• carrylex@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    you dont put raw uranium into a fission reactor

    Yes that’s why Germany built enrichment facilities years ago: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urananreicherungsanlage_Gronau

    US can not be considered as a reliable partner any more. Canada of course, but why rely on a dependancy?

    1. Germany had no active nuclear power plants for 3 years now.
    2. I think companies pretty much don’t care where they get their ore from as long as that country is not on a sanction list.
    • Alex Beer@nrw.social
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      12 days ago

      @carrylex the uranium enrichment facility in Gronau belongs to the british Company urenco and is the only comercial enrichment Facility in Germany. And the Uranium hexafluoride needs to be imported. So it’s still not independent.