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Fluxnium 16 Sept 2026 ko stealth se bahar aaya, $7 million seed round ke saath — Congruent Ventures ne led kiya, aur Active Impact Investments + Constellation Energy participate kiye.
Clean tech startup Fluxnium 16 September 2026 ko stealth mode se bahar aayi, jisne $7 million ka seed round lead kiya — Congruent Ventures ne, aur Active Impact Investments aur Constellation Energy ne participate kiya.
Fluxnium ke founder Jeff Green ka kehna hai ki samundar mein 4 billion+ metric ton dissolved uranium hai, jo ki identified hard-rock mines ke total se lagbhag 1,000 guna zyada hai. Iske matlab hai ki current demand ke hisaab se lagbhag 50,000 saal nuclear fuel ki supply hai.
Fluxnium special polymer fibers use karti hai jo seawater mein dissolved uranium ko kheenchte hain. Ye chemistry U.S. Department of Energy ke national labs se license li gayi hai, aur company ne fiber ki surface area badhane par focus rakha hai taaki zyada uranium extract ho sake.
Process simple hai: fibers ko 30-60 din ke liye offshore buoys par latke rehte hain, phir shore par laaye jaate hain aur uranium elute kar yellowcake mein convert kiya jaata hai. Koi toxic tailings nahi banti aur har fiber line kai baar reuse ho sakti hai.
EIA ke hisaab se yellowcake ke price pichle paanch saalon mein 75% badh chuke hain, aur world uranium supply ka 2/3 se 3/4 hissa Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Namibia, Niger aur China se aata hai — ye geopolitical risk banata hai. Fluxnium ka early national-lab demo $200 per pound se zyada cost aata tha, lekin company ka claim hai surface-area improvements ne cost significantly ghataya hai.
Tech Kaise Kaam Karti Hai
Fluxnium ke polymer fibers mein amidoxime groups hote hain jo seawater mein dissolved uranium ko selectively bind karte hain. Fibers ko braided lines mein banaake offshore buoys par latke rehte hain 30-60 din. Retrieve hone ke baad fibers shore par laaye jaate hain aur uranium elute karke yellowcake mein purify kiya jaata hai. Koi toxic tailings nahi banti aur har fiber line kai baar reuse ho sakti hai.
- Amidoxime chemistry wali polymer fibers
- 30-60 din offshore deployment
- Koi toxic tailings nahi, reusable lines
Kyun matter karta hai
Ye global nuclear fuel supply chain ko reshape kar sakta hai aur kai uranium-exporting deshon pe dependence kam kar sakta hai.
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Seawater uranium extraction se nuclear fuel supply practically inexhaustible ban sakti hai, jo global energy market badal de.
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Kazakhstan, Russia, aur China se uranium ki dependeness kam hone se geopolitical supply risk ease hogi.
Seedhi baat
Samundar mein 50,000 saal nuclear fuel ka uranium hai, aur Fluxnium ki fiber-based extraction usko economical banane ki koshish kar rahi hai.
Fluxnium ka seawater uranium extraction tech 50,000 saal tak civilization ko fuel de sakta hai.
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Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years' worth of nuclear fuel
↗Jeff Green raises $7M for Fluxnium's seawater uranium bet
↗Mining Uranium from Seawater
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4 claimsFluxnium 16 Sept 2026 ko stealth se bahar aaya, $7 million seed round ke saath — Congruent Ventures ne led kiya, aur Active Impact Investments + Constellation Energy (jo U.S. ka largest nuclear fleet operate karta hai) participate kiye.
Ocean mein 4 billion+ metric ton dissolved uranium hai — Jeff Green ke hisaab se ye identified hard-rock mines se lagbhag 1000 guna zyada hai, aur lagbhag 50,000 saal nuclear fuel ke kaafi hai.
Fluxnium special polymer fibers use karta hai jo seawater, mein dissolved uranium ko kheenchte hain. Chemistry DOE national labs se license li thi; company ne focus rakha fiber ki surface area badhane par taaki zyada uranium nikal sake.
EIA ke hisaab se yellowcake (unrefined uranium) ke price pichle 5 saalon mein 75% badh chuke hain. World uranium supply ka 2/3 to 3/4 hissa Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Namibia, Niger aur China se aata hai — ye geopolitical risk hai.
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Signal-only · not reporting“It's like a thousand times more than all identified hard rock mines combined.”