Is nuclear energy considered to be renewable or non-renewable?

when nuclear technology first being developed, time of war. had choice between plentiful thorium , rare uranium 235 had extracted isotope refinement thorium did not produce weapons grade plutonium focused on uranium 235. companies westinghouse , ge paid design , build reactors loved idea of solid core fuel rods because inkjet cartridges, bought them not 1 of competitors, accustomed steam powered generators coal power plants , didn't want change design wound pressurized water reactors explode if there leak or insufficient cooling provided , fuel rods required active cooling ten years remove latent heat regardless of whether or not used. scientist held patent on light water reactor troubled how fundamentally dangerous design kept arguing liquid fluoride thorium reactors, when airforce needed light weight easy operate safe reactor plane, funded lftr , 1 built , operated. didn't have funds operate on weekends cut cooling power on friday night , reactor shut down safely , without power weekend. however, once airforce decided no longer needed bombers when missiles more effective cut funding. nuclear reactor manufacturers didn't want fund because did not require fuel rods , nixon didn't want fund because did not need army of employees run , wanted bring employment areas of country funded liquid sodium cooled fast breeder reactors ( imagine reactor coolant can in explode bomb ).

lftr can provide electricity less coal, can't explode, can't leak, can't melt down, not need cooling power stay shut off, consumes existing nuclear waste , waste produce needs stored 300 years. china building lftr call molten salt thorium reactor. if of our energy needs uranium 235, there's 60 years of uranium 235 left in reserves if used thorium, have enough thousands of years.

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