Russia is temporarily limiting exports of enriched uranium to the U.S., creating potential supply risks to utilities operating American reactors that generate almost a fifth of the nation’s electricity. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/17/world/politics/russia-us-nuclear-power-uranium/?utm…
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But seriously. Nuclear is so risky you can't get a loan to build it and no insurer will insure it.
It's mostly government financed and insured.
👎😒👉 We take the risk, Big Energy gets the profit.
Friends don’t cut cable comm lines, alter election results, target electromagnetic tools at foreign service staff and can send a pulse to take out all comms and plunge us into darkness.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/nuclear/where-our-uranium-comes-from.php
https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/uranium-resources/supply-of-uranium
The supply of natural uranium ore (that is processed and then enriched) is a more more global affair: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/mining-of-uranium/world-uranium-mining-production
Donald Trump=economic injustice=economic ruin.
Maybe rethink the grid.
Or is it a push to go back to clean coal as an energy source?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/nov/14/trump-minerals-opportunity/
Show me a more obvious failing of government policy than this, please.
" This has such a long Leadtime and is being addressed in the USA, they already have build the centrifuges for enriching, to commercial, more in the USA.
The UK has a cooperative company with the Netherlands and Germany, it also is increasing it's capacity for domestic production. "
It doesn’t mean we’re screwed. Russia is screwed more without that money and we should have reserve