Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Gains Traction

Re:Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Ga... by defrost on Friday November 03, 2023 @08:46PM (#38136896)

For those that like "just the facts" re: supply, demand, exploration

Uranium 2022: Resources, Production and Demand

    Uranium is the main raw material fuelling all nuclear fission reactors today. Countries around the world use it to reliably generate low-carbon electricity, process heat and hydrogen as part of their plans to reduce carbon emissions and increase energy security and supply. There is no nuclear fission power possible – of whatever kind – without uranium.

    This 29th edition of the “Red Book”, a recognised world reference on uranium jointly prepared by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), provides analyses and information from 54 uranium producing and consuming countries.

    The present edition reviews world uranium market fundamentals and presents data on global uranium exploration, resources, production and reactor-related requirements. It offers updated information on established uranium production centres and mine development plans, as well as projections of nuclear generating capacity and reactor-related requirements through 2040.

https://www.oecd.org/publications/uranium-20725310.htm

D/loadable PDF (568 pages): https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/connect/UPCpublic/Documents/U...

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met...

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Re:Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Ga... by dividendpayee on Friday November 03, 2023 @09:30PM (#38137192)

Besides the point, but why would you abbreviate "Downloadable" as "D/loadable"? The confusion vs. two extra letters trade-off doesn't seem worth it at all to me.

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Re:Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Ga... by defrost on Friday November 03, 2023 @09:55PM (#38137333)

People vary a great deal, for example the trade-off in making a lengthy comment from a meconium account doesn't seem worth it to me.

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Re:Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Ga... by godelski on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:18PM (#38137481)

I'm uncertain if this was a joke or not, but either way I laughed.

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Re:Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Ga... by goldenkey on Saturday November 04, 2023 @12:11AM (#38138060)

Same and it only cost me time to laugh and comment. In those seconds, the wavefunction of the universe shifted to a hellscape. Use your time carefully /Fluke/Luke/s!

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Re:Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Ga... by permo-w on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:27PM (#38137544)

reminds of the plastic vs cotton bag carbon footprint debate

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Re:Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Ga... by TaylorAlexander on Friday November 03, 2023 @11:50PM (#38137990)

It's particularly funny to me to save two characters while linking to a 568 page PDF.

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Re:Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Ga... by KennyBlanken on Friday November 03, 2023 @09:38PM (#38137235)

Nuclear is not "low carbon" electricity unless you're a simpleton who can't look beyond "there's no smokestack at the plant."

Of course a document prepared by two nuclear energy groups claim that nuclear power is "low carbon."

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Re:Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Ga... by PNewling on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:06PM (#38137405)

Asking this as someone who might be a simpleton and always assumed it was a low carbon way of energy production:

How is it not 'low carbon'?

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Re:Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Ga... by Izikiel43 on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:15PM (#38137466)

He is probably referring to the carbon generated by the construction of the facility, which is still orders of magnitudes less than a coal plant over its lifetime.

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Re:Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Ga... by godelski on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:35PM (#38137590)

I mean if we're talking lifetime emissions even the IPCC places nuclear pretty fucking low and refers to it as a low-carbon energy source. So I don't think anyone should be to blame for using that term. It's the exact term used in the scientific literature...

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Re:Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Ga... by AnthonyMouse on Friday November 03, 2023 @11:40PM (#38137952)

A lot of this is also kind of silly accounting. For example, if you have to put materials on a truck to build the plant, and operate construction equipment, and these things burn diesel, you can count that as CO2 emissions. But you can also use electric trucks charged from non-fossil fuel generation and that goes away.

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Re:Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Ga... by RC_ITR on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:07PM (#38137411)

Are you doing that cyclical thing where you incorporate the fossil fuels burned in the mining of uranium etc?

Would you believe that those are actually hydrocarbon emissions that would be eliminated if we took electrification seriously?

https://electrek.co/2022/11/23/caterpillar-demonstrates-firs...

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Re:Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Ga... by jvanderbot on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:11PM (#38137437)

I would pay to watch these mental gymnastics in action.

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Re:Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Ga... by bagels on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:13PM (#38137455)

Calling people who you think may not have the same information as you "simpletons" is not really a way to win hearts and minds.

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