Nuclear
How Long Before Uranium Shortages?
Key Points
- New nuclear power plants will take a minimum of 10 years to bring on line which is not fast enough to mitigate peak oil or climate change
- 429 active reactors in use today. New plants will barely replace existing ones reaching decommissioning stage in 10 years
- Skills of workforce have been greatly reduced due to lack of new plants being built.
- Nuclear plants are barely economical (see EROI)
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