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The Coming Uranium Crisis

tcd004 writes "MIT reports that the world is running out of fuel for our nuclear reactors due to production limitations and an aging infrastructure. Nuclear power has gained popularity as a carbon-free energy source in recent years, but Dr. Thomas Neff, a research affiliate at MIT's Center for International Studies, warned that fuel scarcity could drive up prices and kill the industry before it gets back on its feet. Passport has pulled together some interesting numbers: there are 440 reactors currently in operation and 82 new plants under construction. The demand for fuel has driven the price of uranium up more than 40% in the last few months — 900% over the last decade. You can follow the spot price for a pound of uranium. "

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  1. BitJch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    achieve any of the at my freelance gains market share are allowed to play World-5panning lead developers and committees

  2. Re:Breeders, reprocessing, thorium, no such things by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Folks, before you hop on a wishful bandwagon, how about making sure there is a wagon?

    you mean like that linux crap people keep spouting off about? i agree 100%

  3. We laugh at you when you post stuff like this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    We know your petty little mongoloid feelings have been hurt. Your Daddy Bush is a drunken coward who's fallen off the wagon. The right wing is failing, the whole country hates you now. You and your kind are a laughing stock, and your vicious little posts only make us laugh all the harder.

    YOU LOSE, so sorry, buh-bye. You and your kind will go down in the history books as failures, criminals and charlatans, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it except post anonymous whiny rants whenever anyone jokes about your side's failures, which happen ALL THE TIME nowadays, don't they?

    We ALL laugh at you when you post stuff like this, because you are showing us who and what you really are, and it's no longer scary, it's just pathetic and funny.

    1. Re:We laugh at you when you post stuff like this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      U R A Liberal

      U like Gay Butt Dongs...

      i'm laughing at that...