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Old 19th-July-2008, 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by prashamk View Post
I had read somewhere that we are having enough uranium to last around 100 years at current consumption rates. Moreover thorium too can be used as fuel and it is abundant.

Above all if during all this time we can build faster reactors, the same fuel can be used for much much longer time.

Please pardon me if I am wrong.
I thought the biggest problem with Nuclear Power expansion was the increased potential for weapons proliferation...

I never argue that the fuel will run out and most don't seem to acknowledge this as THE problem.
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