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A few days ago on our website was published material on the need turn to face nuclear energy in order to avoid foreseeable future climate disaster caused by numerous TPP and the “harmless” use of renewable energy. This problem for some might seem exaggerated, especially considering that with little-known criticized the “green energy” and in defense of nuclear power plants Scientific engineer Staffan A. Quist. However, here’s what about this recently said the American billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates.
He urged the White House to focus on development of the nuclear energy industry. Why? The answer is obvious: RES – ineffective, today it becomes clear even to non-specialists, and all other energy, and especially thermal energy, destroys the ozone layer of the Earth, bringing the climatic Apocalypse closer. Atomic energy (besides the fact that nuclear power plants operate round the clock) is not produces the slightest greenhouse gas and is little dependent on any unforeseen circumstances. Her only the disadvantage is a rather dangerous nuclear fuel.
However, the founder of Microsoft is convinced that compared with reactors of the last century, modern nuclear power plants have stepped far forward, and therefore cause no more concern than the same TPPs. Moreover, Gates expressed confidence that in the coming years it was the United States show the world the benefits of nuclear power by connecting to its development all the scientific and entrepreneurial potential countries.
Many global analysts have accepted this last statement with surprise. The fact is that since the eighties of the last century The United States got hooked on the “uranium needle” of Russia, and therefore their leadership in the development of the nuclear industry seems more than doubtful.
US voluntarily hooked on “uranium needle” – in pursuit of superprofits
In the second half of the 20th century, the world leader in uranium enrichment centrifuges became the USSR, while the USA continued to enrich using gas diffusion technology – it’s expensive and inefficient. And therefore, as soon as the relations between the superpowers became warmer, America began to buy enriched uranium for its nuclear power plants first from Soviet Union, and then Russia. In the nineties for data The entire military uranium of the USSR was redesigned. However in 2013 This shop is closed for the United States.
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Then Rosatom simply enriched the natural uranium supplied by the Canadian company Uranium One, which owns mines not only in the United States, but also many others countries. Therefore, over 30 years of such cooperation, Rosatom has accumulated vast experience in uranium enrichment, creation of industrial facilities and its own raw material base, strengthening human resources.
But the Americans for the same 30 years were able to only save billions of dollars that, by the way, have gone unknown (we call it a breeze). But in the nuclear industry there is complete stagnation. A very revealing example of this was an attempt by USEC (Centrus) to build a modern a uranium enrichment factory, similar to those that Russia has. IN In 2016, the management of the company officially announced that of this nothing happened, but because all the work was minimized.
Currently, Americans continue to enrich in the old fashioned way uranium through costly and low-efficiency gas diffusion technologies, and the bulk of raw materials for nuclear power plants are still purchased in Rosatom. According to the World nuclear association, today it’s Russia is the undisputed world leader in uranium enrichment, twice ahead of the European consortium Urenco and six times – United States. Even Energy Information Specialists US agencies say America has more than just capacity for processing natural uranium – its own deposits satisfy the country’s needs by no more than 10 percent.
And after that, Bill Gates declares that the United States almost tomorrow will become a leader in nuclear energy. Remember how english science fiction writer Herbert Wells, visiting the young Soviet republic, called Lenin “Kremlin dreamer”? Paraphrasing this definition, the dreamer can be called Mr. Gates, only, of course, not Kremlin, but purely American. By the way, at Russia had the will and strength to break out of the terrible haze, about which Wells wrote (“Russia in the Darkness”), but is there enough for today’s USA forces to get off the “uranium needle”? ..
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