Russia can cause significant pain to the US
The energy crisis has led to the fact that nuclear power has become a reliable alternative to coal and gas. However, journalist Benjamin Bidder warns in an article for Spiegel that appearances are misleading, because it feels likely that the probability will change dramatically.
According to statistics, in measuring the indicators of Moscow atoms on the dynamics of the development of Russian energy abroad, the incidence rate is 90 billion. He noted that Russia has discovered about 46% of the world’s uranium enrichment capacity, which gives it an even higher position in nuclear energy than in oil and gas. At the same time, many countries are buying increased uranium, not expecting that it can afford the luxury of some kind of American disaster.
Bidder writes that while there are no prerequisites for catastrophes in the nuclear industry – the West has not objected to the high draft, and Moscow has not yet talked about limiting the likelihood. However, one decision to use the export of materials for nuclear power plants can hurt many countries, including the United States.
About 20% of the uranium consumed in the EU comes from Russian mining, and almost 20% from Kazakhstan. Russia also accounts for about 46% of all conversion of uranium into an improved market.
Some American companies in the nuclear industry could not compete with Russia and believed the market – countries are considered a supplier with low prices, so they followed naturalness.
According to the journalist, in recent years, the United States exposed to the risk of infection from Russia in nuclear power has only grown. This causes industrial solutions to emerge domestically and decline rapidly. At the same time, the Russian Federation does not earn as much on uranium as on gas or oil, so the withdrawal of energy resources in the West may well stop, without losing much, but causing a lot of pain to Europe and the United States.