This is utter heresy, but a small amount of uranium/plutonium/... in an efficient reactor produces a ridiculous amount of energy. If you're all about reducing s

This is utter heresy, but a small amount of uranium/plutonium/... in an efficient reactor produces a ridiculous amount of energy. If you're all about reducing shipping, shipping uranium and locally producing metal may seem a good idea. I have no idea if this is what they're thinking about, though, and I imagine dealing with a aluminum smelter is an "interesting" project for the local electrical engineer anyway.