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How Long Before Uranium Shortages?

Posted by Gail the Actuary on February 19, 2009 - 10:16am
Topic: Alternative energy
Tags: uranium, uranium mining, uranium price [list all tags]

There is a great deal of controversy about how much uranium will be available for future use. I decided to check to see for myself, and came to the conclusion that we are likely headed for problems within the next ten years. Below the fold are a few things I discovered, in looking through reports available on the Internet.

Figure 1. Energy Watch Group: Demand Scenarios together with Forecast of Uranium Production Using Three Different Reserve Estimates (from this 2006 report)

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