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Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by Filligree on Friday September 20, 2024 @01:26PM (#41603996)
Because it’s reasonably cheap to buy two decades of fuel in advance, and it won’t take up much space. If such a thing were a concern, then people would do precisely that.

If it were still a problem towards the end of that period, then you can in fact extract uranium from seawater.

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Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by cykros on Saturday September 21, 2024 @01:06AM (#41607628)
This is true even before you start talking about reprocessing spent fuel with breeder reactors.
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Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by akvadrako on Saturday September 21, 2024 @04:20AM (#41608444)
It's also plentiful in many countries, it's just not mined because it's too cheap. But since fuel is under 1% of the cost of Nuclear, if it was a problem we could easy mine more difficult places.
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Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by mpweiher on Saturday September 21, 2024 @06:58AM (#41609145)
Or start recycling the "waste". Which still contains >95% of the energy of the original fuel.

Problem is: raw Uranium is too plentiful (=cheap) for recycling to be worth it.

"Problem"

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