... precisely when Washington is racing against its own deadline, with a target far larger than cutting Russia's funding. The real objective is dominance over the architecture of nuclear energy for the next two decades.
Vladimir Likhachev, Elizaveta Lihacheva:
Nuclear Power and the Global South
The Strategic Chokepoint Named HALEU
The issue is not uranium in general. It is one specific variant that rarely appears in public discourse: High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium, or HALEU—fuel enriched to between five ...
This time, the stakes could not be higher: Vietnam’s energy security, a reset in the strategic partnership with Moscow and Russia’s prospects to cement its presence in Southeast Asia
The idea of developing nuclear power in Vietnam began to take institutional form in the mid-2000s, as economic growth drove sustained demand for new sources of generation. In response to this strategic demand, ties with Russia were brought closer, and in 2010 Moscow and Hanoi ...
... electricity consumption
has grown
by around 12% per year since 2017, more than four times faster than the rate of total electricity consumption. This massive energy demand exposes some shortcomings of traditional energy sources such as coal, gas and large nuclear power plants (NPPs), which often struggle to deliver what modern data centers need the most: flexibility, fast scalability and environmental sustainability. Could small modular reactors (SMRs), with their fundamentally new approach to powering ...
The shift of leadership in nuclear power development from the Global North to the Global South is a natural process of transformation in global energy markets
The role of nuclear power in the world’s energy mix has long been a topic of intense debate among experts, politicians ...
