[TonyPrep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mkwin', 'C')ase closed.

[Starvid]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', 'H')e's quite simply a troll whos goal is to bloat this thread with as much crap as possible.

[M_B_S]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Starvid', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', 'H')e's quite simply a troll whos goal is to bloat this thread with as much crap as possible.

[Dezakin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('M_B_S', 'I')ts so simple.........try to mine uranium or build / run a nuclear reactor without oil ..... its impossible.

[TheAntiDoomer]

usage.How long can Uranium last for nuclear power ? 5 billion years at double current world electricity

[Starvid]

Uranium seems to have stabilized around $65. This might be the new long term price now that the speculative bubble seems to have gone away.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Starvid', 'U')ranium seems to have stabilized around $65. This might be the new long term price now that the speculative bubble seems to have gone away.

[copious.abundance]

--> Bloomberg <--
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Paladin Energy Forecasts Doubling of Uranium Output This Year
By Angela Macdonald-Smith

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Paladin Energy Ltd., the Australian producer of uranium in Africa, said output is set to more than double this year as volumes increase at the Langer Heinrich mine in Namibia and a new project starts in Malawi.

Production should rise to 3.6 million pounds of uranium oxide in the year ending June 30, 2009, from 1.71 million in the preceding 12 months, Managing Director John Borshoff said on a conference call. Output should increase to 6.8 million pounds the following year, to 7.4 million in 2010-11 and 9.3 million in 2011-12, he said.

[...]

[copious.abundance]

Here's an event which promises to allow more uranium on the market:

--> Bloomberg <--
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Liberal Party Wins Government in Western Australia
By Robert Fenner

Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Colin Barnett will become the next premier of Western Australia after his Liberal Party won National Party support for a coalition government, opening the way for uranium mining and genetically modified crops in the state.

The National Party received ``very good'' proposals from the Liberals and incumbent Labor Party before making its decision, Nationals Leader Brendon Grylls told reporters in Perth today. The Liberals won 24 seats in the 59-seat lower house and will form a government with the support of four Nationals and two independent members, ending a week of uncertainty after the Sept. 6 poll left no party with a majority.

Barnett, who promised to open up uranium mines and allow genetically modified crops, will head a state that accounts for a third of the nation's exports with 10 percent of its population.

``Those key policies of uranium and genetically modified crops will come through very quickly,'' said Peter Van Onselen, associate professor in political science at Perth's Edith Cowan University. ``Between them they also control the upper house.''

[...]

[Tanada]

Their biggest fear has been over supply causing the price to drop too low, Canada and Australia really are like Sudi Arabia and Kuwait except for Uranium. Now that world demand is starting to pick up they feel safe producing more, however with the next generation RMWR in Japan undergoing detailed simulation prior to deciscion to build their window of opertunity is short. If they keep the price low enough they can kill the RMWR, if they guess wrong the RMWR will cut Uranium demand significantly even if we go all nuclear for 75% baseload electricity production.

[InToWishin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gorm', 'A')round here (Sweden), landfills are not used anymore and has not been for severeal [sic] years. They just created problems.

[Gorm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('InToWishin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gorm', 'A')round here (Sweden), landfills are not used anymore and has not been for severeal [sic] years. They just created problems.

[vaseline2008]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gorm', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('InToWishin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gorm', 'A')round here (Sweden), landfills are not used anymore and has not been for severeal [sic] years. They just created problems.

[the48thronin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gorm', 'N')uclear waste are never ever dumped on a landfill. Not even in the USA I guess.

[the48thronin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vaseline2008', 'T')hey have a "special" landfill for that...it's called Yucca Mountain, wait...that's in Nevada too!

[JPL]

Thanks 'the48thronin', this (the disposal issue) is possibly the most powerful arguement against further development of fission plants in the future.

It has been said before, but it's worth re-stating, namely that the 'safe disposal' arguement is still reliant on future generations having a society with a sufficient level of technological advancement to keep looking after the stuff (our toxic waste) safely.

It may happen. No-one is saying it's impossible that the world 'say' 50 years in the future might be able to shoot the stuff into the sun or something. But we can also, all, envisage futures in which this might no be do-able. I personally think these latter scenarios are more likely.

Even with our current level of technology we are still not considering sensible solutions like (for example) digging a big shaft in Antartica and dropping it in, sealing it off and also making a big resolutions like not creating any more of the stuff. This is not a perfect solution but it is a practical one right now and may not be do-able in 20 years time. The only alternative as I see it is praying to our gods (once again) that the great alter of 'technological progress' will deliver us from these horrible problems.

Just some thoughts.

JP

[Gorm]

This is not an unmanagebel problem. You whine like frigthend children. LOL

Are we not men? We can deal with this.

[cipi604]

And usually men go to war. I'm not so sure that in the near future there's going to be somebody to change those tanks for the uranium fluoride gas, or keep the actual n.power plants working safely, mostly in a collapsing society.

Murphy's laws:

* If anything can go wrong, it will

* If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong

[Gorm]

When it goes wrong, fix it. Better then whining about it and stating that everything is going to fail no matter what.

[Gazzatrone]

Is it to simplistic to ask why Nuclear waste isn't encased in concrete and dumped in a Volcano?