How France Aims to Snatch Russia’s Nuclear Market - VisualPolitik EN 

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Your forgot one big mistake we did in France : closing superphoenix and astrid, the 4th generation nuclear reactors that can consume the rest of the uranium. I wish we started another project like it to sever our dependance on uranium ore from other countries as depleted uranium could then be used as fuel.

Just a couple of points: 1) PWR reactors (the most used nuclear power plant design) can use also MOX, a recycled fuel obtained by reprocessing nuclear spent fuel 2)Uranium price accounts for 5% on total atomic energy price, so even if uranium becomes more expensive is not the end of the world (for a term of comparison, Natural Gas cost represents 90% of NG electricity prices) 3)in long term, autofertilizer reactors could manifacure fuel for other power plants and actually France had a research reactor for this purspose (which was closed because uranium is cheap and made no economic sense to find an alternative) 4) if you want to be indipendent from everyone, choose Canada's thug life. Build PHWR reactors. Being moderated by heavy water, they can use almost every nuclear fuel in the world (MOX, non enriched uranium and potentially thorium). They cost a bit more but you are indipendent from market fluctuations 5) most important point Current suppliers are in this position because are the cheapest alternative on the market. If they become unavailable, simply other countries will start to exploit their mines (if the price increases, generally also the number of mines that can provide said resoure is expanded) and supply France. That's the case of Australia or Canada, which are not working at full capacity of extraction

I'm Australian. We've got tons of Uranium. We just don't like mining it. Walk around Arnhem Land long enough, you'll glow in the dark. Our first Uranium customers were India and Pakistan. They used it to make enough Nuclear Weapons to wipe out humanity. Kind of put us off mining the crap.

Great video. But it's based on the premise that nuclear fission always means U-235. There's another option - the Thorium fuel cycle, as used by Gen 4 reactors like LFTR. Thorium is basically everywhere on Earth, so nobody could hold the world to ransom. And of course nuclear fusion is 20 years away. Has been for decades.

Us mining produces relatively large quantities of uranium as a byproduct of operations. with a pen stroke much of this could find itself on the market instead of reburied. it's also worth noting much if this includes other rare Earths, steps have been taken in this direction but more could be done.

Plenty Uranium here in Australia..

Another non mentioned factor is that France currently holds uranium reserves for about 50 years of its national consumption. So there is no risk of a lack of material, the logistics just have to be adjusted.

“Europe is going back to nuclear” How the turn tables.

If we develop 4th gen reactors we will be able to use the uranium we already have

Great vid, thanks bro

Very interesting. Was wondering what was happening with all of this!

Really France is a dark horse when it comes to nuclear program.

Uranium enrichment can be lowered, along with burnups. This will allow France to create a stopgap solution, less enrichment and uranium needed today, more needed in a few years. However, this can be filled using MOX fuels.

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I hope it'll work out for France. And Deu will re-nuclearize. Nuclear power is grteen. Sure, not renewable, but still good. Thorium could be another step forward.

This is interesting.

Was this video rushed into production? The content was amazing as always but most of the visuals were in no way related to what was being said, while talking about fuel enrichment the visuals showed heavy industry, there was a good bit of ITER in a video on nuclear fission, and Africa while talking about Mongolia!

Don't forget the new HALEU (High Assay Low Enriched Uranium) method that makes the uranium fuel more efficient and means that less uranium is needed.

czech republic is not central europe anymore?

France just lost bits uranium supply. What are you talking about

Diversification of energy sources is a requirement imposed by EU regulations. It is also main reason why Nord Stream 2 was never "certified".

16:15 or one could use tunable lasers to enrich the uranium. It could be done in a garage I hear.

Out of curiosity, can the team cover how the attempt at Fussion /Fission energy experiment is going in France. The international funded attempt. Kind regards me

one side but great video

Oh my, Junta?!! like in june? thats unbelievable

Resource curse is when a country does benefit from a resource, at the cost of all other economic activity.

they need more reactors, which can use natural uranium. Those reactors are in Canada.

USA and Canada not only have theit own uranium supplies but the USA has a centrifugal enrichment plant. Its been in operation for a number of years but not much information is known about it. There seems to have always been a vale of silence surrounding its use and operation.

Renewables will be so cheap nuclear won't stand a chance. In the U.S. solar with four hours of storage is cheaper than gas let alone nuclear. I expect that in around five years nuclear to be considered obsolete. Oil is expected to get obsolete by 2030.

Dream on.

And using videos from the construction of ITER reactor is not appropriate when talking about enrichment and fission reactors.

A lot of Siemens 😅

Go on solar and energy storage batteries ..

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it can try but it needs to secure the supply for uranium and rusia will change regimes in africa with very much ease and cut france from uranium there so there is left only to buy from australia but australia does not want to process uranium

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Wishful thinking. Disinformation.

Idk in 2009 theire is 433 nucléar power plan in the world now 411. In France both Orano/EDF lose 10 to 20 billion a year (before invest). Eatch time France go by or build in nucléar sector in foreight country it cost billion of loss : USA, GB, Finland, China. The russian nuke industry didn't do better : they just stand because of oil profit spend in it.

Solar and wind really need to keep growing exponentially every year because this didn't really inspire confidence in long term uranium fuel supply. USA and Australia and other friendly countries really need to step up their game with uranium fuel supply. But maybe thorium can help out with this issue.

