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Another unwanted dependency on Russia is the finished fuel for Russian reactor designs. Luckily a lot of countries start to go to Westinghouse to let them produce an alternative, but as far as I see it’s only for one nuclear reactor design (VVER-440)

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Westinghouse also supports VVER-1000 too. https://www.westinghousenuclear.com/Portals/0/operating%20pl...

At the same time Russia is building new plants in Turkey, India, Hungary, Egypt, China, Iran and Bangladesh.

And that is actually a good thing, at least as far as climate change is concerned. In the West, it is about existing power plants and energy mixes. In those developing countries tjose nuclear plants actually replace yet-to-be-built coal and other fossil fuel plants. If they are finished fast enough, that is. And operated safely.

A bold move, especially for Hungary. Not sure that plant will ever be finished.

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