Isabelle Boemeke
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No, about 10.
If it's 10% of the state's electricity, right?
And then you have to also think that you could potentially build two other reactors at Diablo Canyon.
So let's just say you build two more, you get to 20% of the state's electricity.
So you don't necessarily have to build one nuclear power plant per reactor.
You can have nuclear power plants that have two or four reactors.
You could save a lot of space as well.
The truth is like the math really holds up there.
I mean, it's, you know, like I said, it's less energy.
And there are two different ways to mine uranium.
One of them is the old way of just shoveling some rocks.
Sounds simple enough.
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.
And so it involves no people shoveling and that sort of stuff.
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.
And one of the biggest producers in the world is Canada.
You know, there are all these different countries that have huge uranium reserves.
I think the biggest one is Kazakhstan and then Australia, Canada.
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.
Just a fun fact about mining that I don't know if it's even that fun, but to me it is.