I guess one major reason Biden cannot deploy US army to Ukraine to fight Russia is because the US cannot afford cutting diplomatic relation with Russia because the US needs to import uranium fuel from Russia for nuclear power. What do you think, is this the reason Biden turned down Zelensky's request to deploy US army to Ukraine?
@Akim
I posted this article a year ago.
Bill Gates’ nuclear startup wins $750M, loses sole fuel source
TerraPower notches a record-setting investment round led by South Korea’s SK. But it has no supplier of the enriched fuel it needs, now that sourcing from Russia is off the table.
18 August 2022
Nuclear fission startup
TerraPower, founded and chaired by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has
raised $750 million to develop advanced nuclear reactors to serve as alternatives to the light-water reactors that make up the vast majority of the world’s civilian nuclear fleet. But cash alone won’t be enough to get the startup over the many hurdles that stand in its way.
TerraPower’s Natrium fast reactor design is radically different from the design of traditional nuclear reactors. For starters, it’s smaller. A typical reactor in the U.S. produces 1,000 megawatts of power. TerraPower’s first demonstration reactor, now being
planned for a site in Wyoming, will have a capacity of 345 megawatts. The smaller size could enable the reactor to be built cheaply in a factory and not expensively on-site.
The Natrium reactor will also use a different fuel and a different coolant than standard nuclear reactors. It will be fueled by
high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU), which is enriched with more uranium than the fuel used in traditional nuclear plants. And the coolant will be high-temperature liquid sodium instead of water.
TerraPower notches a record-setting investment round led by South Korea's SK. But it has no supplier of the enriched fuel it needs, now that sourcing from Russia is off the table.
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