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Sure but surely we'll run into the same issues with rare earth metals when building out over 18,000,000 solar farms. The numbers you use for uranium resources,
by JamesBarney 5y ago
Sure but surely we'll run into the same issues with rare earth metals when building out over 18,000,000 solar farms.
The numbers you use for uranium resources, are the amount that is economically extractable right now at current prices. Given that only 14% of the cost of a nuclear plant is raw fuel we have lots of room to increase to increase the cost of extraction.
And many places abandoned breeder reactors because the cost of uranium is cheap enough right now that fuel efficiency doesn't matter.
- pfdietz 5y agoSolar farms don't use rare earth metals, so, no, it's not the same at all. France's abandonment of their breeder program is the tell that they don't think there's any significant chance that nuclear will scale to power the world anytime soon.