Uranium Is Running Out—Here’s What That Means

Despite the post‐Fukushima gloom, nuclear power is staging a comeback: Microsoft is eyeing Three Mile Island, China’s racing to build 150 new reactors, and even Germany’s second‐guessing its phase-out.

But the rush for cleaner energy has exposed a looming uranium shortage. There’s simply not enough mined supply to meet soaring demand, and money alone can’t fix it—leaving much of the West scrambling back to Russia for nuclear fuel.

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