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Isabelle Boemeke

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

No, about 10.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

If it's 10% of the state's electricity, right?

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

And then you have to also think that you could potentially build two other reactors at Diablo Canyon.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

So let's just say you build two more, you get to 20% of the state's electricity.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

So you don't necessarily have to build one nuclear power plant per reactor.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

You can have nuclear power plants that have two or four reactors.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

You could save a lot of space as well.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

The truth is like the math really holds up there.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

I mean, it's, you know, like I said, it's less energy.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

And there are two different ways to mine uranium.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

One of them is the old way of just shoveling some rocks.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

Sounds simple enough.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

And the new way is something called in situ mining, which is basically like they dig a hole and they get to the uranium reserves and pump some liquid through it that then brings the uranium to the surface.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

And so it involves no people shoveling and that sort of stuff.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

But truthfully, you know, in reality, even the normal uranium mining has been done in a very, very safe way in the past few decades.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

And one of the biggest producers in the world is Canada.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

You know, there are all these different countries that have huge uranium reserves.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

I think the biggest one is Kazakhstan and then Australia, Canada.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

So in terms of the mining and the energy takes to mine, it's without a doubt, it's just better than anything else, just because of, again, going back to the energy density.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1277: Isabelle Boemeke | The Rad Future of Nuclear Electricity

Just a fun fact about mining that I don't know if it's even that fun, but to me it is.