I'm inferring from this that their current plan is to import lithium-7, from either Russia or China? - "The Kairos Power fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature

I'm inferring from this that their current plan is to import lithium-7, from either Russia or China? - "The Kairos Power fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor requires highly enriched lithium-7 to support operations. The high enrichment requirements complicate quality and process control due to lack of qualified standards and instrumentation capable of meeting the required precision and accuracy. Currently, enrichment [sic] of 99.95% 7Li is imported to the U.S. in limited quantities." https://gain.inl.gov/content/uploads/4/2023/10/KairosPower_Abstract_23-3.pdf https://gain.inl.gov/content/uploads/4/2023/10/KairosPower_A... - "Due to environmental concerns and relatively low demand for enriched lithium, further use of the COLEX process is officially banned in the USA since 1963, which strengthens China’s near unanimous [sic] hold over the market of enriched lithium, followed by Russia.[7]. [...]Although US nuclear industry relies heavily on Chinese and Russian enriched lithium, ecological concerns over the process may impede its future domestic use at industrial scale." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLEX_process#COLEX_separation_facilities_in_the_world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLEX_process#COLEX_separation... (Tangentially, the Chinese FLiBe reactor also uses enriched lithium-7, so I guess they're self-sufficient in that, as both supplier and consumer). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMSR-LF1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMSR-LF1 edit: Found an additional reference, https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-13-716 https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-13-716 ("Managing Critical Isotopes: Stewardship of Lithium-7 Is Needed to Ensure a Stable Supply" (2013))