[manfredo]

I don't think the idea is that it's meant to be competitive against extraction on land. What it does do is expand the potential uranium supply to make nuclear power viable as a global power supply on the order of hundreds of thousands of years at least.

[eloff]

It also gives a path to nuclear power and weapons for counties with no uranium deposits.

[X6S1x6Okd1st]

Is obtaining the uranium really the bottleneck?

[eloff]

It's a bottleneck, if you don't get past it, you're done. Uranium as far as I know, is a heavily regulated material. You can't buy nuclear reactor level amounts of refined uranium without the blessing of the states that control the supply. There are a LOT more problems after that though.