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However, this scenario does not offer us a viable alternative: as a group of independent experts recently discovered, our global uranium reserves will be depleted even before the end of this century. ?Even if we take into account that uranium prices will rise dramatically and that this will raise interest in exploiting previously uneconomical uranium mines, our uranium reserves will be fully depleted in 70 years at the latest?, says Dr. Werner Zittel, energy expert at Ludwig Bölkow Systemtechnik GmbH in Ottobrunn.He is one of the key figures of the Energy Watch Group that has taken up the cause of conducting critical and politically unbiased analyses of our future energy supplies. ?All suggestions to expand nuclear energy production overlook the fact that the raw material reserves needed for this technology are severely declining and don?t permit further expansion.?
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Zittel concludes: ?From the data we have available on the existing uranium deposits, we can conclude that nuclear energy will no longer be a major source of energy in a few decades? time.The Energy Watch Group is an association of independent researchers and economics experts who are in the process of developing sustainable concepts to secure our global energy supply.The group was established by Hans-Josef Fell, a member of the German Bundestag (Lower House).In addition to Dr. Werner Zittel, participants include Jörg Schindler, Managing Director of Ludwig Bölkow Systemtechnik GmbH, Dr. Harry Lehmann, an expert from the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) and Stefan Peter from the Institute for Sustainable Solutions and Innovations.
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Dr. Werner Zittel, Ludwig Bölkow Systemtechnik GmbHPhone: 00 49 /89/60811020, Fax: 00 49 /89/6099731, Email: zittel@lbst.de.