Earlier this month, the Nuclear Control Institute, a nongovernment organisation in the US, concluded in a report that Japan could save $ 32.6 billion «by developing a 50 - year, low - enriched or natural uranium reserve in place of its commercial plutonium programme». (newscientist.com)
Because the world's uranium supply is finite and the continued growth in the numbers of thermal reactors could exhaust the available low - cost uranium reserves in a few decades, it makes little sense to discard this spent fuel or the «tailings» left over from the enrichment process. (scientificamerican.com)
Addressing shareholders at the company's annual general meeting in Darwin yesterday, Peter Mansell said that, with a third of the world's total undeveloped uranium reserves, the potential to expand Australian uranium mining was real. (world-nuclear-news.org)