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Where is this fear
of a nuclear wasteland coming from?
Past experience, like the bit of Ukraine Putin WON'T annex.

Look mum - I trolled like an American!

But seriously - Banquo ran down on this about four years ago - all modern power plants are based on water cooled models designed to enrich Plutonium and then re-purposed for energy generation, it's why the Iranians are so slippery. Thorium salt reactors are much safer and more efficient, and they are not under pressure (no water cooling) so they can't "blow".

Unfortunately, Uranium mining is more popular than Thorium mining for reasons that have nothing to do with energy generation.

Tiarexz is, I believe, wrong about the coal however - the figure when I was at school was 3,000 years for coal and probably 100 for oil, and we've found other fields since then.