Something to reduce western dependence on Russian-enriched nuclear isotopes (which is rarely if ever mentioned alongside gas concerns, for some reason).
That is a strangest thing too.
AFAIK, in Europe, only France is relatively independent on nuclear fuel, waste and have its own nuclear technologies. Britain seem to abandon most of their nuclear tech and had abroad fuel processing. Most other European nuclear plants depends on Russian tech or processing in one way or another, even USA made ones. Interesting, that Germany still want to close last 3 working nuclear reactors to the end of 2022. For the sake of ecology, of course. Theoretically, Europe could switch to French nuclear fuel, but France, being one of the largest nuclear fuel supplier have large internal consumption and low reserves for additional fuel production. As for tech, all Eastern Europe nusclear plants use Russian tech. USA buying Russian fuel. So, France and Canada could become alternatives for Eastern Europe, but hardly they could quickly enhance supply for all Eastern Europe plants. And there is silence in MSM about all that.
That is a strangest thing too.
AFAIK, in Europe, only France is relatively independent on nuclear fuel, waste and have its own nuclear technologies. Britain seem to abandon most of their nuclear tech and had abroad fuel processing. Most other European nuclear plants depends on Russian tech or processing in one way or another, even USA made ones. Interesting, that Germany still want to close last 3 working nuclear reactors to the end of 2022. For the sake of ecology, of course. Theoretically, Europe could switch to French nuclear fuel, but France, being one of the largest nuclear fuel supplier have large internal consumption and low reserves for additional fuel production. As for tech, all Eastern Europe nusclear plants use Russian tech. USA buying Russian fuel. So, France and Canada could become alternatives for Eastern Europe, but hardly they could quickly enhance supply for all Eastern Europe plants. And there is silence in MSM about all that.