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The US is heavily dependent on foreign countries for 31 minerals designated as “critical” to national security by the Department of Defence, including uranium for nuclear reactors and fluorspar, which is used in nuclear fuel, Forrest Remick, emeritus professor of nuclear engineering at Pennsylvania State University, wrote in Penn Live.
Mr Remick, who is also a retired commissioner of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said US dependence on foreign minerals has doubled in the past 20 years and called for “a diverse supply chain” for minerals including uranium.
Mr Remick, who is also a retired commissioner of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said US dependence on foreign minerals has doubled in the past 20 years and called for “a diverse supply chain” for minerals including uranium.
He said the US imports 93% of its uranium needs, and a large share comes from Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, whose state-owned companies are flooding the global market and driving free-market companies out of business.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 28 August 2019
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/us-needs-diverse-supply-chain-says-former-nrc-commissioner-8-5-2019
It is now 75 years since the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn and colleagues in Berlin. It is also 60 years after US president Dwight Eisenhower's UN address later known as the 'Atoms for Peace' speech, which essentially started the international nuclear supply industry.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 05 February 2014
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-power-and-the-civil-military-link-4171667