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Uranium isn't necessary. A breeder reactor could manufacture plutonium, or a thorium fueled design could be used. Nuclear power isn't constrained by fuel sca
by Accujack 6y ago
Uranium isn't necessary. A breeder reactor could manufacture plutonium, or a thorium fueled design could be used.
Nuclear power isn't constrained by fuel scarcity at all. If anything, we have too much fissionable material.
- CaptArmchair 6y agoAbsolutely. I understand that there are alternatives and options. My concern isn't scarcity. It's that the confidence in those options is rooted in tenuous predictions about commercial viability in the far future. That is, how a transition to these alternatives would conceivably integrate in and have an impact on larger market dynamics, and they way they might be either furthered or impeded by local, regional or geo-political dynamics.