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by titzer
1032 days ago
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> exhaust all the known accessible uranium deposits Uranium is everywhere. While there are mines that have extremely high concentrations of Uranium, it is present in trace amounts in almost everything from granite to sand to soil to groundwater. There are 4 billion tons of Uranium dissolved in the oceans. A number of projects have looked at filtering and extracting it from the oceans. It's relatively expensive to extract it from seawater, but not insane--4x-10x the cost of mining. We won't run out. https://deeply.thenewhumanitarian.org/oceans/articles/2018/0... > I believe I read the estimate is something like 50 years? It's more like 200 years. And that's "economically accessible", not accessible. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-glo... |
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