The stuff that comes out of your ass when you fart. Holy Shit you must of had a gallon of methane come out of your ass just now. That fucking reeks you fucking piece of shit. by WhatTheFuck March 27, 2005.
Nuclear energy may get mentioned in the same breath with renewable power sources like wind and solar because it is clean-burning and therefore more environmentally sound than oil or coal. But nuclear energy is, in fact, a nonrenewable resource. The problem lies in the element that enables nuclear power: uranium. The element uranium is abundant, but only a certain type of uranium, U-235, is used to fuel nuclear power. U-235 must be extracted from mined and processed uranium.
Lesson Summary. To review, nonrenewable resources are those resources found inside the earth that are in a fixed amount. They are being used at a faster rate than they can be replenished and, therefore, cannot be renewed. These resources include the fossil fuels, which consist of oil, natural gas and coal. Nuclear energy is also a nonrenewable resource that uses uranium as an energy source. Each of these nonrenewable resources is either pumped or mined from the subsurface of the earth.