America's Nuclear Dependency Crisis
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0:32 kept out of 6:45Nuclear energy powers a fifth of America, but the United States has lost domestic control over the uranium enrichment that fuels its electrical grid.
- 1. Exposes the sharp decline of domestic uranium enrichment in the United States and the strategic vulnerability of relying on foreign supply.
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Nuclear energy powers nearly one-fifth of America but the fuel behind those reactors depends on a process called Uranium Enrichment and America has almost completely lost control of it At our peak the United States performed more than 90% of the world's Uranium Enrichment. Today it's less than 1%. Russia now controls roughly 44% of the global market. Think about that. One of America's biggest adversaries controls a major part of the fuel supply behind our electrical grid.
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