnium thinks it has solved the problem of how to extract uranium from seawater. While uranium isn’t rare, as elements go, uranium mines aren’t plentiful or evenly distributed. “If you’re in the West, two-thirds, three-quarters of the world’s uranium supply comes from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Namibia, Niger, China. Fluxnium’s technology uses specially made polymer fibers that attract the uranium that’s dissolved in seawater.

Selected automatically from source text; not independently written or fact-checked. Read the original for full context.