Is uranium an unlimited supply of fuel source?

Answer 1

There should be enough uranium for another 100 years or so, but lower grade ore will have to be used. There is also plutonium which can be used (Pu239). So it's not a worry for a long time yet.

Answer 2

No, uranium is not an unlimited supply of fuel source. While there is a significant amount of uranium on Earth, it is a finite resource that will eventually be depleted if not managed sustainably. Additionally, the extraction and processing of uranium can have environmental impacts.

Answer 3

All in the world run out !

For uranium a correct answer is impossible: this depends o the new reserves discovered, the development of nuclear energy, the type of nuclear power reactors and - essentially, on the uranium price evolution.

Answer 4

U-235 will definitely run out if we use nuclear power, as it is the only naturally occurring isotope that will support a fission chain reaction.

This is why we must at some point before we run out of U-235 build breeder reactors to make plutonium from U-238 (we can for a while use up the plutonium removed from retired weapons, but that too will run out). There is roughly 138 times as much U-238 as there is U-235, so we can operate breeder reactors for about 138 times as long as we can ordinary reactors before running out of fuel.

But even then we can eventually run completely out of uranium.

• using just ordinary reactors assuming we have enough U-235 to run them for 250 years (this number is only a guess)
• then using breeder reactors we have enough uranium to run them for 34,500 years

Note that we will run out of fossil fuels well before we run out of U-235, by most estimates.

Answer 5

yes because kieron young from sunderland said

Answer 6

No, uranium is not an unlimited resource !

Answer 7

nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors will both become impossible to build

Answer 8

Uranium in the form of a fine powder can burn.

Answer 9

longer than earth

Answer 10

yes it will