Well, I suppose it’s good to see this, even if a little later and on contrary tack at times to our earlier predictions.

First, from the high-status Foreign Policy on January 20^th 2025:

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

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/

Second, In the i in April 2025, the above and:

As Iran successfully hacks a ‘small’ gas-fired power station how do Scottish Labour propose to protect their multiple small modular nuclear reactors

Sometimes he would patrol rural lanes on foot, carrying his assault rifle, looking out for any terrorists hiding in the countryside. On other assignments he would man machine guns mounted on armoured ships, watching for any sign of hostile vessels coming his way. Or he would drive in weapons-laden road convoys, monitoring potential threats from vehicles.

While serving as an armed officer with the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC), Matt Okuhara saw every aspect of how the UK’s nuclear power stations and their radioactive fuel are protected from terrorists.

He spent years escorting the transport of uranium fuel to and from plants, which would be planned for months in advance. “Nuclear material is at its most vulnerable when it’s in transit,” he explains. “You’ve got to move it as secretly as possible.”

‘I guarded Britain’s nuclear sites – our security can’t cope with new mini reactors’

His main point is that this would be impossible with the very large number of these small sites planned compared to the current 9 large stations.

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