Uranium One - not 20% of uranium reserves. It's worse.
It was a deal to hand-over 20% the USA's production capacity to Putin.
More to the point:
A deal to hand-over uranium processing technologies, to Putin.
Hillary was masterful at that - finding ways to give USA tech to other countries.
Really, Russia is far more advanced in nuclear fuel processing technologies than any Western country, including USA. Up to the using MOX-fuel in fast neutron reactors.
As far as I know, there was no any interest in tech, there was interest in mines that belongs to Uranium One, especially in Kazakhstan and Tanzania. As for USA, the uranium mining in Wyoming was closed forever in 2018. May be that was a condition of sale - shut down any mining in USA.
ok so a transfer of uranium to putin - a known nuclear power / national threat
sure, why not.
i don't know, but also just the supply chain that feeds US uranium demand - why would any administration hand-over even 1% of the uranium processing supply chain to russia - if putin was considered a national threat.
and if he wasn't considered a national threat at the time.
what changed.
that's all i'm asking.
what changed from Uranium one... 12 / 24 / 36 months later... REEEEE PUTIN!
IDK. Why transfer manufacturing of semiconductors to Asia? Why transfer manufacturing of tools to Asia. Fuck, it is even sensless now to buy SnapOn wrench - it is made in China. Even fucking wrench. And you talk about uranium. They transferred out everything that produce real things and keep bankers, lawyers, pension advisors and stock traders, covering all that shit with Hollywood.
Total deindustrialisation of USA is going from 1980s and you ask why they sell Uranium One? Where you have been all that time? You should have become concerned when Motorola and Texas Instrumens outsoursed their chip manufacturing to Philipines/Malaysia/China/Taiwan.
We also have some kind of deindustrialisation in Russia, started from 1991, it is different in methods, but similar in goal. But every single Russian is totally aware about it and excluding those who get money participating in that shit, all blame the government for the treason.
Strange, that it is not the case for US.
and you talk about a wrench?? lol
so then what's the big deal of Russia selling gas to Germany, if Germany wants to buy?
is my point.
if it's not a big deal, then what's the big deal?
Ukraine is a money laundering operation, that they hope to stoke into WW3 - to usher in the great reset.
It's not about democracy or humanitarian anything.
It's not about Putin being dangerous.
It's about self-serving interests attempting to unify the money supply under one bank that controls them all.
Putin? hahah Putin is happy to play the court jester - as he watched the West self implode.
Is my point :)
To paint a picture of deindustrialisation trend.
Those stock traiders in US think they will loose money if they allow Germany to buy cheap gas.
Highly probable, yes.
However, I'm not shure about money laundering. What is the need for those, who print money to launder them? I think it is draining official state budget for whatever purpose. Look, you are feeded with all that stories about shortages, supply chain problems, explosions on different plants and so on. That Ian hurricane, draught, heavy rains, heat waves and so on. All that shit is the things government exists to mitigate and fix with taxpayers money. So, to slip from the responsibility of fixing some bigger preplanned disaster, they have to drain state budget as much as possible, and they they will just tell everybody that they don't have money to do their job, so you have to survive by yourself if you could.
They tried to get rid of you with chemical food, drugs, non-working virus, unneeded lockdowns and masks, shitty vaccines and so on. Now they praying for WW3 or some other manufactured disaster, but in both cases they have to spend collected taxpayers money to save you. So, they need to get rid of them, to have a reason for not saving you.
There are many proofs of this, such as westinghouse work in the ukraine. Basically inferior product to put it plainly.
Yes, Russia could produce fuel for any western reactor, not vice versa, and that fuel is cheaper and better than anything that could be made by West, that's why even US still buys Russian nuclear fuel.
But that is not main thing.
Russia already runs BN-800 reactors on mixed oxide fuel made from nuclear waste. That means nuclear waste of regular power plants and charges from old nuclear bombs is a fuel for new Russian nuclear power plants. And nuclear waste from that fast neutron reactors could be processed to fuel regular ones again. And so on. It named "closed cycle". And West is willing to pay to get rid of their nuclear waste.
So, the pucture is now looks like now West will fuel Russian power plants not even for free, but will pay for it.
Also, closed cycle of nuclear fuel means that it is possible to extract up to 30% of stored energy from uranium ore, in comparison to 3% of usual fuel cycle.
Interesting, that West abandoned fast-neutron reactors, even sometimes dropped building after investing billions.
Only China is now trying to get hands on close cycle. Russia already have it working. West even don't really try at all. That does not make any sense. Especially now, during energy war.
