It lends itself to despotic elite rule a lot less effectively than oil though, as you need so much less of it and the economic cost of it is so much less. Cons

It lends itself to despotic elite rule a lot less effectively than oil though, as you need so much less of it and the economic cost of it is so much less. Consider if you compare the cost of keeping a petroleum-burning 5 MW plant going for 40 years vs. a nuclear one. How many tankers full of $100 per barrel oil would that be? Just the fuel used by the tankers themselves would dwarf the uranium ore needed for the nuclear plant. That's not even taking into account newer designs that could be powered from the existing waste of older plants. As for despotic elite rule, that's what we have faced for decades with oil. Uranium ore is found on all continents, with the largest supplies in Australia and Canada. Oil is run by the Saudis, Putin, Maduro...