Nuclear energy is not renewable if we discard nuclear fuel after one use. This uses, and wastes much of, the only fissile nuclear energy source, uranium-235. The U-235 is just 0.7% of natural uranium.
But nuclear energy is renewable if we recycle the fuel. The U-235 can then convert the billions of tons of uranium-238 [...]
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