How France Aims to Snatch Russia’s Nuclear Market - VisualPolitik EN
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Description: France has a strategy to become the major alternative to Russia in the international nuclear fuel market, currently dominated by the large Russian State corporation, Rosatom. The French company Orano has the expertise and the uranium necessary to achieve this. Yet the coup d'état in Niger has jeopardized its aspirations. So the question is: What does what is happening in Niger have to do with the French strategy? What is Macron planning? In this video we tell you.
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Many say that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is energy motivated. They did hold the 2nd largest reserves in Europe. After stealing Crimea, The ones in the Black Sea now falls under Russian occupation. And after the 2022 invasion, approx 1/3rd also fall under occupation.
This never had to do w/NATO, Nazis, or any other ridiculous claims.
Your forgot one big mistake we did in France : closing superphoenix and astrid, the 4th generation nuclear reactors that can consume the rest of the uranium. I wish we started another project like it to sever our dependance on uranium ore from other countries as depleted uranium could then be used as fuel.
Also, AVLIS enrichment of uranium, and (hold on) isotopic separation of plutonium, allowing them to utilize MOX fuel more effectively, while removing Pu-238 (Which NASA needs for spacecrafts) and Pu-242 (waste product to be used in fast reactors).
As a Canadian I wonder why you would want to sever imports of Canadian uranium? One of the largest mining companies in Canada is French owned. I would say our government and economy is more stable than any other uranium producer.
@@reddeercanoe Run it through a CANDU reactor first, reprocess it and let the French make MOX fuels.
You can allways do it at anytime. If France can really become a land for entretreneurs, plus all the domestic industries it has that give it much independence, it can become again a Great Power.
@@reddeercanoe it could be a disruptive recycling break through (and cost effective) : nothing to do with our canadians friends !
Just a couple of points:
1) PWR reactors (the most used nuclear power plant design) can use also MOX, a recycled fuel obtained by reprocessing nuclear spent fuel
2)Uranium price accounts for 5% on total atomic energy price, so even if uranium becomes more expensive is not the end of the world (for a term of comparison, Natural Gas cost represents 90% of NG electricity prices)
3)in long term, autofertilizer reactors could manifacure fuel for other power plants and actually France had a research reactor for this purspose (which was closed because uranium is cheap and made no economic sense to find an alternative)
4) if you want to be indipendent from everyone, choose Canada's thug life.
Build PHWR reactors.
Being moderated by heavy water, they can use almost every nuclear fuel in the world (MOX, non enriched uranium and potentially thorium). They cost a bit more but you are indipendent from market fluctuations
5) most important point
Current suppliers are in this position because are the cheapest alternative on the market. If they become unavailable, simply other countries will start to exploit their mines (if the price increases, generally also the number of mines that can provide said resoure is expanded) and supply France.
That's the case of Australia or Canada, which are not working at full capacity of extraction
Great video.
But it's based on the premise that nuclear fission always means U-235. There's another option - the Thorium fuel cycle, as used by Gen 4 reactors like LFTR. Thorium is basically everywhere on Earth, so nobody could hold the world to ransom.
And of course nuclear fusion is 20 years away. Has been for decades.
Sadly the thorium based fission reactors are only functioning in laboratories.
It will take decades to upscale the tech from a laboratory science reactor to a profitable industrial scale.
Thorium has been a”promising technology for decades” and it never grew up to be a real technology. Current interest is mostly media hype. Truth is molten salt reactors were tried in USA decades ago and they were abandoned.
@@obelic71the Russians already biult and use reactors that can use consumed neaclear fuel
@@اسكندرفكار I think you mean breeder reactors, those use spent fuel rods.
They seperate the higher and heavier enriched fissle uranium isotopes and fission contamination from the fuel rods to make new pellets for fuel rods.
Those already exist since the first nuclear reactors and weapons.
I ment molten salt reactors were you can ad Uranium pellets like shoveling coal in a furnace.
