tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post8658161728772771372..comments2024-03-07T02:00:01.582-05:00Comments on NEI Nuclear Notes: On MIT's Uranium StudyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-83105536212154655182007-03-30T11:48:00.000-04:002007-03-30T11:48:00.000-04:00Great IAEA chart; however cannot find on the IAEA ...Great IAEA chart; however cannot find on the IAEA WEB site, and why does it show demand at 40,000 t U or 88 million lbs when the actual demand is ~ 180 million lbs. ???Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04587223950193708200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-67884668145413959002007-03-30T11:46:00.000-04:002007-03-30T11:46:00.000-04:00Terrifc chart from IAEA to put Neff's commnets in ...Terrifc chart from IAEA to put Neff's commnets in perspective; however I cannot locate this chart on the IAEA WEB site? and also curious why the demand line, shown to be ~ 40,000 t U does not reconcile with the annual demand of 180,000 lbs. ???Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04587223950193708200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-4855202202776645002007-03-23T11:54:00.000-04:002007-03-23T11:54:00.000-04:00Has anyone seen Neff's report? All I can find on t...Has anyone seen Neff's report? All I can find on the MIT website is a March 21 press release on Neff's position. Unlike the Globe and Mail story, the MIT PR makes no mention of a report.<BR/><BR/>A link would be helpful, thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-38558182418208264192007-03-23T08:52:00.000-04:002007-03-23T08:52:00.000-04:00In addition to the Deffeyes-MacGregor study above,...In addition to the Deffeyes-MacGregor study above, there is another isotope available for the fuel cycle - thorium (breeding up U-233), which is far more abundant than even uranium.<BR/><BR/>The Kurchatov Institute has recently finished studies on fuel elements designed for their VVER reactors. Were some sort of hybrid thorium cycle adopted, nuclear fuel would not be an issue at all. Granted it would probably take 10 years to design, fabricate and test fuel rods for PWRs and BWRs currently in service or coming online, but that would arrive just in time for the coming (we hope) buildout.<BR/><BR/>More info here:<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/36sksfFlagg707https://www.blogger.com/profile/00372325313824525136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-48676548833251978762007-03-22T19:10:00.000-04:002007-03-22T19:10:00.000-04:00I guess everyone has forgotten the article "World ...I guess everyone has forgotten the article "World Uranium Resources", by Kenneth S. Deffeyes and Ian D. MacGregor, ''Scientific American'', January, 1980. In this article, it estimates that for a ten times increase in price, the supply of uranium that can be economically mined is increased 300 times. So there is an awful lot of it available. Deffeyes is the author of Hubbert's Peak where he concludes that the oil is running out.Paul Studierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14558327645934218410noreply@blogger.com