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Paul Raven on ‘peak uranium

Posted at 11:03am and tagged with: quote, energy,.

…the most worrying problem is the misconception that uranium is plentiful. The world’s nuclear plants today eat through some 65,000 tons of uranium each year. Of this, the mining industry supplies about 40,000 tons. The rest comes from secondary sources such as civilian and military stockpiles, reprocessed fuel and re-enriched uranium. But without access to the military stocks, the civilian western uranium stocks will be exhausted by 2013…

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