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To: samtheman
I tried googling but can’t find out this “replenished” works. Does anyone have anything on this?

It's in the article:

However, seawater concentrations of uranium are controlled by steady-state, or pseudo-equilibrium, chemical reactions between waters and rocks on the Earth, both in the ocean and on land. And those rocks contain 100 trillion tons of uranium. So whenever uranium is extracted from seawater, more is leached from rocks to replace it, to the same concentration. It is impossible for humans to extract enough uranium over the next billion years to lower the overall seawater concentrations of uranium, even if nuclear provided 100% of our energy and our species lasted a billion years.

20 posted on 07/01/2016 5:23:00 PM PDT by justlurking
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To: justlurking

Thanks


24 posted on 07/01/2016 5:38:33 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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