Bob Brackett

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Odd Lots · What the Nuclear Power Revival Means for the Price of Uranium · 1 Nov 2024 podcast

And so most of Yellowcake is U238.

I send that to an enrichment facility.

I spin it up.

I get rid of the oxygen and replace it with fluorine for chemical reasons, and then enrich it to power plant grade.

And then I can keep enriching it to weapons.

But hopefully we don't go that far.

Yeah, we were using whale-based lubricants in the space age.

And and we stopped.

Uh yes.

But yeah, so the answer is if you're in the depletions-based business, right.

Imagine COVID where everybody on the planet started hoarding things because they worried that it was going away and it couldn't be replenished.

And we did it again with the most recent uh couple of hurricanes.

If you're in the natural resource business, you wake up every day knowing your business is going out of business.

Uh and th th think how crazy behaviors were uh in a in a hoarding sort of world.

And and that's the business model.

And so one, it creates this strong desire to go replace resource, and if incentives are bad, that's kind of crazy.

But two, it's this constant treadmill.

If the industry stops, the market rebalances.

Aaron Ross Powell So yeah, roughly there's about two hundred million pounds of uranium a year.

And I do wanna say that we didn't really talk about what we were going to discuss.

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