Forget
about oil: We're running out of URANIUM!, America Death Of
An Empire
09 September 2010By Jane Stillwater
"Let's all build a whole lot of nuclear plants," we
are constantly being told, "so that when we run out of
oil, we'll still have electricity made from nuclear
power!" But apparently there's just one major thing
wrong with that fantasy scenario (aside, of course,
from the fact that nuclear reactors keep on generating
deadly nuclear waste). According to a report from the
Clean Energy Research Center at the University of
Florida, we are probably going to run out of uranium
even before we run out of oil.
A recent article in the Deccan Chronicle entitled
"Uranium reserves to be over by 2050," http://www.deccanchronicle.com/national/%E2%80%98uranium-reserves-be-over-2050%E2%80%99-597
stated that "Energy experts warn that an acute
shortage of uranium is going to hit the nuclear energy
industry. Dr Yogi Goswami, co-director of the Clean
Energy Research Centre at the University of Florida
warns that 'the proven reserves of uranium will last
less than 30 years. Current nuclear plants consume
around 67,000 tons of high-grade uranium per year.
With present uranium deposits in the planet having
been estimated at 4-5 million tons, this means the
present resources would last 42 years.'"
According to Dan Kinch of www.NucNews.com, however,
this estimate seems overly optimistic. An article in
the MIT Technology Review has stated that there is now
a mismatch between uranium supply and its usage of
some 25,000 tons a year, and that this shortage has
only been compensated for by reprocessing weapons and
re-enriching uranium. "Michael Dittmar, from the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology, predicted that real
shortages could hit the industry by 2013." http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24414/
Wow. Just wow!
When I was a little girl back in the 1950s, I used to
have nightmares that my town was being wiped off the
map by evil nuclear bad guys who dropped a bomb on San
Francisco (I lived in Millbrae, right next to the SF
airport). The nightmare was always the same. I was
innocently eating lunch in the Green Hills elementary
school cafeteria and when I looked out through the
window, there was nothing to see but a blinding white
light -- and that light would be the last thing I
would ever remember, as I instantly melted down into
shadow and ash.
But now the human race has apparently been given
another chance. Now, if our leaders can only use
whatever brains they were born with and refrain from
blowing up the world for another three or ten or 42
years, I will stop having nightmares about being
melted to death by nuclear bombs -- because there will
be no more uranium to make them with! Yay! Hallelujah!
There might even still be a chance that I will be able
to peacefully die of old age in my bed!
If mankind is too stupid to save itself from itself,
then perhaps nature will be doing it for us. Yay!
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