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Originally posted by red-beard
Unless the alternative is Nuclear. Then we are "virtually' unlimited.
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China is building 30 cutting-edge nuclear pebble reactors. Helium cooling, virtually melt down proof. Amazing technology. The spent fuel (rdioactive waste) is mixed in heavily leaded glass blocks. The only possible exposure is from the surfaces of the block. Even if the block is fractured, the surface area is only slightly increased and there is no wholesale environmental threat. The blocks can be safely buried. They are seismically stable.
By the time we get short of uranium, we will have fusion reactors.