You dont need to chance the fissile material in those reactors just ad new.
France don't produce uranium and the last time I checked niger and many other west African countries are joining Russian side to increase their uranium price for france
Us mining produces relatively large quantities of uranium as a byproduct of operations. with a pen stroke much of this could find itself on the market instead of reburied. it's also worth noting much if this includes other rare Earths, steps have been taken in this direction but more could be done.
I'm Australian. We've got tons of Uranium. We just don't like mining it. Walk around Arnhem Land long enough, you'll glow in the dark.
Our first Uranium customers were India and Pakistan. They used it to make enough Nuclear Weapons to wipe out humanity. Kind of put us off mining the crap.
why are you scared australians are not in humanity
As a European Australia and Canada popped into my mind. Bye, Bye Russia!
@@pjhgerlach
Kazakhstan is the biggest proudocer of uranium and they are a Russian ally not to mention the use unexplored uranium reserves in the Siberian weldernis .....and also its not about uranium ore
@@اسكندرفكار Australia has the largest deposits of uranium in the world. Russia could become a loser on the nuclear market if we want.
France don't produce uranium and the last time I checked niger and many other west African countries are joining Russian side to increase their uranium price for france
“Europe is going back to nuclear”
How the turn tables.
Please wash your teeth guys 🪥
If we develop 4th gen reactors we will be able to use the uranium we already have
Yes that's the future 😊 couldn't agree more.
Thermal reactors:
Very-high-temperature reactor (VHTR)
Molten-salt reactor (MSR)
Supercritical-water-cooled reactor (SCWR)
Fast reactors:
Gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR)
Sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR)
Lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR)
France don't produce uranium and the last time I checked niger and many other west African countries are joining Russian side to increase their uranium price for france
Technically possible but too expensive
@@senefelder that depends on the supply lines, regulations and knowledge how to build them. building reactors today are expensive because we lack them
I hope it'll work out for France. And Deu will re-nuclearize. Nuclear power is grteen. Sure, not renewable, but still good. Thorium could be another step forward.
‘Renewables ‘ aren’t really renewable, let alone green. They’re re-buildable, for now, CO2 generating concrete and all, but the costs of mining and delivering the minerals required for the next generation will be prohibitive; this however is somewhat insignificant, given their abysmal EROEI, ask Simon Micheaux and or Mark P Mills about the mining aspects/realities faced, and Lars Schernikau about the Economics of ‘renewables’ vs eg Gen 4 nuclear. Makes ‘renewables’ look like a really dumb and expensive mistake. Unconvinced? - Ask the Germans…..
Where they going to get tge buclear fuel from other countries france empire needs to die
@@freeforester1717 I tried asking the Germans but their power was out . (No wind and no sun)
@@daniellarson3068 Your name vil go on ze list….
@@daniellarson3068
rosatom is already far more advanced in there reactors than France and offer more faverble devolping terms......so they will come on top in the future neaclear world
Wishful thinking. Disinformation.
We dont neet france in Afrika und we do everything france out of Afrika
Was this video rushed into production? The content was amazing as always but most of the visuals were in no way related to what was being said, while talking about fuel enrichment the visuals showed heavy industry, there was a good bit of ITER in a video on nuclear fission, and Africa while talking about Mongolia!
Really France is a dark horse when it comes to nuclear program.
Another non mentioned factor is that France currently holds uranium reserves for about 50 years of its national consumption. So there is no risk of a lack of material, the logistics just have to be adjusted.
Lol its impossible to hold that much uranium without it being a serious hazard. They just mentioned at the start of the coup in Niger that they only have two yrs worth of reserves
Another anti-Russian video, that tells you that everything is as usual at VisualPolitik office
the first anti-russian country is currently Russia itself
You don’t have good intelligence or information regarding France and Mongolia. Let’s just say that it is not going to be as you anticipate.
czech republic is not central europe anymore?
