• Alex Beer@nrw.social
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        12 hours ago

        @carrylex you dont put raw uranium into a fission reactor.
        US can not be considered as a reliable partner any more. Canada of course, but why rely on a dependancy?

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          10 hours 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.
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            9 hours 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.

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            9 hours ago

            @carrylex companies don’t care. But it is more than obvious now, that a government should. Renewables can do the Job without a dependency on a foreign source of energy. Germany should put all efforts in distribution, so the renewables are able to take all the load.