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The US may soon get its first new source of nuclear fuel in 70 years
(www.canarymedia.com)
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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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Shouldn't the article at least talk about the tech then?
It does tho? The whole point is that new reactors need this special HALEU fuel but the only current supplier in the world is from a Russian company, but there's one starting up in the US now, helped by the government, to provide fuel for a bunch of new nuclear startups that almost all require the special fuel. It even explains what is special about the fuel and how it's made, and a little about why it's needed. Not very in depth, but still. It's more about the logistics and economics of bringing this nuclear tech back to the US than the actual tech itself, which is still valuable in a tech discussion forum.
I understand what you're saying. I was hoping this community was mostly about tech and not the geopolitical aspect of what drives tech.
I believe it still mostly is, but a key part of most is that it is not all, so its ok to have a few posts here and there about the economics and/or geopolitics. Tbh one of the more interesting parts to me was the struggle of getting production started because fuel production has to start a few years before reactor start, so there is a large supply/demand hurdle to get over, and it's interesting the difference in how it was done the first time when nuclear energy was just starting out as opposed to now.