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What do you make of the articles claim that a world running on 100% nuclear energy would exhaust all known uranium deposits within 25 years? Were they just lyin

• allovernow 7y ago
  I missed that part, but Here's a good summary rebuttal[1]. Exploration for uranium has been rather limited through history - more importantly, the question of reserves cannot be answered without considering price point. Just like petroleum, at $100/barrel there are far more economically recoverable reserves than $50/barrel, and uranium is currently so cheap in terms of MW/kg that fuel costs are orders of magnitude lower than building and even just operating costs for a plant, such that you can easily double or triple the current price of uranium without impacting generation costs. Moreover, focusing on uranium only is [deliberately?] myopic, as it ignores proven breeder reactor technology as well as alternative sources like Thorium which is far more abundant, requires minimal refinement (and iirc no enrichment) and carries additional benefits including no risk of proliferation. 1.http://www.americanenergyindependence.com/uranium.aspx http://www.americanenergyindependence.com/uranium.aspx
  • jessaustin 7y ago
    So "peak uranium" was just as false as "peak oil"?