Russian Nuclear Deals: News

The brain damaged chimps in Congress and the Senate and their puppet masters are totally deluded about the technological level
of the USA in the nuclear sector. Since they drink their piss-fermented propaganda koolaid about how America is number 1 in
everything they actually believe that America can do whatever it wants. Like build a nuclear power plant. This, of course,
is a total joke.

These clowns are trying to use sanctions and legislative blackmail to force countries around the world not to buy Russian nuclear
plants. The US thinks it owns the planet and that it can impose import restrictions into other countries. The same
BS it pulled in the early 1990s to block Japanese vector super-computers from competing fairly with Cray and which gave us
the scalar parallel garbage that never quite lived up to its claims. The US is also applying its extra-territorial protectionism
to the EU and oil and gas imports from Russia.

Viktor wrote:And what have they been doing up to this point.

So they where competing in a not serious manner and instead they will become serious?

They will compete in Artic in nuclear technology in hypersonic in oil and gas in geopolitics ... I only see they are loosing and from totem reinstating claims we are the

greatest nation on earth should instead scream we have the biggest debt on planet and turn off that ego.

The funny thing is how they want to ban the import of MOX from Russia. These retards don't even know that America cannot produce
MOX. It was never a charity for Russia, it was because Carter banned fuel reprocessing in the USA in the late 1970s. That is over 40
years ago. During this time the USA never developed any capacity for fuel reprocessing and lost any human capital to run such operations.
It's not as if there are moth-balled facilities that can be operated by burger flippers. They have neither the physical plant nor the workers.

Nuclear fuel reprocessing is not some trivial activity. It is complex and involves phyrochemistry innovation. France has MOX production
capability but Russia is number one in the world (for real, not some vapid US style masturbation) in this field.

https://www.nti.org/gsn/article/us-sees-pyroprocessing-as-nuclear-fuel-reprocessing-official/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nukes-plutonium-specialreport/americas-nuclear-headache-old-plutonium-with-nowhere-to-go-idUSKBN1HR1KC

https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/russias-decommissioned-nuclear-bombs-provide-10-of-us-electricity

They dont have a fast breeder reactor, they dont have Gen3+ reactors for crying out loud.

miketheterrible wrote:They dont have a fast breeder reactor, they dont have Gen3+ reactors for crying out loud.

Westinghouse built a Gen3+ (AP1000) reactor in China. But the coolant pump failed. Westinghouse went bankrupt because
it couldn't handle real world construction demands in spite of its AP1000 model. The only reason China is able to deploy
the AP1000 is because of its own skilled workforce.

An MIT report on the state of the US nuclear power industry, one of the few truthful assessments, identifies the reasons for
its failure. In particular the loss of qualified personnel due to a 40 year gap in reactor construction. I posted the link in
another thread a while ago.

kvs wrote:

miketheterrible wrote:They dont have a fast breeder reactor, they dont have Gen3+ reactors for crying out loud.

Westinghouse built a Gen3+ (AP1000) reactor in China.   But the coolant pump failed.   Westinghouse went bankrupt because
it couldn't handle real world construction demands in spite of its AP1000 model.   The only reason China is able to deploy
the AP1000 is because of its own skilled workforce.    

An MIT report on the state of the US nuclear power industry, one of the few truthful assessments, identifies the reasons for
its failure.  In particular the loss of qualified personnel due to a 40 year gap in reactor construction.    I posted the link in
another thread a while ago.  

It should be noted that building a new reactor takes a decade to complete, that's assuming they have an established design without flaws, and for them to train a new generation of young nuclear physicists your talking about  another 20-25 years. By the time their ready to 'compete' with Rosatom, the gap would of widened to 65 years!

Putin offered the world in 2006 to transition to nuclear power to get off the oil crack. He proposed six fuel reprocessing
centers that would be under IAEA control that would disburse fuel to reactors in countries such as Iran and take back
their "waste" for reprocessing. Bush appeared to like it but wanted one of the centers in the USA (for obvious reasons).
But Putin's proposal was torpedoed and we are stuck in the fossil fuel dead end.

I suspect that the oil lobby exerted its influence once again on western regimes. The oil majors are self-anointed masters
of the universe. For example, Exxon is the prime financier of global warming denial (to the tune of hundreds of millions of
dollars spent on shills and rotten journalists). GM did the oil companies major favours in the middle of the last century by
buying out and closing all the electric urban rail (tramway) systems to replace them with diesel buses. Even though the
oil age is clearly in decline due to resource decline, these transnationals refuse to adapt and pretend they can engage
in business as usual forever.

Another reason why Putin's proposal did not fly in the precious west is anti-nuclear paranoia and psychosis. Western
sheeple are seriously f*cked up in the head when it comes to nuclear power. For example, France's Superphenix
program was sabotaged by outright terrorism, mass protests and the French Green Party. Even though this was
a viable fast neutron breeder reactor program that would have consumed so-called nuclear waste.

kvs wrote:

Putin offered the world in 2006 to transition to nuclear power to get off the oil crack.   He proposed six fuel reprocessing
centers that would be under IAEA control that would disburse fuel to reactors in countries such as Iran and take back
their "waste" for reprocessing.   Bush appeared to like it but wanted one of the centers in the USA (for obvious reasons).
But Putin's proposal was torpedoed and we are stuck in the fossil fuel dead end.

I suspect that the oil lobby exerted its influence once again on western regimes.    The oil majors are self-anointed masters
of the universe.   For example, Exxon is the prime financier of global warming denial (to the tune of hundreds of millions of
dollars spent on shills and rotten journalists).    GM did the oil companies major favours in the middle of the last century by
buying out and closing all the electric urban rail (tramway) systems to replace them with diesel buses.    Even though the
oil age is clearly in decline due to resource decline, these transnationals refuse to adapt and pretend they can engage
in business as usual forever.  

Another reason why Putin's proposal did not fly in the precious west is anti-nuclear paranoia and psychosis.   Western
sheeple are seriously f*cked up in the head when it comes to nuclear power.   For example, France's Superphenix
program was sabotaged by outright terrorism, mass protests and the French Green Party.   Even though this was
a viable fast neutron breeder reactor program that would have consumed so-called nuclear waste.  

Agree complete! Go green means go nuclear!

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Russian-Nuclear-Giant-Rosatom-Eyes-10-Of-Lithium-Market-By-2030.html

Russian Nuclear Giant Rosatom Eyes 10% Of Lithium Market By 2030

Uranium One, a unit of Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy firm Rosatom, plans to begin producing lithium by 2023, targeting between 9% and 10% of the global market by 2030.

“We are considering the acquisition of raw material assets overseas to integrate into global supply chains for final products such as batteries with localized production in Russia,” Sergey Polgorodnik, general director of Joint Stock Co. TENEX, told a weekly in-house news publication.

Uranium One has been actively looking for lithium assets in the past year. In October, it inked a memorandum of understanding with Canada’s Wealth Minerals about acquiring up to a 51% interest in the company’s Atacama lithium project in northern Chile.

The asset covers a 46,200-hectare license in one of the world’s highest grade and largest sources of the white metal, which has become an irreplaceable component of rechargeable batteries used in high tech devices and electric vehicles (EVs).

Chile’s Atacama salt flat, home to leading lithium producers Albemarle and SQM, accounts for around one-third the world’s supply of the battery metal.

In December 2019, Uranium One began talks with Australia’s Prospect Resources (ASX:PSC) to buy a stake of the company’s Arcadia lithium mine in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe has been pushing lithium as a major draw for investors as it looks to supply 10% of the world’s needs by 2022. The country is currently the fifth-largest global producer of the white metal.