China develops seawater co-production plant for hydrogen, fresh water, uranium

Chinese scientists at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics have built a small co-production plant that extracts hydrogen, fresh water, uranium, and bromine from seawater in a single system, improving electricity efficiency by ~15% over prior costly, energy-intensive methods. The technology, published in Nature, is at pilot scale and its commercial viability remains unproven. This could reduce costs for seawater-based resource extraction, with strategic implications for energy and nuclear fuel supply.