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The world couldn't run on nuclear because we don't have enough fissible material for that iirc.
the thorium available in china could power it for 60,000 years at current capacity, and this is all produced as byproduct of current rare earth mining. long enough for us to come up with fusion, im sure
rant about this back of the envelope math
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there 100% is, literally just uranium. "reserves" of minerals are measured by concentrations profitable to mine using current prices and extraction techniques. if all power was running off uranium it'd suddenly make a lot more sense and money to mine poorer deposits and use more expensive kinds of extraction. And guess what? people would explore more and find new deposits because uranium is pretty shit to speculate on with such low demandbut more importantly, nobody. ever. has proposed this. it's like arguing against solar because the sun goes down