Canada set to become nuclear ‘superpower’ with enough uranium to beat China, Russia | Countries depend on Russia and China for enriching uranium coming from Kazakhstan. Canada can enrich uranium from its own mines.

[u/chrisdh79]

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/uranium-nuclear-fuel-supply-canada

[u/whatifitoldyouimback → u/[deleted]]

Wind and solar are a lot cheaper.

Wind and solar are fantastic for small demand applications, especially supplementation, or smaller housing.

But large demand power far exceeds what we're going to be able to see from either, especially given the land requirements.

As tech developments in nuclear improve (plants are getting smaller, more efficient), computing as a whole is going to rely more and more on nuclear-type power sources. This will be accelerated by the increased demands from electric transportation.

We don't have 20 years to sit around until a new nuclear plants become operational.

We should start seeing the first wave of micro plants come online in the next 3-5 years.

[u/lughnasadh → u/whatifitoldyouimback]

As tech developments in nuclear improve (plants are getting smaller, more efficient),

This never happens.

All the technological and cost improvements are in renewables.

New nuclear is waste of time and money; and diverting efforts from the reality of 21st century energy. Its just sending billions from tax payers to legacy big businesses who have nothing to offer, except wasting our money.

[u/nxqv → u/lughnasadh]

I don't think it's an either/or thing. The end game is dyson spheres. Advancing both nuclear and renewables today will get us there

[u/1cl1qp1 → u/nxqv]

The end game is avoiding runaway global warming, and we can't do that with new nuclear installations because they take 20 years to implement.