Re: Global heating and stupid greens

[Jim Muckerheide <jmuckerheide@delphi.com>]

Does anyone know if the Japanese work on extracting U from seawater is still
active? and the current cost estimate of such recovery?  I thought it had been
only about 10 times mined U prices back before the prices dropped.

Also, there was an announcement in the last few weeks of a large U find that
would significantly affect "known reserves." Does anyone recall that
announcement (I didn't pay much attention at the time.)

Regards, Jim
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Bernard L Cohen wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Tom Savin wrote:
> 
>   One final thought, or question, does anyone know what, or how long we would
>  be able to depend on nuclear power (how long our U235 would last, afterall,
>  there is a limited amount)?  This way one can determine how long we have to
>  get technology up to speed to save humanity.
> 
>         --The price of uranium is at an all time low, and supplies are
> plentiful. There would surely be enough for at least 50 years, and
> probably for 100 years, at reasonable prices. The price would go up after
> that, but it would not go up ten times over past prices for hundreds of
> years. With breeder reactors, there is plentiful fuel for as long as life
> can continue on Earth, a few billion years, without raw fuel prices
> increasing the price of electricity by as much as 1%.
> 
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