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by happymellon 218 days ago
The current "real world constraint" is purchasing gas from Russia.

Yeah, nuclear is better than that.
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bauble12 217 days ago
The thing Ive never quite understood is that the UK has no domestic supply of uranium.
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cjrp 217 days ago
Canada, Australia and Germany are all big exporters; without tempting fate, I don't think the UK will have issues importing from those countries.
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ViewTrick1002 218 days ago
Almost all of Europe has stopped buying Russian gas? The exception being nuclear powered France. [1]

You also do know that we despite 19 sanctions packages still haven’t been able to sanction the Russian nuclear industry? We’re just too dependent on it.

[1]: https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/eu-talks-tough-russian-lng-...

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realusername 217 days ago
The French gas plants have been built to support renewables, France didn't have almost any gas plants prior 2010.

There's no sanctions on the Russian nuclear industry because it's a rounding error financially compared to gas or petrol.

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