"Any ore deposit is compressed for eons under pressure that is hundreds, or thousands, of times greater than anything we experience on a day to day basis"
Sorry, that's simply not true. Ore can be in any form from hard rock to sand. In fact a significant amount of uranium ore occurs as placer deposits.
Are you disputing that there are almost certainly very large uranium ore deposits on the sea floor, exposed directly to (uber corrosive!) saltwater? Why aren't you worried about those?
"There's a huge difference between nature's long term storage and our temporary tin cans."
4. As an exercise for the reader, figure out how much the ocean's concentration of uranium in ppb would change if we just dumped all 470,000 tons directly into the sea (i.e., the worst case scenario to end all worst case scenarios).
Sorry, that's simply not true. Ore can be in any form from hard rock to sand. In fact a significant amount of uranium ore occurs as placer deposits.
Are you disputing that there are almost certainly very large uranium ore deposits on the sea floor, exposed directly to (uber corrosive!) saltwater? Why aren't you worried about those?
"There's a huge difference between nature's long term storage and our temporary tin cans."
Oh, please.