Recovery of uranium from seawater using
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Kyoichi Saito; Kazuya Uezu; Takahiro Hori; Shintaro Furusaki; Takanobu Sugo; Jir
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Article
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1988
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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English
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The concentration of uranium in seawater is remarkably constant at 3.3 mg U/m3. The main uranium species in seawater is the stable anionic tricarbonate-uranyl complex, UO,(CO,):- (Saito and Miyauchi, 1981, 1982). Marine uranium displays no detectable deviation from the norrnal terrestrial U-235/U-23