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.
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.
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?