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Re:The Scariest, Most Boring Armageddon by adrianN on Sunday January 31, 2016 @01:11PM (#11007248)
Good luck extracting all the Thorium and Uranium from an average rock and refining it sufficiently to fuel a nuclear reactor.
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Re:The Scariest, Most Boring Armageddon by beefman on Sunday January 31, 2016 @05:38PM (#11008488)
Without understanding anything about it, it's natural to assume it must be difficult. Otherwise, why wouldn't more people be doing it? As noted in the article, coal mostly sat in the ground for thousands of years before 1750, when all of a sudden mining it was the obvious thing to do. Why?
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