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The Skeptics Guide #851 - Oct 30 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Are We Going to Deplete Our Uranium Supply Within Five Years?

If we reprocessed spent nuclear fuel, rather than treating it as waste, we could thoretically extract up to 97 % of the energy in nuclear fuel. That's just based on existing nuclear waste in the us. And if we only are going to do like 20 % of power, let's say, from nuclear the novecy, that would be for 500 years. Wer we could do forty % for 250 years. That's without mining any more uranium. So and also, you know, using thorium, for example, as another type of cycle.

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