Timeline for Is Uranium renewable, or will this science fiction scenario become reality?
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| May 4, 2012 at 4:44 | comment | added | Ron Maimon | It depends on the type of breeder. If you breed with fusion bombs, you have an essentially inexhastible neutron source, and you could basically make any element by a sequence of neutron captures. This is as renewable as it gets--- you could convert all our deuterium into He3, all U to Pu, all heavy elements to fissile elements etc. There is no limit because deuterium is an inexhaustible neutron source if exploded in H-bombs. | |
| May 4, 2012 at 3:35 | comment | added | Manishearth | @RonMaimon: Breeder reactors still don't count as renewable, since you have widened the resource base but all the resources are still renewable. | |
| May 4, 2012 at 2:14 | vote | accept | Victor | ||
| May 4, 2012 at 0:44 | comment | added | Ron Maimon | You can breed U233 from Thorium, and you can do this with fusion thermonuclear explosions (or just uranium or thorium chain reactions), so there is some renewable nuclear energy sources. | |
| May 3, 2012 at 22:37 | history | answered | Rex Kerr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |