Re: Only 85 years of Uranium Supplies?

I have an encyclopedia Brittanica, early eighties. In the article on
fossil fuels, where it discusses oil shales.

"It was estimated by Victor Goldschmidt in 1933 that the quantity of
sedimentary rocks in the Earth's crust amounts to 300,000,000 cubic
kilometers. The oil-shale and asphaltite reserve is about 10**13
tonnes, and their uranium concentration has been estimated as 0.01
percent."

According to wikipedia, currently economically minable ores start at
0.05 percent.

This is a massive resource of uranium in such vast quantities that
issues about waste disposal seem trite.

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