Nuclear fuel isn't just uranium. With enough neutrons you can fission just about anything on down to lead. However, the most promising fuel is thorium. When

Nuclear fuel isn't just uranium. With enough neutrons you can fission just about anything on down to lead. However, the most promising fuel is thorium. When Thorium-232 gets 1 more neutron it decays in 30 days to Uranium-233, the perfect nuclear fuel which almost burns completely and leaves minimal waste. A molten salt reactor with thorium as fuel was proven 50 years ago. For more info see this wired article: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_new_nukes/ http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_new_nukes/ and this site: http://energyfromthorium.com/ http://energyfromthorium.com/ Oh btw, there are literal beaches of Thorium in India. And it's a byproduct of most mining processes. The U.S. has about 3000 tons stockpiled doing nothing. 1 ton of thorium roughly equals 1 GW of power for a year.