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Renewable and green are orthogonal. Renewable is important for long term availability of the resource, which is not a practical constraint for nuclear.

• danans 4y ago
  > which is not a practical constraint for nuclear. It is very much a practical constraint for current nuclear reactors (whether traditional or SMR) whose uranium supply chains lead straight to problem zones [1]. Using conventionally mined uranium, traditional reactors would only provide 5 years of the world's electricity demand [2]. Seawater-extracted uranium could stretch into the thousands of years, but that is unproven at scale and cost. Similarly unproven are the fast breeder reactors needed to truly make the non-renewability of nuclear moot. 1. https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/blogs/electric-power/070722-global-nuclear-fuel-supply-chain-uranium-russia-ukraine-war https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight... 2. https://phys.org/news/2011-05-nuclear-power-world-energy.html#:~:text=Uranium%20abundance%3A%20At%20the%20current,for%20less%20than%205%20years https://phys.org/news/2011-05-nuclear-power-world-energy.htm....