Re: uranium in seawater

[maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>]

Awww right, you guys had better knock this off! God'll getcha' for this kind of

stuff! To say nothing about what will descend about your ears when EPA finds

out!  Jeez, you guys like to live dangerously!  Don't you realize that if it had

been intended for you to look at all these rectangular computer monitors, you'd

have been born with square eyes? And J. Cohen is hereby penalized ten (10)

attaboys.

Cheers, grins, and happy USA birthday to all,

Maury                maury@webtexas.com

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jjcohen wrote:



> Marco,

>     I believe you will find that the concentrations of Uranium and just

> about all other naturally occurring toxic elements in seawater exceed

> drinking water standards.

>     If EPA approval had been required , God could not have created the

> ocean.

>

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: Marco Caceci <mcaceci@radal.com>

> To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 8:33 AM

> Subject: uranium in seawater

>

> > We all know that seawater has a lot (ppm range right?) of uranium in it.

> > The question is: where does uranium go once you make salt out of seawater?

> > My understanding is that

> > - water is taken out

> > - salt (NaCl) is taken out

> > - sometimes MgCl2 etc. are also precipitated out.

> > Had a chat on this a while ago, it seems that we have here a potential

> > source for U3O8 (I am told it is around $60/lb now), and a potential

> TENORM

> > hazard, for the delight of ecologists and terrorists alike.

> > Maybe somebody has a quick answer: how much uranium is left and where does

> > it eventually go? does anybody actually recover it?

> >

> > Marco

> >

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