thank you very much for your detailed elaboration on the subject, and the references. I was not aware of the bigger, geologic perspective:
~ 3 mg Uranium in 1 m^3 ocean water.
Makes sense, when one thinks about the relative ratio of chemical elements on earth. I guess, as always, it is the demonstration of chemical enrichment procedures that is the key here, and there is currently no economic incentive to do such a thing. Although, I have not looked into current fuel production procedures. How expensive is 1g (sufficiently) pure Uranium fuel?
The sentence that our energy requirements could be covered with breeder reactor systems for 50K years made my smile, though. It will be probably the lack of higher "level fuels" such as proteins and carbohydrates that give us headaches, first.
Please note that I am not at all hypercritical regarding nuclear energy. There is a lot of industrial and green propaganda out there, and it is sad to see that we scientist are loosing the battle in media. Too often, rigorous scientific explanations in not sexy enough for us apes.
thank you very much for your detailed elaboration on the subject, and the references. I was not aware of the bigger, geologic perspective:
Makes sense, when one thinks about the relative ratio of chemical elements on earth. I guess, as always, it is the demonstration of chemical enrichment procedures that is the key here, and there is currently no economic incentive to do such a thing. Although, I have not looked into current fuel production procedures. How expensive is 1g (sufficiently) pure Uranium fuel?The sentence that our energy requirements could be covered with breeder reactor systems for 50K years made my smile, though. It will be probably the lack of higher "level fuels" such as proteins and carbohydrates that give us headaches, first.
Please note that I am not at all hypercritical regarding nuclear energy. There is a lot of industrial and green propaganda out there, and it is sad to see that we scientist are loosing the battle in media. Too often, rigorous scientific explanations in not sexy enough for us apes.