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0 pointsBobaFloutist1y ago0 comments

Somehow you never hear these people say "What if the nuclear fuel supply chain becomes compromised for an arbitrarily extended period."

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Filligree1y 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.

akvadrako1y ago

It'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.

mpweiher1y ago

Or 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"

cykros1y ago

This is true even before you start talking about reprocessing spent fuel with breeder reactors.

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