Was wondering about how long nuclear power would be sustainable for. Could we run out of the elements required?
Is there a time line if we shift to all nuclear.
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With current data, depending on what you consider reasonable sources of nuclear fuel, the reserves will be somewhere around a few decades to over a hundred years. The time frames depends on the energy consumption, the industrialization of poorer countries, shift to other sources of power, re-using nuclear weapons, discovering new usable sources (speculative resources) and technologies where we get creative with physics.
As our climate problems increase we could indeed see a sharp rise in the cost of nuclear power due to limited supply … one reason more switch to a regenerative source of power for most of our demands and use limited sources of power for balancing things out.
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