Sentences with phrase «adequate uranium supply»

These include adequate uranium supply (probably necessitating immense uranium strip mines in Tennessee), almost inconceivable reactor and waste - transport accidents, low - level radiation effects from normal plant operations, and the burden of guarding both radioactive waste and outdated but radioactive nuclear plants for thousands of years.

Not exact matches

Study co-author Heye Freymuth of the University of Bristol explains: «Although uranium was incorporated into the oceanic crust since the initial rise in atmospheric oxygen about 2.4 billion years ago, the ocean crust did not incorporate higher amounts of uranium - 238 as the oceans did not yet have adequate supplies of oxygen.»