Yes, good details.
I don't think anyone can explain the reasoning used in the west, so I will not bother trying to make stuff up about how they come to the rationale presented.
But, fear is likely the main contender and from this stems the desire to control all systems and reduce threat capability from everything.
Well.. not sure about that claim. Nuclear power is great for building plutonium. It has good longevity, depends on your 'alternative'
If you are speaking of how it is done in the west, it is clearly like everything else. Contaminated with manipulation and corruption.
They're likely going back to thorium. And newer tech, like SMRs. Or smaller powerful units. Micro nuclear reactors.
Thorium reactors also abandoned on the West.
SMRs are nice, but in Russia they already produced commercially for a long time. Last model (РИТМ-200), mainly used on icebreakers . That SMRs could be stacked on ground. Some used on things named "floating power plants" - a ship with SMR(s) that could stay in port and provide 50-100MW of electricity to the land.
IDK, may be West hope that ITER will finally give some results, but producing electricity and even running in self-sustaining mode is not in ITER goals.
Not for the future they want. Everything running on electricity. It means more electricity. America is considering thorium again larger scale. Besides most of these Micros have thorium provisions emergency cooling and core. Russia isn't it called micro reactors. SMRs are different but similar. SMRs are going to be mobile units, almost parked up on trucks, no more static. Think Rolls Royce is largely behind their manufacturer. Newer. Micro reactors have been around a long time subs, aircraft carriers, etc, and those floating reactors popping up increasingly, normally in a chain of units. But a scam, with like a decade shelf life. But safer, wasting much less, and generate huge output for their sizes and don't supposedly emit. Tedious misuse of that concept. Need to buy more, and more. But hey.
They will be becoming more and more available, as opposed to huge powerstations as the grid changes into renewables etc.
There exists few Soviet micro nuclear power plants on trucks. Don't know if they are in working condition today, but that is rather old things. Pamir (Памир, 0.6MW) and TES-3 (ТЭС-3, 1.5MW). They are real things, not some paper projects. There exists projects of new generations of such powerplants ATGOR(АТГОР), but I don't know about their current status.
The problem with them is efficiency. NPP is basically a nuclear boiler and steam turbine. And that things is hard to downscale. You lose efficency nearly exponentially with downsizing and when you come to household level of power (5-15kW), usual and much simplier (so much reliable and fault-proof) RITEG become more effective than traditional boiler-turbine NPP of same output.
In any case, elites will not allow any individual power source for citizens, because they will loose a leverage over population via energy yoke.
There is energy independence in the form of solar but it's a joke. You can't fundamentally repair those parts or build those products and they break like the next shitty gimmick.
Nuclear power no. Never.
Energy independence was things you had control over. The old furnace like the AGA providing all your heating and some electrics, or your OIL tanks or propane gas storage. And the generator. Easily stored and bought on a number of distribution. Today becoming outlawed for the renewable gimmicks. Needs far more services, when it fails in the weather, or it breaks, you go cold until you're back to learning how to make fire again. But they want to ban your ability to make fire. These guys are telling us we need solar powered camp stoves today because of the emissions. Literally insanity.
Nuclear is not small enough to power automobiles, but you're right Russia was trying to fit onto that behemoth transporter it has got. A Nuclear powered truck of some sort. Dunno if they did? Watched it somewhere. Truck no much bigger. Supposedly trains, dunno how that went either? Don't think it called for it in the end.
It is perfect unlimited feeding-rack for cohort of hihg-ranked electromagnetic plasma contamination adepts who at the same time actively suppress financing of other, much more promiseable approaches to fusion reactors.
Could be funny if wasn't so sad.
Bet you won't what? Thorium? Micros use thorium cooling as a precaution also for injecting the core.
Larger scale aren't really for what he discussed, enrichment. But aren't any newer Micros using enrichment, much higher quality Uranium?
But bet on what?
They can get higher 1000, but yea about 250-500.
Welcome to renewables. A consumption con. They're called renew able. I honestly wonder why. You have to keep renewing them that's for sure, they enable even more consumption, you just keep renewing it. Need more power, more things being powered. How long do they last, don't worry about that they're Renew able. Just renew it with another one, but doesn't the cost, yes it's Renew able. So green, think of all that investment.
We are talking about replacing the grid. I am sure they'll figure it out. Just imagine a floatsam of reactors off Florida, with some Turbines and panels. Don't worry about it, because they change the weather. As they run some lines out to Arizona where they've set up all the solar farms. They'll figure out the Renew able.