Its pronounced as "HU-N-TAH" not "Joo-un-tah". Its Spanish, get it right.
In Portuguese it's really like June.
Plenty Uranium here in Australia..
Dig faster
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France just lost bits uranium supply. What are you talking about
NU-CLE-AR. FFS.
"D'OH!"
Homer Simpson
Nu-clee-er. FFS
NU-CLEEEEEEEE-AR. FFS
Can't even pronounce Junta right 😂
A military "June-tah" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@inesisright! I love Homer! Lol “it’s pronounced Nuke-u-lur”! 😂
France will only be able to succeed if Germany and its lobbies do not do everything to make it fail because the Germans have spent tens of billions in renewable energies over the past decade and they need to export their surpluses at all costs.
And this can only be done at the expense of the French nuclear production which supplies a significant part of the dispatchable electricity in the European grid.
After the arms industry (EXPORT) France will attack the Russian nuclear industry, to take revenge for the war against the French nuclear industry, launched decades ago by the Germans (supported and paid for by the Russians). to sell their gas in Europe).
Renewables will be so cheap nuclear won't stand a chance. In the U.S. solar with four hours of storage is cheaper than gas let alone nuclear. I expect that in around five years nuclear to be considered obsolete. Oil is expected to get obsolete by 2030.
I was living in Germany, and dating a German back in 2011... She got really pissed when I laughed at her for attending an anti Atomkraft rally... who laughing now? (The correct answer is no-one. :/)
Out of curiosity, can the team cover how the attempt at Fussion /Fission energy experiment is going in France. The international funded attempt.
Kind regards me
it's a international experience (so it will not be only french) and to sum up maybe in 20 years (fuck)
@@quentinp45
and Russia is one of its biggest contributers in technology and funds
Please put dates on the headlines!
Inner Mongolia needs to secede from China and go back to Mongolia. Yeah, I know... Good luck with that!
Diversification of energy sources is a requirement imposed by EU regulations. It is also main reason why Nord Stream 2 was never "certified".
Uranium enrichment can be lowered, along with burnups. This will allow France to create a stopgap solution, less enrichment and uranium needed today, more needed in a few years. However, this can be filled using MOX fuels.
Your anti-Russia propaganda is baffling and so biased. You lose perspective when it comes to Russia.
China has successfully commissioned SMR Linglong~1 to benefit mankind.
We can tell a lot more bad things about the West, but do we need to start every video talking about it?
Junta is pronounced as "Hoon-tah" FFS!
Not "June-tah"
In Portuguese it's really like June.
@@Sergio_Loureiro I know, the Portuguese get a pass
bullshits, look at your datas, they are hilirious
We already sign with Mongolia five day ago.
😂😂😂Nager 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
So that's why France is coming to my country Bangladesh. France want to find every country it can get it's hands on to get as much uranium as possible by using the least amount of work, by giving just what the country leader wants, for my country it's Frances's fighter jets
Ok for Rafale= some uranium please
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It definitely does lol! I have Nordvpn and can access French specific contents while living in Berlin
Great vid, thanks bro
France Pa-ra-si-tes in Africa!!
THERE ARE BIG DIFERENT BETWEEN Russia and France because of natural resources.Russia have unlimited natural resources so there is not competition between Russia and FRANCE IN THIS MARKET
Yes - France will succeed. Spent fuel can be reprocessed. Breeder reactors can be built to produce new fuel. There is about four times as much Thorium in the world than Uranium. This could either be used alone in reactors or blended with Uranium. There is no doubt that there are undeveloped ore bodies that could be mined. As more countries enter the nuclear power option, the economy of scale will probably reduce costs as the market will encourage new investment in more efficient means of production. As more countries produce nuclear energy, there will be a stronger incentive for new producers to enter this growing market.
Only Russia have working breeder reactor. France need years to complete with first small breeeders. So it`s likely to be 2050-2060 on first mass-scale production. Not so fast, huh ?
