“At least 71 new nuclear plants are under construction somewhere in the world today, and another 484 are in some stage of planning. That exceeds the number of nuclear facilities under construction or consideration before Fukushima ever happened. It is an unparalleled level of nuclear-plant construction. The existing 437 nuclear reactors that exist consume on an annual basis about 175 million pounds of uranium. Yet, the world’s existing uranium mines only produce about 145 million pounds a year. The world has papered over that 30-million-pound gap with a U.S./Russia agreement to turn weapons-grade uranium into industrial uranium.”
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