The Oil Drum

This is a guest post by Miquel Torres. Miquel has a degree in Physics from the University of Valencia, he currently lives in Germany and works in secondary education and in the field of energy investment.

The main criticism made to my previous post about a paper by the Energy Watch Group, was that it is irrelevant whether current reserves are depleted because of three reasons: new discoveries will be made, increasing reserves, lower grade ores can be used, giving us many thousands of years of reserves at current or increased consumption rates and, at a high enough uranium price, reprocessing and MOX recycle would become economical, greatly increasing reserve life, and even a closed nuclear fuel cycle could be created with breeders, rendering the resource issue entirely moot. Those are fare points, and I will try to address them in this post.