Uranium Supply Debate

there isn't enough uranium for that

Isn’t Uranium more like a fuel?

The proliferation risk of nuclear fuel is overblown. Reactors don’t use weapons-grade fuel, and purifying it to weapons-grade material is harder than making the fuel to begin with; if you can take fuel and refine it into a weapon, you might as well start with unprocessed uranium.

no you are not! the isotopes from uranium and plutonium fuel rod use and miss use only!

It's not about uranium but about plutonium .

Adding: your link is from 2009, so is rather out of date.Here's some more info: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...

Is obtaining the uranium really the bottleneck?

Main thing that stops any country is availability of refined fission material. First you need to have access to Uranium mines which US and Russia pretty much has covered all over the world. Second, you need to dig tons of ore and go through very tedious and complicated refinement process that is very expensive and requires very large scale operation. To avoid these, countries like Iran would just use the material generated from reactor fuel that can be obtained more easily.

We don't have infinite Uranium.

I might be mistaken, (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong) but IIRC Plutonium is a side-product of the enrichment of weapons-grade Uranium. I think the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons treaty might impose some barriers on this process, and we're no longer in the Cold War, so it's kinda hard to get Plutonium.