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> That's complete nonsense, unless you're asserting that Kazakstan is in Russia. If the West became dependent on Kazakh uranium because they shifted their enti
by danans 5y ago
> That's complete nonsense, unless you're asserting that Kazakstan is in Russia.
If the West became dependent on Kazakh uranium because they shifted their entire fossil fuel generation capacity to nuclear, it would be in Russia's strategic interest to exert control over Kazakhstan's uranium, one way or another.
There may be sensible ways to replace some base load on the grid with nuclear, but not by introducing a resource dependency on the vassal of a major adversary.
The thing we can do right now is focus on electrification of end uses that are still fossil fuel powered. That way the end uses are mostly agnostic of the method of generation.