Posted on 10/05/2018 9:56:56 PM PDT by Steve Schulin
... amid the financial fallout of the West’s attempts at a new nuclear dawn, Russia is quietly building an army of nuclear reactors across the world ...
Kirill Komarov, the first deputy chief executive of Russia’s Rosatom, is also the head of the World Nuclear Association...“We are the ultimate leader in the majority of nuclear sectors,” he says, and it is hard to disagree.
“In the last 11 years we have commissioned 13 new nuclear plants, which is probably the biggest number in the world even compared to the increase from our Chinese friends.”
Rosatom is the leader in constructing new nuclear power plants with eight reactors under construction domestically and 35 at different stages across the globe. Rosatom is also a leader in the export of nuclear fuels, and the second largest reactor operator behind EDF. The majority of these new plants are being built in the developing world...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
People praise Russia for saving South African white farmers from the Bolshevik, Soviet-inspired land redistributing ways of the KGB-trained leftist black government...
Meanwhile the Kremlin is peddling, wheeling and dealing massive nuke deals with some of the most radical and corrupt regimes in Africa including South Africa’s. Reviving and maintaining their same geopolitical ties of the Soviet era.
Yep, they play both sides, kind of like OBama claiming he is fiscally conservative and good for the economy...
I saw an interview the other day with South Africa’s finance minister. He held the same position for a while in the previous South African government (the Zuma administration), but was fired, as best he can tell, because he didn’t agree with a proposed deal to pay Russia to build a nuclear power plant. He noted how expensive the deal would have been — and said if the deal had been made, the tab this year alone would cost 90% of South Africa’s annual government revenues.
Good thing they invested wisely enough to buy 20% of our uranium supply. < /s>
Are they still mining our uranium? If so the deal was illegally wrought and should be made null and void.
Salt reactors or cold fusion reactors made of pig iron are much safer alternatives. With half life measured in decades rather than millenia.
Agree. The LFTR reactors are the place where the USA should be placing the majority of scarce nuclear power R&D. Instead the DOE is putting most of their money into small modular reactors (SMR) based on light water designs.
Also a portion of DOE funding should go to small fusion reactors designs like the ones coming out of MIT.
Nuclear power helps to keep down the world price of oil from Muslim petro-dictatorships, so why should we be concerned if the Russians sell nuclear plants? The real problem is the rules that we in the USA and Europe have adopted to cripple nuclear power.
One word: Chernobyl.
In the USA aging nuclear power plants are being shut down because there is cheaper electricity available via natural gas & renewables.
The US has a fleet of dinasours in the nuclear power industry and exports little in that field.
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