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I don't understand why they would be so concerned with keeping this stuff away from iran for example.  If anybody desired the substance enough they could extract it from seawater.  There is approximatly 3mg of uranium in every cubic meter of seawater on the planet.  You can extract heavy metals from water with bundles of clothes made out of synthetic fibers such as nylon which have had hemiaminal functional groups attached to them.

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It just costs 15+ times as much as it does to dig the uranium out of the ground.