five million tons - not 40 trillion tons of recoverable uranium

Yes, Mike embrittlement is the stopper for nuclear containment vessels. I think hitssquad must work for the fossil fuel boys - he misquotes his own sources.

A good rule is to require real names for real, helps to verify lobbyists source of funding... for example hitssquad states "The fuel supply is vast -- 40 trillion tons of uranium alone."

Whereas the fine CFR article states,
"Close to five million tons of naturally occurring uranium is known to be recoverable. Australia leads with more than one million tons (about 24 percent of the worlds known supply), followed by Kazakhstan, with over 800,000 tons or 17 percent of known supplies. Canadas supplies are slightly less than 10 percent of the worlds total, while the United States and South Africa have about 7 percent each."

Check out the article
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