Putting oil and uranium in the same bucket seems clumsy. All of Japan’s nuclear reactors together use maybe 500 metric tonnes of uranium in a year. Japan impo

Putting oil and uranium in the same bucket seems clumsy. All of Japan’s nuclear reactors together use maybe 500 metric tonnes of uranium in a year. Japan imports something like 130 _million_ tonnes of crude oil in a year. It would hardly be a moonshot for Japan (or any country) to create a strategic reserve with a 5 year supply of uranium fuel. That’s simply impossible with oil.