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Uranium is a renewable resource from seawater (see, e.g., https://spectrum.ieee.org/uranium-from-seawater https://spectrum.ieee.org/uranium-from-seawater). It i
by RagnarD 4y ago
Uranium is a renewable resource from seawater (see, e.g., https://spectrum.ieee.org/uranium-from-seawater https://spectrum.ieee.org/uranium-from-seawater). It is, by far, the highest power density, cleanest, and safest source of power.
The total waste generated (waste which France routinely recycles) from all nuclear power in the U.S. since commercial inception could fit into a volume of a football field with a height of about 10 yards (see https://www.nei.org/fundamentals/nuclear-waste https://www.nei.org/fundamentals/nuclear-waste)
Small modular reactors are even safer and more economical and are ready to go.
Only environmentalist irrationality has suppressed development of nuclear energy, and it's up to anyone who wants reliable electrical power to dismiss their propaganda and promote greatly increased adoption worldwide.
- BizarroLand 4y agoThe paranoiac in me would easily lead me to believe that big oil propped up the anti-nuclear environmentalism of the 80's in order to eke out an additional 40-60 years of energy supremacy. I don't always listen to that kind of my own thinking, but it is plausible enough to me.
- kitkat_new 4y agohow is Uranium renewable?
- RagnarD 4y agoBecause there's an essentially unlimited amount that's recoverable from seawater and more is always being added into solution from rocks. I gave a link already to one article on extraction from seawater, it's easy to find much more about that.