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Imagine using easily expendable and non-renewable resources, subjecting the very processes our civilization is sustained by to a great risk of failure while having an almost inexhaustible source of energy that was invented more than 50 years ago.

Surely that would be a madness and no reasonable organization would do this, right?

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According to IAEA data, there is considerably more minable coal than uranium on earth (by extractible energy). Current nuclear reactors are not scalable to global energy requirements.

Is that "more" by mass, or energy content?

Energy content of course. Uranium contains quite some energy, but it is also extremely rare. Without breeders, it would be exhausted in a few years.

Is the inexhaustible uranium in your comment?

I’m unclear. Uranium is fine. But it’s totally exhaust-able.

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