top | item 43267323 (no title) rhubinak | 1 year ago Because it's cheap. Russia needs money to wage war so it sells stuff. Again, nobody is wholly dependent on Russia. discuss order hn newest throw0101a|1 year ago > Because it's cheap.I doubt that the US is buying from Russia—you know, the country/government which it threw sanctions on in all sorts of ways—because "it's cheap".Recently a ban on importation was started, and it included a couple of billion for more processing facilities in the US:* https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/climat...It's a supply chain issue that took some time to sort out:* https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-nuclear-fuel-agreemen... rhubinak|1 year ago Also, that uranium could have come from pre-war contracts. Anyway, I think we're in agreement:* There are uranium enrichment facilities outside Russia, even in Europe* There's uranium outside Russia, even in Europe (look at Czechia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_r...)So, let's build a plant.
throw0101a|1 year ago > Because it's cheap.I doubt that the US is buying from Russia—you know, the country/government which it threw sanctions on in all sorts of ways—because "it's cheap".Recently a ban on importation was started, and it included a couple of billion for more processing facilities in the US:* https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/climat...It's a supply chain issue that took some time to sort out:* https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-nuclear-fuel-agreemen... rhubinak|1 year ago Also, that uranium could have come from pre-war contracts. Anyway, I think we're in agreement:* There are uranium enrichment facilities outside Russia, even in Europe* There's uranium outside Russia, even in Europe (look at Czechia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_r...)So, let's build a plant.
rhubinak|1 year ago Also, that uranium could have come from pre-war contracts. Anyway, I think we're in agreement:* There are uranium enrichment facilities outside Russia, even in Europe* There's uranium outside Russia, even in Europe (look at Czechia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_r...)So, let's build a plant.
throw0101a|1 year ago
I doubt that the US is buying from Russia—you know, the country/government which it threw sanctions on in all sorts of ways—because "it's cheap".
Recently a ban on importation was started, and it included a couple of billion for more processing facilities in the US:
* https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/climat...
It's a supply chain issue that took some time to sort out:
* https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-nuclear-fuel-agreemen...
rhubinak|1 year ago
* There are uranium enrichment facilities outside Russia, even in Europe
* There's uranium outside Russia, even in Europe (look at Czechia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_r...)
So, let's build a plant.