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by Blammar 1392 days ago
Got a citation for your claim about the U supply? And there are reactor designs that burn much more of the U in the fuel...
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142152...

Or Sabine Hossenfelder's explanation https://youtu.be/0kahih8RT1k?t=365

Current reactors use U235 which is less than 1% of all Uranium on the planet. Don't know about reactors that use other uranium isotopes, but if after 70 years they are still at the design stage, it kind of makes my point. It's just too late to turn that around. The article just overlooks this fundamental problem.

Thanks for the links!