The quantity of available uranium is limited and will reduce. The price will go up. If the world adopts nuclear power as a major source of energy there will be uranium wars just as there are now oil wars. There are unlikely to be wars fought over sustainable locally generated, solar, wind or wave power.
Thomas
Neff, a research affiliate at MIT's Center for International Studies writes "..shortage
of uranium and of processing facilities worldwide leaves a gap between the
potential increase in demand for nuclear energy and the ability to supply fuel
for it' 8
The support of
nuclear power by government results from special pleading lobbying by the
industry.
The adoption of nuclear power is favoured by the government but in a referendum would be rejected by citizens as being too dangerous and too expensive. A major reason that government favours this form seems to be due to vast amounts of money and effort being put into lobbying by the power companies. Their profits are huge so they have the funds for lobbying whereas the NGOs and citizens at large who are against nuclear power and have overwhelming arguments do not make the same impact because they lack the funds for effective lobbying.
This is one tendency which we are trying to help counter by this article!
1 " Nuclear power 'gets little public support worldwide' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15864806
2. Charles Perrow, "Normal
Accidents', Basic Books, 1984.
4. click here
6.'
Nuclear Power - Costly and Dangerous' By Peter A. Bradford, an adjunct professor at the Vermont Law
School and former commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
7.
click here
8. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/fuel-supply.html
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