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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

That makes little sense Nicknamenick...
Maybe if you put it to music, it might rival the likes of Bob Dylan.
Lyrics in music don't have a need to be coherent. The Beatles, and particularly John Lenon, were masters at lyrical vagaries ....
Another that springs to mind is "America Pie", (Don McLean)..
*February made me shiver,
With every paper I'd deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn't take one more step!*
But that's Australia to a tea though, it's always stepping out in a coat it borrowed from James Dean, don't you reckon ?
We're deeply into Chinese now, a pretty bland coat that one...I don't think Uncle Don will likes us all that much because of it!
He doesn't like Chinese either, but he does like the Russians ; so do I actually.
Think of the formidable alliance, Russia and the U.S. of A. Now there is an unstoppable team. Uncle Don could pull that off if he had a mind to. That would set the cat among the pigeons.
*Cats in the cradle and the silver spoon
little Boy blue and the man in the moon
When you coming home dad I don't know when
But we'll get together then
You know we'll have a good time then...*

Dan
Don and Dan are a team and slogans are for pop ulism. He's just said he'll make China follow the rules, what rules does Uncle Vlad the airliner killer follow? What will DT put in the new US navy - does he even like Bob Dylan?

Dan: Bye bye Miss american pie by Don Maclean, has huge historical significance and is, I believe a lament for a dead singer songwriter, and
the tears I cried for his widowed bride,
the day the music died,
killed before his thirtieth birthday in a plane crash?

That said, never more apt words applicable to recent events and loss of faith in the, in God we trust, religious backed, business as usual, political establishment/wall street?

The men I admire the most,
The Father, son and the holy ghost,
caught the last train for the coast.
The day the music died.
Cheers, Alan B.

Why can't Dylan or McLean write useful songs about coal-fired power generators or state of the art nuclear reactors?
eh?

Meanwhile I came across this truth-telling website this morning:
http://www.nirs.org

Anyway NNN and Al...I had a rough and a busy morning as I set about to research the opinions of the fish in regards to the Vlad and Uncle Don amalgamation.
They were very surprised when I opened the lecture with the wave of an oyster knife, to hear that the subject had moved on from the Walrus and the Carpenter!
But they finally settled, as did I, as I seated myself atop a bomi...
I was not surprised though, to hear of their extreme dislike of Chinese. Don't believe for a moment fish can't talk, I can assure you they can, since they chorused to the last member of the school, how many of their cousin sharks had gone the way of the Chinese soup bowl.
Anyway, they were very excited at the possibilities which could blossom forth, as the fonds of a sea sponge in spring, from the joint venture of the precious two!

So Dan you see Uncle Vlad does Olympic Opium and the MAD tea party has yellow cake . The English Boris and Don Tweedledee are getting curiouser.

NNN
I think it unreasonable for the masses to keep falling In front of Olympic opium, Vlad is not stupid Nick. And Boris is suffering from acid reflux, so that leaves uncle Don to pick up the pieces alone, (but not unassisted).

Oh, and Nick, the MAD tea party has yellow cake , also true; but don't lose heart, for they still have Alice.
BUT Nick, on which side of the mirror is Alice and the party? Ah Ha...

Interesting times there are 2 Popes today and 2 Presidents calling the shots. Enough for a parallel universe.

Thorium, thorium, one working reactor between the four of em.
Hail the purple flower, there were no more of them,
cause one was enough, on its Pat Malone,
to almost destroy the entire energy industry, all alone!

Bore the blessed blazes out of more of em,
Ere they get, we are more than able to do it on our own!
Thorium, thorium, cleaner, safer and cheaper than coal,
or by the blessed blazes, all of em.

By Alan B. While channeling Don Quixote.

I'll have two of whatever Dan's having. And aw shucks Dan, that's the only way you're going to have an intelligent conversation down there.
Cheers, Alan B.

Come gather around thorium
Wherever uranium 233
Irradiated by neutrons
Around you have grown,
And accept Thorium lymphoreticular Thyrotoxicosis
You'll be drenched to the bone
And if your Brahmos II is worth saving
Then control terminal flight or you'll sink like a stone
For hypersonic mach 7 they are a-changing.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed Don's call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's the battle outside raging
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changing.

copyright Donald Dylan
2016

"China flew a long-range bomber capable of carrying nuclear weapons over the South China Sea in recent days, according to US officials... say is a message to President-elect Donald Trump, Fox News reported on Friday.

The flight route corresponded to the so-called 'Nine-Dash line,"
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This is at about 400km from the equator. Normally a state claiming Tibet and Taiwan and Indonesian islands would be an "empire".

Bit of a non-story.

Any of China's air force aircraft (and US aircraft) are nuclear "capable" - even trainers.

Many nuclear weapons have been made that are less than 55kg eg. 155mm artillery shells (nuclear) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W48

The Wright brothers plane was nuclear capable then. But this century the US is vulnerable.
"China has successfully completed a seventh flight test of its new hypersonic glide vehicle last week in its northern central Shanxi province, according to an article on People’s Daily Online.

The “DF-ZF” glider can travel at speeds between Mach 5 and Mach 10, which is 5 to 10 times the speed of sound.

The Chinese news site reported that U.S. intelligence fears that Beijing may use DF-ZF to “deliver nuclear weapons bypassing even the most complex of missile defense systems,” citing an article in the Washington Free Beacon.

The U.S. Air Force has made some progress ..

The service in 2013 conducted its fourth and longest flight of the so-called X-51 WaveRider. After separating from a rocket launched beneath the wing of a B-52 bomber, the hypersonic vehicle built by Boeing Co. climbed to 60,000 feet, accelerated to Mach 5.1.."

John Ryan

Suck it up, Buttercup

John Ryan etc etc
". The fact is that this year, they are planning to carry out the first live testing of the Brahmos air-based missiles that were designed just for the Su-30MKI fighter jets. ..Mach 7 in 2017."

Oh, Nicknamenick you are so slick
But Jesus loves you more than you will know ooo
Beijing on the wing
Well, here we are living next door to Alice
What a wonder land!

I wonder.
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