Breeder Reactors, Uranium from Phosphate and Near Term Thorium usage

Next Big Future ^ | September 22, 2008 | Brian Wang

[decimon]

How long Uranium can supply nuclear power is effected by the kinds of nuclear reactors that are used and the sources of Uranium that are used and

[decimon]

Good summation.

[Herakles]

with breeding should be able to supply all world needs assuming exponential demand for 500 years. The only way to solve the problem is to be able to produce fuel while it is consumed.

All other sources of energy are finite and all assume usage based on current data not assuming demand increase. Coal will only last 50 to 60 years with reliable estimations for demand.

[arthurus]

How long Uranium can supply nuclear power is effected by the kinds of nuclear reactors that are used

Good summation. Bad usage. The word is affected, not rffected. Effected renders it nonsensical.

[Bailee]

Breader Reactor Hmm how much a pure bred pair cost.

/S

[decimon]

The word is affected, not rffected. Effected renders it nonsensical.

Rbsolutely. And rranium shouldn't be capitalized.

[Billthedrill]

Rnless it's R²³⁵.

[arthurus]

grrrrrrr

[decimon]

Well, it’s a techie blog so I don’t much care how well they proofread it.

[ak267]

Some day, I hope this will all be moot. If they’re ever able to mine tritium-3 off the moon, fusion reactors would reshape the world.

bye bye OPEC...you jerks.