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Clinton did not have any authority to deny that trade deal. Uranium One isn't even an American company. For a couple years, some uranium was exported to Canada for processing, and returned to the US. Due to how that works, it can technically be said that some uranium mined in the US in that brief period was exported to Japan and western Europe. No one in the US sold a damn thing.

You are a liar.

I'm not sure what you think that the Mueller investigation has leaked. The only things public so far are the court filings, and when one of those leaked last year, the red team was all over it. Because it's illegal to do that (unless you're investigating a Democrat). The news media tries their best to make the court filings into a story, but they're really not getting a lot of information about what's happening, and that's a good thing. Conversely, if you think that there has been some substantial amount of leaking, I'm sure that Team Trump would be extremely happy to have that as an argument for Mueller's dismissal. Good luck with that.

If you think that there was something scandalous about Uranium One you're fucking retarded. Uranium One isn't even an American company, and the only one with veto power on that deal was Obama. Clinton sold nothing, could not have sold anything, and had a minimal role even in rubber-stamping this trade deal. The uranium in question generally stayed in the US. Some was exported for processing, and an equivalent amount of processed uranium was returned to the US, but technically it can be said that some of the uranium was exported to western Europe due to something called book transfer.

That's it. No bribes, no crimes, just a big fat Republican lie, and you are apparently the kind of idiot who repeats lies, long after they're proven false. Burn in hell.

The upper limit price for about the next hundred years, even with exponential growth, is near $4000/kilo, or an increase of around 4000%; at that point, extraction from seawater becomes economically practical. Back at that last big price spike (see previously linked graph) in the late 1970's the Japanese set up a pilot plant, which ended up showing about that level of cost. They had hoped it would work better than it did, and it was good research, but immediately most un-useful given the way prices fell back by the time (1986) they had it producing.

And, speaking of things others will probably mention, plutonium extraction from ANY kind of used fuel is a prerequisite for breeders, BTW, and we've already been holding back on that due to proliferation worries.

When I saw the historical price graph of Uranium ( http://www.uranium.info/prices/monthly.html ), it struck me that as very similar to a historical price graph of gasoline/oil ( http://zfacts.com/p/35.html ).

[reaches for tinfoil hat]
CONSPIRACY!!!

Before you declare nuclear to be the end-all of things, have a look to this graph, showing a seven-fold increase in uranium prices during the last four years. Essentially the same thing that happened to the oil price. Out of interest, how many percent of running cost of a nuclear plant is fuel? For wind, it's zero.

Of course, there's the long-term option of fast breeder reactors and fancy new technology, but I have yet to see a proposal that makes them economically viable - against wind power, that is. Or even gas.

Widely unnoticed by the general public, which is all caught up in Peak Oil yes-or-no discussions, Uranium faces the very same problems as fossil fuels, but they seem to be worse.

From this article: In 2001 the European Commission said that at the current level of uranium consumption, known uranium resources would last 42 years. With military and secondary sources, this life span could be stretched to 72 years. Yet this rate of usage assumes that nuclear power continues to provide only a fraction of the worlds energy supply.

And here is the actual development of Uranium price over the last century:
http://www.uranium.info/prices/monthly.html (note that the peak around '78 about coincides with the peak of the US and Soviet nuclear arsenal during the Cold War)

And here you have, again, the development of Uranium prices over the past 4 years:http://www.cameco.com/investor_relations/ux_ history/historical_ux.php(flash required for the small graphic, but the numbers are there in plain text)

Now if not only China builds dozens of reactors, but the western industrialized world as well, nuclear (i.e. fission) energy stops looking to be very attractive in the long run. Give us fusion (hot or cold), or give us renewable energy as our main source, but don't try to balance two resources which are ultimately limited and might well be seeing their practical end within our century. Don't floor the gas pedal if you know you will have to stop eventually, either by slowing down yourself or by being slowed down by a concrete wall.