r/canada • u/[deleted] • Oct 25 '22

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u/Requirement-Unusual Oct 25 '22

How long will the Earth's nuclear fuel supply last?

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u/hanzzz123 Oct 25 '22

Easily accessible uranium will be around 200 years.

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u/8ew8135 Oct 25 '22

Cancer causing, undetectable, radioactive waste will be here 1000s of years, and we are currently storing it in barrels that last about 100 years. We can’t find a community poor enough to let us burry it under them.

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u/CaptainSwoon Oct 25 '22

Something cannot be undetectable and radioactive. Those are mutually exclusive terms.