@@shkoddi Rome wasn't built in a day. The best things take time.
The graph in percentages for payments is a bullshit way of displaying the information. Who even thinks about it like that, seriously????
I don't understand why the video glosses over the fact that KZ U cost 2 (money) per amount while NE U cost .25 (money) per amount.
IDK about most of you but if I knew I could buy the same thing for 8X cheaper it would never become anything but my top supplier. I would definitely diversify but I would make sure they remain the ones delivering the most product since it would make me more profitable.
Idk in 2009 theire is 433 nucléar power plan in the world now 411. In France both Orano/EDF lose 10 to 20 billion a year (before invest). Eatch time France go by or build in nucléar sector in foreight country it cost billion of loss : USA, GB, Finland, China. The russian nuke industry didn't do better : they just stand because of oil profit spend in it.
You think 5.5% of the revenue mining rent is abusive? In Serbia, my country, the rent is 3% of the mining company's profit - yes, profit, not revenue. If you guys think abusive treatment of countries is reserved for Africa, you're sorely mistaken.
We do not need uranium for nuclear power, we can use Thorium. There is 3 times more Thorium than Uranium, enough to last 40,000yrs. Old nuclear power stations may need Uranium for another 50yrs. But there are so many options for nuclear power and the nuclear power technology is mature and advancing, we just do not exploit green nuclear power because of old ideas from the 80's based anti-nuclear lobbies and green parties. We have the solution to solve climate change with nuclear power, we need to use more nuclear power as soon as we can.
Resource curse is when a country does benefit from a resource, at the cost of all other economic activity.
Don't forget the new HALEU (High Assay Low Enriched Uranium) method that makes the uranium fuel more efficient and means that less uranium is needed.
Thorium
The more I hear about the energy markets, the more I understand how stupid western governments are. How can these people go to the best schools in the work and still not see the errors of there deals with unfriendly states?
And using videos from the construction of ITER reactor is not appropriate when talking about enrichment and fission reactors.
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FRANCE if was getting uranium at fair prices then it would not have been so much worried about leaving NIGER but it was getting it for pennies, almost free so it is in panic mode...with taking 50% of african colonies foreign reserve too which is slowly slowly going away from france..
But ITER doesn't use uranium. 😅
Dinosaur juice 😂❤
Soon they will be left without that juice that they hate, and then they'll have to be adults again.
Nee-zher!
it can try but it needs to secure the supply for uranium and rusia will change regimes in africa with very much ease and cut france from uranium there so there is left only to buy from australia but australia does not want to process uranium
Thumbs down for mispronouncing "Junta"
ruzzia's arsenal is depotentiated in every way, shape, form and size.
Lets replace a criminal state owned company by another criminal compony owned by a criminal state.....yay....the only deffrence is that they target deffrent victims😊
Hahahaha
Visual politk should be called visual propoganda.
Dudes, this episode is sooo heavily SPONSORED 😳
they need more reactors, which can use natural uranium. Those reactors are in Canada.
france will never be able to replace russia when it come to the nuclear energy!
16:15 or one could use tunable lasers to enrich the uranium. It could be done in a garage I hear.
Without resources France is no march for Russia
I think U.S. needs to give Russia back Alaska
Very interesting. Was wondering what was happening with all of this!
France Will chicken out
Newkiller
USA and Canada not only have theit own uranium supplies but the USA has a centrifugal enrichment plant. Its been in operation for a number of years but not much information is known about it. There seems to have always been a vale of silence surrounding its use and operation.
Then it's for military prepuce
one side but great video
Thanks l love a good laugh
A lot of Siemens 😅
This is what you would call, a coverup video, 5.5% tax? really? why wont you say the actual prices that one company would sell the ore to compare with actual global markets? oh that's why.
A coverup video.
