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There are indeed positive signs. The emerging builder who has an established reputation delivering on time and budget is indeed KHNP. They've done it on their all their last export projects, specifically including Barakkah in UAE and Qinshan Phase 3 near Shanghai.

Making news in Canada this week was the approval of a geologic used fuel facility in Ignace, Ontario. The decision was not even close: 77% of the town voted in favour, 21% opposed and 2% no opinion. And this came from more than 65% of eligible voters. This is enormous, as municipal elections here usually get only a 30% voter turnout.

Italy indeed walked away from nuclear power, and it's been regretting the decision ever since. As Zion noted, Italy is importing as much electricity as it can, mostly from French nuclear power plants. It cannot import any more because all of the transmission lines, both those from France and those from Switzerland, are fully loaded. So since Italy needs more electricity, it has no choice but to buy other people's oil, coal and gas. Italy has none of these resources of its own, so it has to pay a premium for any new electricity.

There is an important nuance with the decision by the Czech Republic. In previous years, it was heavily engaged in electricity exchanges with Germany. However, Germany has doomed itself to a situation of permanent and growing electricity shortages with Energiewende. So the Czechs must build more nuclear power to ensure they have electricity because Germany cannot be relied on for grid stability.

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The proposed Dolores Canyon National Monument in southwestern Co encompasses nearly the entire Uravan Mineral Belt. Located in San Miguel, Mesa, and Montrose Counties, this area has accounted for about 77% of the total uranium produced in Colorado. Environmental activists had successfully stopped all mining production until recently. Energy Fuels, the leading U.S. producer of Uranium and vanadium has commenced production near the proposed monument..Rearing their ugly head, the same activists push for the monument, under the guise of conservation, will conveniently stop all new mining claims. The Dolores Canyon has layers of protection already..This is nothing more than Bidens, America The Beautiful initiative, 30x30 and Antiquities abuse..Please, sign the petition to halt the Dolores monument…

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You asked why not? And now it is happening, more every day. Focus on science, engineering project management and application of software gets results, Korea’s price is less than 1/3 of the vogtle debacle. RIP the nuclear-regulatory complex that traded technical advance for lucrative retrofits based on radiophobic junk science. The global market finds a way around vested bureaucracies and will power past Trump and Biden’s ban on scientific exchange and joint ventures for fission technology development. Support your local fission! It will intensify energy production and lay the foundation for intensification of all production and lifestyle.

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Try writing something true instead of just making things up. Trump never expressed antinuclear policies or statements throughout his life. Obama by his policies did. The rest of your post is incoherent nonsense.

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True is that the Trump administration compelled Terrapower to end its partnership with SINAP, which set back Terrapower's fission technology development. The common mercantile vision of Lighthizer and Sullivan seeks further schism of and restraint on fission development and supply chains, and persecution of students and scientists as 'spies'.

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