“We are running out of uranium” – we have 200 years supply at current rates, and if we started using a lot more and prices went up then that would make breeder reactors, for example more financially viable. These use less than 1 % of the uranium needed for current LWRs. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-global-uranium-deposits-last/
Financially viable thorium reactors would be awesome, but we don’t have to wait for that. Uranium is not running out – at least not in the simple and obvious meaning of “running out”.
Thanks for the correction—I recall reading that uranium would be exhausted within the century but looks like that was a bad source.
Given that timeline solar energy or some other material will presumably be able to displace uranium before we run out.
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“We are running out of uranium” – we have 200 years supply at current rates, and if we started using a lot more and prices went up then that would make breeder reactors, for example more financially viable. These use less than 1 % of the uranium needed for current LWRs. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-global-uranium-deposits-last/
Financially viable thorium reactors would be awesome, but we don’t have to wait for that. Uranium is not running out – at least not in the simple and obvious meaning of “running out”.
Thanks for the correction—I recall reading that uranium would be exhausted within the century but looks like that was a bad source.
Given that timeline solar energy or some other material will presumably be able to displace uranium before we run out.