[roenxi]

There are 100 years of uranium reserves available. Nobody is looking for more. If they were, they're probably going to find it.

Exploration programs are expensive.

[elproxy]

Yes, sure, we can go mine the bottom of the oceans and extract it by centrifuging ocean waters, that probably would give us marginally more than a doubling of margin. Point remains: reserves are exhaustible, an exponential consumption may not be desirable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium#:~:text=As%20of%2....