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Uranium: The Invisible Fire — 80 Years of Fission, Fear & Power — and Why the AI Age Cannot Survive Without It
From a Roman glassmaker’s yellow pigment to the Manhattan Project to Microsoft restarting Three Mile Island — the complete, definitive story of the most energy-dense substance on earth, the 31-million-pound annual supply deficit, and the geopolitical chokepoints reshaping energy markets in 2026. The Fuel the World Needs — and Is Running Out Of There is a substance on this planet so energy-dense that a pellet the size of a fingertip contains more power than 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas, 1,780 pounds of coal, or 149 gallons of oil. For most of human history, no one knew it existed. For the past eighty years, ... (full story)