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We do not need uranium for nuclear power, we can use Thorium. There is 3 times more Thorium than Uranium, enough to last 40,000yrs. Old nuclear power stations may need Uranium for another 50yrs. But there are so many options for nuclear power and the nuclear power technology is mature and advancing, we just do not exploit green nuclear power because of old ideas from the 80's based anti-nuclear lobbies and green parties. We have the solution to solve climate change with nuclear power, we need to use more nuclear power as soon as we can.

But ITER doesn't use uranium. 😅

Nee-zher!

Why oh why can't my nation of Australia whom is rich in uranium change it's policy and utilise these power plants for base load power to cover our current and future needs. Im sure that it can be recycled to the point of minimal storage .

Thorium

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Yes - France will succeed. Spent fuel can be reprocessed. Breeder reactors can be built to produce new fuel. There is about four times as much Thorium in the world than Uranium. This could either be used alone in reactors or blended with Uranium. There is no doubt that there are undeveloped ore bodies that could be mined. As more countries enter the nuclear power option, the economy of scale will probably reduce costs as the market will encourage new investment in more efficient means of production. As more countries produce nuclear energy, there will be a stronger incentive for new producers to enter this growing market.

You think 5.5% of the revenue mining rent is abusive? In Serbia, my country, the rent is 3% of the mining company's profit - yes, profit, not revenue. If you guys think abusive treatment of countries is reserved for Africa, you're sorely mistaken.

Without resources France is no march for Russia

France will only be able to succeed if Germany and its lobbies do not do everything to make it fail because the Germans have spent tens of billions in renewable energies over the past decade and they need to export their surpluses at all costs. And this can only be done at the expense of the French nuclear production which supplies a significant part of the dispatchable electricity in the European grid.

ruzzia's arsenal is depotentiated in every way, shape, form and size.

Junta is pronounced as "Hoon-tah" FFS! Not "June-tah"

We already sign with Mongolia five day ago.

We dont neet france in Afrika und we do everything france out of Afrika

france will never be able to replace russia when it come to the nuclear energy!

"If you’re watching this from Germany". That hit home. We do have a bit of a strange relationship with nuclear energy.

NU-CLE-AR. FFS.

I was living in Germany, and dating a German back in 2011... She got really pissed when I laughed at her for attending an anti Atomkraft rally... who laughing now? (The correct answer is no-one. :/)

lol thank god Yellow Teeth isn't doing this video. You rock Josh.

China has successfully commissioned SMR Linglong~1 to benefit mankind.

Fast breeder reactor

The graph in percentages for payments is a bullshit way of displaying the information. Who even thinks about it like that, seriously???? I don't understand why the video glosses over the fact that KZ U cost 2 (money) per amount while NE U cost .25 (money) per amount. IDK about most of you but if I knew I could buy the same thing for 8X cheaper it would never become anything but my top supplier. I would definitely diversify but I would make sure they remain the ones delivering the most product since it would make me more profitable.

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Its pronounced as "HU-N-TAH" not "Joo-un-tah". Its Spanish, get it right.

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France does not have the capacity to build out reactors for everyone who needs them.

THERE ARE BIG DIFERENT BETWEEN Russia and France because of natural resources.Russia have unlimited natural resources so there is not competition between Russia and FRANCE IN THIS MARKET

Russia has very competitive price edge on nuclear reactor well as nuclear fuel (ore and enrichment) Russian reactor Rosatom VVER-1200 (PWR type) is about 1/3-1/5 cost of Western nuclear reactor of similar capacity. (as low as 1,200-2,000 USD per kW capacity) No wonder Russia would have dominated and monopolized world nuclear industry unless political reason.

So that's why France is coming to my country Bangladesh. France want to find every country it can get it's hands on to get as much uranium as possible by using the least amount of work, by giving just what the country leader wants, for my country it's Frances's fighter jets

Inner Mongolia needs to secede from China and go back to Mongolia. Yeah, I know... Good luck with that!

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Another anti-Russian video, that tells you that everything is as usual at VisualPolitik office

Thumbs down for mispronouncing "Junta"

FRANCE if was getting uranium at fair prices then it would not have been so much worried about leaving NIGER but it was getting it for pennies, almost free so it is in panic mode...with taking 50% of african colonies foreign reserve too which is slowly slowly going away from france..

France Will chicken out

Wind is a little unreliable, but at least it's not buried in a war torn country. And if drought threatens the cooling of the reactors... Maybe nuclear isn't so reliable either.

An Australian company Silex has invented and patented in both Australia and USA the third generation of uranium enrichment method; LASER ENRICHMENT. Its ASX share price will go gangbusters

The more I hear about the energy markets, the more I understand how stupid western governments are. How can these people go to the best schools in the work and still not see the errors of there deals with unfriendly states?

You don’t have good intelligence or information regarding France and Mongolia. Let’s just say that it is not going to be as you anticipate.

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It's rather the other way around. France is losing its foothold in the Sahel (the source of uranium), while most future NPPs (primariliy those in developing nations) will be Russian built. Plus, France has lost the nuclear know-how by now, its last nuclear unit was commissioned in 1990s.

Pootin would mess up a nuclear power station and cause a massive explosion.

Go hydrogen and say tatas to Saudis and Russia

We can tell a lot more bad things about the West, but do we need to start every video talking about it?

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This is what you would call, a coverup video, 5.5% tax? really? why wont you say the actual prices that one company would sell the ore to compare with actual global markets? oh that's why. A coverup video.

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Nah. The French sources of cheap uranium are gone now that most of west Africa is finally becoming truly independent.

Hahahaha

Question, where will France get uranium

France Pa-ra-si-tes in Africa!!

go go France!

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Your anti-Russia propaganda is baffling and so biased. You lose perspective when it comes to Russia.