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.
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.