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> Fission may have plenty of issues, but lets not pretend that the entire world is "fusion or bust". Unfortunately , that’s no how it’s work. Yes fission is g
by asien 5y ago
> Fission may have plenty of issues, but lets not pretend that the entire world is "fusion or bust".
Unfortunately , that’s no how it’s work.
Yes fission is great ! France runs on Fission it works greats.
Problem ? In 2015 at the current rate of consumption 130 years of uranium left on earth !
Sadly for us International Nuclear association estimated that if most country shifted to Nuclear that uranium would shift from 130 to just 30 years...
Regardless of how your turn the problem you’ll always end up to the same solution to satisfy the world need for energy :fusion.
Especially if you intend to have EV widely deployed.
- nickik 5y ago> Problem ? In 2015 at the current rate of consumption 130 years of uranium left on earth ! First of all, this is nonsense. The same old peak-blabla nonsense. Second of all, thorium can be used in current reactors. Third, thorium is practically unlimited. Existing nuclear 'waste' and nuclear bombs contain huge amounts of potential energy as well. With newer reactors these limits can be further broken by moving from terrible utilization to much higher utilization. And lets not ignore that modern CO2 turbines can improve efficiency by a further 20% at least. There is absolutely no limit to fission in any theoretical or practical sense. Its arguably renewable as volcanoes transport new thorium to the surface.
- selectodude 5y agoUranium is practically unlimited too. We can extract it from seawater for $200/kg.