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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • There is around a century’s with of uranium with current mines.

    But right now uranium is very cheap so most of it is “wasted”. There is plenty of way of recycling used nuclear fuel or improving the productivity of uranium enrichment.

    If uranium supply starts to actually be a problem there is a way to “create” more nuclear fuel: breeder reactor.

    With breeder reactor France could fuel their reactor for millennia only with the depleted uranium they have in stock (when enriching uranium you end up with a tiny account of enriched uranium on one side and depleted uranium on the other, France is keeping the depleted uranium in stock specifically for this scenario)

    source (french)