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Because it’s reasonably cheap to buy two decades of fuel in advance, and it won’t take up much space. If such a thing were a concern, then people would do preci
by Filligree 2y ago
Because it’s reasonably cheap to buy two decades of fuel in advance, and it won’t take up much space. If such a thing were a concern, then people would do precisely that.
If it were still a problem towards the end of that period, then you can in fact extract uranium from seawater.
- cykros 2y agoThis is true even before you start talking about reprocessing spent fuel with breeder reactors.
- akvadrako 2y agoIt's also plentiful in many countries, it's just not mined because it's too cheap. But since fuel is under 1% of the cost of Nuclear, if it was a problem we could easy mine more difficult places.
- mpweiher 2y agoOr start recycling the "waste". Which still contains >95% of the energy of the original fuel. Problem is: raw Uranium is too plentiful (=cheap) for recycling to be worth it. "Problem"