Hi,
Regarding the issue of uranium availability:
On 11/02/2025 5:50, David Walters via groups.io wrote:
Good question. We use about 70,000 tons a year as fuel for reactors and
for military weapons. Uranium, like any raw material commodity under the
political economy of Imperialism reserves of it depend on what the price
may be, per pound, at any given time. When the price goes down, the
"amount" of "economically recoverable reserves" goes down. When the
price goes up, suddenly the amount goes up as well.
[...]
Another consideration is that there are extremely large amounts of
recoverable uranium from ocean water filtration. The only major
hindrance to doing so is the price and the fact there are more easily
accessible sources of it. If we include filtration, the answer is not so
much decades as centuries, possibly longer.
There's ongoing work on this problem, for example:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/uranium-from-seawater
It should also be pointed out that nuclear power, unlike, say, fossil
fuels, is relatively insensitive to fuel cost. It's not that it doesn't
matter at all, but the fuel is a much smaller fraction of total cost of
production for nuclear than it is for other fuels. which means even very
significant increases in price would not especially impede production.
Regards,
--Modulus
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