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Trump could fuel a nuclear energy boom in 2017 : Comments

By James Stafford, published 9/12/2016

While there have been some oversupply issues keeping uranium prices down, the bigger problem has been negative sentiment rather than real fundamentals, but the Trump presidency will see through that.

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Would that be before or after Trump manages to start a nuclear war with any number of country's,he goes to jail for theft,rape,child abuse,or just get impeached for being utterly stupid.
Or re-invades Iraq and the Mid East,any man who surrounds himself with a bunch of shysters,outright liars, racists and leavened with incompetence fools is capable of anything none of it beneficial to our health
Posted by John Ryan, Friday, 9 December 2016 11:35:28 AM
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The US could have a multibillion dollar export opportunity if they lead the market in small modular reactors. The regulatory authority the NRC needs to move faster a point made by people (eg James Hansen) who probably don't support Trump. The first brand seems likely to be the NuScale which could be on the market by 2025. The UK has an SMR design competition which could speed things along.

According to the WNA mined uranium should last all the 21st century in current generation reactors. To recycle spent fuel and some waste products we'll need to get technology like the PRISM and molten salt reactors operational by mid century. So far the lead is outside the US. I make $US 40/lb about $AUD 118/kg imagine if that was $300. In Australia a number of currently sub-economic deposits could restart like the Honeymoon insitu leaching project.
Posted by Taswegian, Friday, 9 December 2016 1:12:25 PM
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In the absence of thorium reactors being a commercial reactor currently, SA could manufacture the new PRISM reactors in Port Augusta and export throughout the world. That would transform it from a 3rd world state to a 1st world one.
Provide free energy to any industry wishing to set up in the state, store waste from India and Chine, France or wherever (for a suitabl storage fee) then reprocess used rods into further fuel rods.
With the states' new electoral boundary redistribution and Trump clone for premier, SA would be the new 'premier' state.
Posted by Prompete, Friday, 9 December 2016 1:28:20 PM
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The author is projecting rapid (2017-18) changes production/prices in an Uranium energy sector famous for its glacial (10-20 years to build a reactor) pace.

Second. commodity prices (eg. Uranium) are notoriously hard to predict, let alone rely on.

Third, the US current preference for its shale oil/gas will more likely Trump growth of competing energy sources (like Uranium).
Posted by plantagenet, Friday, 9 December 2016 2:17:51 PM
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The Trump-Putin-Xi synergy is a coherent aligned vector towards nuclear deterrent output growth. The mutual assured USA First / Russia First / China century will grow mining infrastructure in heavy punching One Nation jobs & growth.
" The U-6 rate is defined as all unemployed, plus "persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of a labor force."

In other words: The unemployed, the underemployed and the discouraged" in US will make American great payloads.
Posted by nicknamenick, Friday, 9 December 2016 3:30:10 PM
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While one can agree with the tenor of the article, someone needs to point out, as much as there could be large uranium deposits, there's at least three times as much thorium!

And where uranium fired reactors consume around 1-5% of their fuel! With light water reactor, the least efficient and producing the most waste?

Thorium burns 95-99% of its fuel leaving just 1-5% as vastly less toxic waste to be disposed of!

Moreover molten salt reactors can be used as slow breeder reactors to burn and reburn nuclear waste.

And many of the planned nuclear reactors in china could just as easily be thorium? But particularly if India produces the 2016 planned 300 MW working prototype?

We for our part will wait and see, then plan to join this queue, long after the ship has well and truly sailed!

And when China and everyone else finishes building all the planned nuclear reactors? Many of which could be built and rolled out ready to use, as factory built modules, that take just months to complete. Rather than the projected 20 years, as predicted by wishful anti nuclear lobbyists!

Who will we sell our coal to when these plethora of factory built modules come on line? And given it will be much sooner than we think, in a carbon constrained global economy, have punitive carbon tariffs applied?

How much will it earn for us then, particularly at the give-away prices it's bound to command!

I won't say our (stonewall Jackson) current leaders are dumb. Given that would be complementary praise indeed?

And in cricket parlance, deserving of the longest. slowest handclap ever, for redoubtable, stalwart stalling and never ever scoring, longest ever duck?

And can't think of anyone dumber, or more inept, except the feather heads, who would replace them!

Think, with one or two smart policies rolled out, this nation could become a virtual paradise and a debt free one at that!

That might make us look like a nation, with a rekindled light burning on that hill, united in common purpose!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Friday, 9 December 2016 5:40:20 PM
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