So, we learn. I'm all for nuclear power, but I wonder how much domestic uranium is available in the U.S. and its possessions.
We only hold 138,200 tons of reserves. However, Australia is friendly and friendly to mining, they have 30% of the world's known reserves. Enough to hold us over for a century or two. There's enough uranium in the oceans to hold us for multiple centuries. But we also have enough thorium to hold us over for maybe a thousand years or so.
Oh, we also have spent nuclear fuel. Which is only BARELY used before it is discarded. So we could reuse our current nuclear 'waste' stockpile about a hundred times before we needed substantial new fuel. It's not easy, and if done badly is dirty as one can imagine. Only France does a good job of it.
If we can't figure out fusion within the next thousand years, we don't deserve to keep a technological society.