98% of our Nuclear Plant Electricty Comes from Kazakhstan, Niger, Russia

Update Feb 1

The NRC Import/Export guy gave me a call. We talked for about one hour. He was a very nice guy. Basically he said the NRC is set up for safety of nuclear plants and others. He basically said no one in the NRC has any idea how much foreign uranium or special nuclear materials are used in the USA. Special nuclear material is basically yellow cake and any increase concentration of U235.

Michael Mulligan <steamshovel2002@yahoo.com>

To:OPA.Resource@nrc.gov

‎Feb‎ ‎1 at ‎7‎:‎58‎ ‎PM

Christopher Douglas

They think I might get the NYT's to help me. I talked to the NRC import/ export branch chief today. Everything is obscured surround this. I can't wait for, Mike you are going to throw in FOIA talk.

Mike

The setup of laws and the assortment of US agencies is to obscure the true extent of foreign uranium, at the behest of the utilities, in domestic nuclear reactor. Our main sources of uranium comes from extremely unstable countries and this is making the US nuclear increasing unstable. I contend our US monies are increasing going to nefarious purposes. I also contend the US utilities money can be used against US for bad purposes in these shaky countries.             

Updated Jan 31

I talked to lots of NRC officials. Hmm, the import/export arm of the NRC and a local and Washington Public Affair guys. Sent a memo to the Washington guy.

The local PA guy posed a interesting question. He doesn't believe the numbers. He posed, we have a lot of nuclear fuel facilities in the USA. Maybe(me) its for our Navy. I know they recycle their fuel though.

I wonder what percentage of the Navy's fuel comes from foreign sources? 

In the Megaton to Megawatts day, I thought the system was riddle with fraud. Uranium not associated with nuclear weapons was leaking into the program. In my days interested in this, I found some 90% of our nuclear fuel was coming from unstable and poorly governed areas. The vast amount of fuel came from Russia. Where did our millions of dollars go? To help  the Russians become a better country or go to the Russian mafia or dispersed as worldwide terrorism and national destabilization programs. The Russian get our hard currency, the Americans get cheap uranium with little employee safety oversight by government authorities and zero environmental care. It severely undermine are US uranium markets too.  The foreign employees are basically poor slaves in this condition...we get cheap uranium to power our nuclear plants to keep them viable and healthy profits to the struggling industry.

If I was head of some anti nuke group, I'd be making at lot of hay about how our nuclear industry is so severely dependent on Russian uranium and others. In my days, I was told 90% of our nuclear plants were power up by the Russians. It must be over 95% today. How much would it hurt the Russians if we prohibited Russian uranium into the USA, also refining to yellow cake and centrifuging services? How much could the Russians damage us if they prohibited selling uranium services to us?  

I think the uranium one adventure was basically a market blocking thing. Russia and others was making so much money over us, this was their attempt to capture the US Uranium market. They were trying to block US new Uranium from enter the US market. 

The utility industry holds tremendous sway over our politicians. This is just a example with how they hold vice gripe powers over our lives. Whether is our Nuclear One scandal Republicans or the greedy money grubbing Democrats, everyone is terrified by the powerful electric utilities. Nobody wants to damage the electric utilities by talking about our extraordinary dependence on foreign uranium coming from very shaky countries. 

So we are becoming a mega petroleum and natural gas producer country. Why can't we do that with uranium? 

The antinukes, I think they are in bed with the nuclear industry...

“Is the U.S. Too Relianton Foreign Uranium for Nuclear Power Plant Fuel?”

Amir Adnani, founder, president, and CEO of Uranium Energy Corp., spoke to POWER about the state of the nuclear industry. He suggested a national security crisis is looming in the U.S. The reason is that the nuclear reactor fleet requires about 50 million pounds of uranium per year to opethe other rate. However, U.S. mines are currently on pace to produce less than 1 million pounds of uranium this year. That means roughly 98% of the fuel must be imported. Much of the uranium available in the market comes from nations such as Kazakhstan, Niger, Russia, and Uzbekistan—not exactly countries the U.S. should feel comfortable relying on.