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1. Jedd+(OP)[view] [source] 2024-01-28 13:04:47
> Finland achieved energy self sufficiency last year thanks to a good combination of nuclear

Is this a fission plant that uses fuel mined in Canada, Kazakhstan, and Australia?

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2. cassep+Nq[view] [source] 2024-01-28 16:06:15
>>Jedd+(OP)
I think you are implying that this self sufficiency is illusory

To which I would respond that France could hold two years with its uranium reserves if the world stopped selling it Uranium.

Gasoline reserves in comparison would last three months.

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3. Jedd+f59[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-01-31 05:14:34
>>cassep+Nq
Illusory? Perhaps.

Certainly 'self-sufficient' is inaccurate, given the reliance on external inputs.

If other nation states are also not self-sufficient for fissionable materials, and/or other fuel types, then I would also not call them self-sufficient on power generation.

Sure, there are degrees of reliance on providers of fuel types, but no need to muddy the waters about self-sufficiency. (f.e. Australia could be self-sufficient on solar, wind, coal, fission, I suspect - at least in terms of raw materials.)

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