Uranium = Renewable Resource????

We've always heard of different energy sources being renewable...... Wind energy, hydroelectric and also the solar energy are some of the renewable energy sources. These renewable energy sources are clean and of the abundance in our beautiful earth.

However, what if I would like to say that the heart and core of the nuclear reactor, URANIUM!!! is also one of the renewable resource for us to exploit. Apparently, the supply of uranium on earth would still be there even after the earth has become uninhabitable... Unless everyone of us suddenly starts going green and preserving the environment of the world... Then that would be a different story.... But from the looks of things, the humans would have long left the earth or the worst case scenario dead before the supply of uranium would be depleted....

Apparently, a japanese guy with the name of Masao Tamada from the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency stated that there is an extremely huge amount of uranium dissolved in the seawater. There are around 4.5 billion tons of uranium dissolved in the seawater in which is equivalent to a thousand times of the amount found in terrestrial ores. Soon, the uranium which is from the seawater would be used as resources for the demand of the ever energy craving society in the future.

Tamada pointed out that there were researches on uranium absorbing materials that has been going on since quite some time ago which can be traced back into the 1960's. However, one should note that 'mining' uranium from the sea is more expansive than mining uranium from the ground which is as expensive as 300 dollar per kg. However, if the mined uranium is being used for power generation, it would still be considered as inexpensive.

It should be noted that new uranium would constantly be flowing into the sea whether through rivets and also through under water sources. Therefore, should harvesting of uranium from the sea becomes a major bloom of the industry, the constant amount of uranium being channeled into the sea would be able to replace the uranium that has been harvested.

Therefore, URANIUM IS A RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE!!!!


Anyways, below is a graphical flow chart showing the process of uranium being mined from the earth