Labour’s planned small modular reactors – inefficient, polluting and carcinogenic – will also be dependent on high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) from Putin’s Russia which has ‘complete monopoly’ to undermine our energy security

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By Professor John Robertson OBA

I’m grateful to @NickyZog for alerting me to these sources.

From the high-status Foreign Policy on January 2oth 2025:

For the United States—a country that, especially under incoming President-elect Donald Trump, aspires to be not only energy secure but energy dominant—one energy insecurity problem remains, which could dog the development of a key source of new power.

Some five months after the United States swore off imports of Russian enriched uranium, a key source of fuel for the nuclear reactors that provide almost 20 percent of the country’s electricity, U.S. reliance on imports, including from Russia, remains an issue. At stake is less the fuel supply for the current fleet of nuclear reactors than the fuel for the coming generation of advanced nuclear plants that are meant to provide all the extra power needed to run data centers and power artificial intelligence; Russia has a complete monopoly on the commercial production of that richer blend of fuel.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/20/us-russia-china-europe-energy-uranium/

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7 thoughts on “Labour’s planned small modular reactors – inefficient, polluting and carcinogenic – will also be dependent on high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) from Putin’s Russia which has ‘complete monopoly’ to undermine our energy security”

  1. I wonder why it’s such a necessity to have control over the oil that was sold off to the markets yet pursue nuclear reactors that would be totally dependent on imported fuel.

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  2. strange when I take your headline onto tiktok it says a community violation but if i tweek it it goes through

    any thoughts

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  3. ” Russia has a complete monopoly on the commercial production of that richer blend of fuel ” – They’ve kept that one quiet…

    An interesting article https://archive.ph/adfq9 in itself, but as your headline conveys, it casts further shade on Murray’s promotion of these already mysterious SMRs for Scotland.

    I was further surprised to hear that Norway is currently in an energy crisis, with eye-watering prices causing a public outcry – I’d lay odds Norway are smarting over the Peterhead interconnect having been gazumped by the Tories to feed Drax, and raises questions over vulnerability of that supply to England due to source demand.

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