Which Thermal Reactors Should We Build?
>100000
1000
Fast reactor using
seawater
6700
1000
Fast reactor
58
42
42
36
30
Years of Uranium Availibility for 6000 1000 MWe Units*
8.77
1.2% Enriched U in
CANDU
6.37
Natural U in CANDU
6.37
DUPIC (PWR-CANDU)
5.41
Pu Recycle in PWR,
BWR
4.61
Enriched U in PWR,
BWR
Megawatt-years per Tonne
*Total conventional resources plus
phosphate ores