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Where do you think the fuel for the reactors will come from?
by cpursley 4y ago
Where do you think the fuel for the reactors will come from?
- jason0597 4y agoThere are lots of uranium reserves around the world that are in classically Western countries
- weberer 4y agoWell not Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_p...
- cpursley 4y agoAnd who do you think has a huge influence over Kazakhstan (and recently helped them prevent a coup).
- Const-me 4y agoIf one's goal is influence, fighting wars is counter-productive. The top five countries investing the most into the economy of Kazakhstan remained unchanged in 2019. Being the largest investor, the Netherlands invested $7.3 billion in Kazakhstan (30.2%), followed by the USA — $5.5 billion (23.0%) and Switzerland — $ 2.2 billion. China outran the Russian Federation in terms of investments and took 4th place with $1.7 billion (7.0%), while the Russian Federation closed the top five with $1.4 billion (5.8%) invested in Kazakhstan. Source: https://www.timesca.com/index.php/news/22338-kazakhstan-attracts-24-1-billion-of-fdi-in-2019-350-billion-since-independence https://www.timesca.com/index.php/news/22338-kazakhstan-attr...
- arbitrage 4y agoRussia can't get their act together to keep their trucks running. Due to chronic economic malaise and instability, they're not going to be a reliable producer of that fuel for a while.
- gruturo 4y agoUranium, being so energy dense, is quite practical to ship from anywhere in the world, and there are stable and democratic countries with ample reserves - so please don't use such a lazy argument here.
- wongarsu 4y agoUp until 1990 we used to mine Uranium in Germany [1]. There's still an expected 74000t left, we're just currently not interested in mining it. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wismut_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wismut_(company)