Also... barely 20% is barely 20% of your electric network not functioning, but i'm sure this video says that it's no big deal :p
What is the cover up? It’s no secret France barely pays Niger anything, and ORANO (formerly AREVA) has tons of EU tax breaks and special treatment. Niger is a machine that prints free money for France.
@@THEROOT1111That would only be true if France didn't have plenty of reserve, plenty of business opportunities with allies and neutral countries for more, AND (something that is often not mentioned) plenty of Uranium on its OWN territory, that they're keeping for strategic value.
So no matter what Russia does in Africa, they CANNOT put France in a deficit of uranium, in what they require for their own need. Only in deficit of how much they intended to sell to others, as this video mentions.
@@zefyrisd69keep dreaming
@@JohnJones-k9d So err... I'm dreaming what exactly? Everything I said is publicly available so who is dreaming Here? the ones that would deny reality to push their agendas and theories, or the ones pointing out that those theories cannot be because the reality is different from their day dream lol?
ALOT OF SIEMMENS
Fast breeder reactor
This is interesting.
Dream on.
France does not have the capacity to build out reactors for everyone who needs them.
+ don't have the money for it's own actually.
Oh my, Junta?!! like in june? thats unbelievable
In Portuguese it's really like June.
Why oh why can't my nation of Australia whom is rich in uranium change it's policy and utilise these power plants for base load power to cover our current and future needs. Im sure that it can be recycled to the point of minimal storage .
Because with existing tech for power generation and power storage, in Australia renewables are cheaper, faster to set up, produce less toxic waste and risk to workers in production, produce less toxic waste in power generation, make less toxic and unrecyclable waste at end-of-life, and do not leave hazardous radiation sources to be guarded for millennia.
No, no "minimal storage" nuclear power waste system has yet been demonstrated.
When a clean "cradle to grave" nuclear power cycle is demonstrated, including protection of the environment and people around the mines and wastetorage, uranium could ethically be supplied to placeswith less renewable power. Uranium being not renewable, Australia should save it for those who have legitimate need - and investigate exporting chemically-stored excess renewable energy (which removes atmospheric greenhouse gases) more than exporting non-renewables.
I think it's because Australia has a lot of hard working coal miners.
Russia has very competitive price edge on nuclear reactor well as nuclear fuel (ore and enrichment)
Russian reactor Rosatom VVER-1200 (PWR type) is about 1/3-1/5 cost of Western nuclear reactor of similar capacity. (as low as 1,200-2,000 USD per kW capacity)
No wonder Russia would have dominated and monopolized world nuclear industry unless political reason.
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusketthat seems more a recurrent idea than fact. No VVER disaster ever happened.
@@mariodzunigayeah not like Russia had a famous reactor meltdown or something.....
@@horstnietzsche1923 I thought the difference between an RBMK and a VVER reactor was evident. BTW, Fukushima was designed by GE. But, it's different.
@@horstnietzsche1923has Russia had a famous nuclear meltdown? Do you mean the Chernobyl incident? But Chernobyl was and is still in Ukraine.
@@horstnietzsche1923
didn't the American made reactor in Japan melt in 2011
Go on solar and energy storage batteries ..
with of course reduced mining activity, abundant non-strategic resources, and all this being built and deployed with 100% non-fossil energy, right?
Hehe sea mans 😂
Go hydrogen and say tatas to Saudis and Russia
dont be silly, hydrogen isnt an energy source, its a storage medium. You need a lot more energy to make hydrogen than you get out of it, if you want it carbon free then thats a lot more uranium. Plus france doesnt have the spare electrical capacity for it anyways.
maybe one day but not for a decade at least if ever
@@instanoodles yer. I have read the research and believe otherwise on that. It's brilliant for storage and will be cheaper than batteries in the future.
But it will still be a viable option as it mean more localised energy/fuel and less import demand
@@instanoodles the cost of relying on outside energy supplies will outweigh localised production
Solar and wind really need to keep growing exponentially every year because this didn't really inspire confidence in long term uranium fuel supply. USA and Australia and other friendly countries really need to step up their game with uranium fuel supply.
