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.
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.
The problem with "green" shit is even not a complexity. The problem is that you don't have wind or sun every day, but need energy constantly. "green" shit could somehow work only in small regions of the world, but completely useless as main power source elswhere.
Didn't heard anything about implementation of nuclear powered truck. Beforementioned truck based NPPs was a movable power stations to provide energy in case of emergency for towns and villages, for powering remote locations or for some special needs. They was several behemoth transporters with different modules of powerplant on board that connected on place to create a powerstation with around 1MW electrical power output.
However, Both US and USSR had a projects of cars powered by nuclear reactor - Ford Nucleon and Volga Atom. But that was only concepts without any real attempts to implement them, at least officially.
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.
Exactly. Next generation, built for 2x price will have 7200s runtime. :)
Me too. :) And LPG, and gas, and wood and even PE,PP,PET garbage. More CO2 to atmosphere! Let's make our planet green from pole to pole again!