Re:Can we build more nuclear reactors now? (Score 1)

I'm not sure how you did the math on this, working from the 550 MT yellow cake (U3O8), you get ~60 MT U at an enrichment of 3.5%, which is a typical feed enrichment for a light water reactor. A typical LWR has a core inventory of about 90 MT of fuel and about 1/3 of the core is replaced every 18 months. So, this would provide the reload fuel for about two reactors and would remain in the core for ~6 years. This will result in a total of 3x10^6 MW-days of thermal energy generated (or about 1x10^6 MW-days of electricity). You can do a similar calculation for CANDUs (since the yellow cake is going to Canada), which will use all of the 550 MT (minus loses) as fuel since they burn natural uranium and you get about the same results (~4x10^6 MW-days of thermal energy and ~1.3x10^6 MW-days of electricity)