Is there enough nuclear energy under the ground to fuel america for 500 years?

Question

I know, the question is stupid. I basically want to know which isotopes of which elements are cost-effective to fuel nuclear reactors at power plants?

Also, will these resources run out as fast as we ran out of oil?

Answer 1

We have not run out of oil.  That is a myth.  There is enough oil in the US to cover our needs for at least another 100 years and that is the deposits we currently know about.

There is enough coal to keep the US going for centuries.

Uranium is the element that is used to create nuclear power and the known supply is sufficient.  The issue with nuclear power is the by-product not the supply.

Answer 2

Depends on what you mean.   WE can make breeder plants so we would have an endlesss supply of Transuranic to supply our powerplants.   Uranium and Plutonium is the principle source of fuel, but it's impossible to find Natural plutonium.

Answer 3

We will never run out of oil as the plants are recycling CO2 all the time. All oil comes from plants..

Answer 4

Probably enough nuclear fuel forever.

Oil has not run out, democrats and environmentalist have not allowed tapping all of our resources.

The same idiots have not allowed the building of new refineries until just recently, but there was about a 30 year drought of refineries before that.

We would have Nuclear plants offsetting foreign oil today if it weren't for the same idiots either.

Answer 5

Yes, and we also have the Breeder technology that allows the plant to make more fuel while generating power. We were just beginning to build these and many other design improvements when our progressive forward thinking "Environmentalists" and liberal media decided they knew more than we engineers, and killed our Nuclear Program.

Answer 6

There probably is, but if you look at the numbers, the largest source of readily available energy is solar power. The problem is that so far it has been difficult to harness this power efficiently.

Nuclear power is, I think, a good step on the way to 100% renewable energy (and certainly cleaner than carbon fuels), but ultimately I doubt it will be the most cost-effective power around.

Answer 7

If they re-refined the fuel pellets instead of discarding them they could probably stop mining Uranium.

Answer 8

There is energy under-ground in the form of coal to fuel America for 500 years.

Answer 9

There is enough geothermal energy under the ground to fuel power plants for the next 500 years, but we are just now starting to tap into it.