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SuperCritical Materials Licenses Patented Uranium and Critical Materials Extraction Technology
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Fusion42 · 25 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
SuperCritical Materials has licensed patented uranium extraction technology from Battelle/PNNL to extract uranium from seawater at industrial scale, positioning itself to supply fuel for accelerating advanced reactor deployments and addressing the US domestic uranium supply bottleneck.
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Advanced reactors are coming online faster than the fuel supply chain can support them—and SuperCritical now owns the extraction tech the industry will need to buy. If you build reactor components, cooling systems, marine equipment, or materials for seawater processing, you're upstream of a critical bottleneck that just got a proven buyer.
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