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Yea, thats another problem in the US.
In Austria you get 25 days vacation.
Sick leave is paid, 6 weeks by the employer, after that the insurance takes over gradually. But it’s rarely that long. If you are sick longer than 2 or 3 days you should get a checked by a doctor (which is also free most of the time).
You need to stay home because of sick kids? There’s carer’s leave too. If you work 40h per week, you get that amount per year.
The abundance of uranium and thorium is of the same magnitude. The thing is economics. Uranium is cheap, and as long it is, we use the sources we have. As the peice of uranium rises other sources get economical including sea water extraction which is effectively renewable.