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I think you are implying that this self sufficiency is illusory To which I would respond that France could hold two years with its uranium reserves if the worl
by cassepipe 3y ago
I think you are implying that this self sufficiency is illusory
To which I would respond that France could hold two years with its uranium reserves if the world stopped selling it Uranium.
Gasoline reserves in comparison would last three months.
- Jedd 3y agoIllusory? Perhaps. Certainly 'self-sufficient' is inaccurate, given the reliance on external inputs. If other nation states are also not self-sufficient for fissionable materials, and/or other fuel types, then I would also not call them self-sufficient on power generation. Sure, there are degrees of reliance on providers of fuel types, but no need to muddy the waters about self-sufficiency. (f.e. Australia could be self-sufficient on solar, wind, coal, fission, I suspect - at least in terms of raw materials.)