Lower Grade Uranium Could Hasten Climate Change Pace Environment: Emissions
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AS the use of nuclear power expands, it will become increasingly ineffective at combating global warming, warns a report by an independent think tank published today.
The Oxford Research Group argues that a worldwide shortage of highgrade uranium ore will force new nuclear reactors to exploit increasingly lower-grade ores for their fuel. Because that requires more energy to extract, the process will result in ever-greater amounts of climate-wrecking pollution.See the full content of this document
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Lower Grade Uranium Could Hasten Climate Change Pace Environment: Emissions
A report by the Dutch nuclear expert Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen says that, after 2034, the grade of...
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