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Re:2015 “smashed” 2014’s global temperature record by flubert on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @06:06PM (#10942116)
Okay, it is wikipedia, but:

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

"Adherents claim that with seawater uranium extraction, there would be enough fuel for breeder reactors to satisfy our energy needs for 5 billion years at 1983's total energy consumption rate, thus making nuclear energy effectively a renewable energy."

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Re:2015 “smashed” 2014’s global temperature record by DasIch on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @06:38PM (#10942307)
There are only four breeder reactors in operation, we'd need a lot more rather quickly for them to be useful.

Also as with all things nuclear there are an awful lot of claims and not a lot of known things here. Nuclear somehow always looks much better in theory than it does in practice.

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Re:2015 “smashed” 2014’s global temperature record by civilian on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @06:32PM (#10942271)
Yeah, breeder reactors are even mentioned in the sciam article that nostromo posted. He's cherry-picking his info.
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