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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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