But maybe thorium can help out with this issue.
Venezuela has thorium but they will not be able to sell it to Europe only for China and Russia
"If you’re watching this from Germany". That hit home. We do have a bit of a strange relationship with nuclear energy.
A relationship like "Making mistakes is human, but with nuclear power, the consequences of human mistakes can be fatal and long-lasting."
@@ettoreatalan8303better than coal at least
@@اسكندرفكار Which areas are no longer habitable because of a damaged coal-fired power plant?
@@ettoreatalan8303
cliamet change killing millions of ppl while neaclear accidents killed directly 2_15 ppl at the most of them
@@ettoreatalan8303 The thing with coal is it is a lot deadlier than people think. We just ignore the deaths that come from air pollution. Because it's not deadly immediately it's slow poisoning. But if you calculate it down to the KwH nuclear is a lot safer than coal.
I live near a coal plant and there used to be a nuclear plant nearby. There is also a storage for nuclear waste near where I live. I would liked it a lot more if they would have kept the nuclear power plant running and would have shut down the coal plant.
Wind is a little unreliable, but at least it's not buried in a war torn country.
And if drought threatens the cooling of the reactors...
Maybe nuclear isn't so reliable either.
Another imminent Western failure 😢
Nah. The French sources of cheap uranium are gone now that most of west Africa is finally becoming truly independent.
"indépendent" u mean a russian colony.
go go France!
Pootin would mess up a nuclear power station and cause a massive explosion.
Special Nuclear Processing Operation.
Blame it on “foreign agents”.
@@CMY187
the only big Russian neaclear accident happened in Soviet era because the workers were Ukrainians in Ukraine 😂
Maîak disaster + St Petersbourg power plan semi- meltdown was in Russia. The land contaminated in russia non suitable for human is almost te switzerland size. the average life time in russia is 62 for the man onely : 58.@@اسكندرفكار
First!! 1 minute in
Nice
It's rather the other way around. France is losing its foothold in the Sahel (the source of uranium), while most future NPPs (primariliy those in developing nations) will be Russian built. Plus, France has lost the nuclear know-how by now, its last nuclear unit was commissioned in 1990s.
Are you kidding me?? Russian or chinese npp are nowhere near as good as european ones. In the next 20 years there will be a level 7 ACCIDENT in a russian/chinese power plant, 100%.
Loosing their foothold in the Sahel, but building a new one in Central Asia. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are now major suppliers of France. Also, they recently invested 51 billions euros in building new powerplants in France.
Also, the last powerplant built by French nuclear firm Orano was inaugurated in...2022 in Finland. With about 7 years of delay, true, but still.
Except that we use fairly little amounts of uranium from the Sahel, and that nobody in their right mind would continue to mine uranium in Niger while we can in Canada or Kazakhstan? As well as some interesting local potential mines if we ever decide to launch them. It's important to, you know, watch the video before you comment?
Especially when the core of the video is about the enrichment capacities of the country, which you don't talk about.
Oh, and finally, inventing facts is rarely a positiv move. Flamanville or Taishan in China seems non existent for you... As well as the 6 further pland that India has just commissioned for Jaitapur. Same for the slight market advantages we have over Russia in Europe and eastern europe (historical customers of Russia), such as... not being Russia.
Which NPP were commisioned to Russia recently outside one in Egypt, and another in Bangladesh? Great customers btw, with one certainly not on the verge of bankruptcy...
You think countries will trust Russia, a country that just tried to blackmail most of Europe with its gas, with their energy security?
@@alioshax7797both kazakhstan and uzbekistan are russia-china allies anyway. So, yes, france is definitely loosing its nuclear foothold
An Australian company Silex has invented and patented in both Australia and USA the third generation of uranium enrichment method; LASER ENRICHMENT. Its ASX share price will go gangbusters
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Question, where will France get uranium