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hunter

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12. Many modern nuclear power schemes would not require any further uranium mining.

Reply to ihas2stinkyfeet (Reply #11)

Mon Sep 14, 2020, 05:06 PM

Sep 2020

They'd be powered by light water reactor "waste" and depleted uranium.

Stuff that's already been mined.

For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower

And when that waste is gone, more than a century from now, we might turn to a wide variety of mine tailings.

Beyond that, uranium extracted from the ocean in desalinization schemes... essentially forever so long as we humans limit our numbers to something sustainable.

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Sustainable Iron-Making Using Oxalic Acid: The Concept, A Brief Review of Key Reactions... [View all] NNadir Sep 2020 OP

thx for this. i love it. brains over braun. ihas2stinkyfeet Sep 2020 #1

I'm pretty sure you meant to post this in another thread. n/t. NNadir Sep 2020 #2

no. ihas2stinkyfeet Sep 2020 #3

Thanks, then. I wasn't sure how to interpret... NNadir Sep 2020 #4

ooo. my bad. ihas2stinkyfeet Sep 2020 #5

But you don't wonder how the "cradle to grave" costs of climate change "add up?" NNadir Sep 2020 #6

oh no. i didnt say or mean that. ihas2stinkyfeet Sep 2020 #7

If Zion, or for that matter, Fukushima's destroyed reactors sit unattended as long as the... NNadir Sep 2020 #8

well i mostly do agree w you. ihas2stinkyfeet Sep 2020 #9

You are placing a very unlikely could over a very real "is." NNadir Sep 2020 #10

honest question- i dont know. how many ppl die mining nuclear materials? ihas2stinkyfeet Sep 2020 #11

Many modern nuclear power schemes would not require any further uranium mining. hunter Sep 2020 #12

The photo-reduction step seems a bit contrived. hunter Sep 2020 #13

I agree. This said there are many paths for the single electron transfer reduction of iron. NNadir Sep 2020 #14

some day we will mine the landfills. ihas2stinkyfeet Sep 2020 #15