The people of Namibia and Niger disagree. Low yield nuclear ore has lower usable energy density than coal, and being beaten by french and chinese mine owners t

The people of Namibia and Niger disagree. Low yield nuclear ore has lower usable energy density than coal, and being beaten by french and chinese mine owners then poisoned by heavy metal laden sulfuric acid isn't safe. Edit: On reflection, if you use a modern reactor and modern centrifuges, then the ore from Rossing produces 28MJ/kg of electricity. This is double that of coal. So this is slight hyperbole -- but not by much.