What do you get when you eat too much uranium?

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The Oil Drum posted a nice survey-level summary of nuclear power from the standpoint of energy sustainability.

Technically, there appear to be no show stoppers for a considerable expansion of Nuclear Power throughout the world. It is a low carbon energy source with abundant fuel supplies. The technology works and has much potential for improvement. Whether or not a large scale expansion eventuates depends on how it competes with Coal on economic grounds and with the public on political grounds. This in turn will be determined by the performance of the nuclear industry over the next few years as these purportedly cheaper and safer plants are built.

I think it is worth showing the final graph from M. King Hubberts' seminal paper "Nuclear Energy and the Fossil Fuels".

(Answer to subject line: Atomic ache. This is one of the first jokes I ever learned. It was from a book. I told it in a stand-up routine in a first-grade talent show.)

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For years I've been a fan of nuclear power. I need no convincing here.