Saturday, January 23, 2010
"Global Uranium Supply and Demand"
100 years ago there was a prevailing thought that horse manure was a future problem.
Enough said...
Enough said...
Toni Johnson Writes about it at cfr.org:
"The world uses 67,000 tons of mined uranium a year. At current usage, this is equal to about seventy years of supply. The World Nuclear Association says demand is projected to grow by 33 percent in the next decade to correspond with a 27 percent projected growth in nuclear reactor capacity. However, more efficient nuclear reactors, such as 'fast-reactor' technology, could extend those supplies by more than two thousand years. Experts say spent fuel can be reprocessed for use in reactors but currently is less economical than new fuel. Currently, there are nearly one thousand commercial, research, and ship reactors worldwide; more than fifty are under construction, and 130 are in planning stages."
