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@stoy@lemmy.zip

2026-10-28 06:11 UTC

Do you realize how heavily Europe still depends on fossil fuels today? And that some of its nuclear reactors still use fuel supplied by Russia? Yes. If your big argument is avoiding dependence on hostile suppliers, swapping Russian gas for Russian nuclear fuel is a pretty spectacular blind spot. When did I mention using Russian nuclear fuel? Sweden has actually a fair bit of uranium, we could mine it, have France process it and run our nuclear plants on our own fuel.

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  • @eicker@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 06:15

    You may import turbines or panels, but no foreign government can turn off your wind or sunshine. Equipment supply chains can be diversified: imported fuel remains a recurring dependency. That’s a pretty important difference.

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