This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchelor.

Nuclear energy.

The nuclear energy story in the United States has been mixed to non-transparent for many decades since Swayma Island and a general understanding that there were other sources of energy.

No longer.

I hear it routinely talked about by major organizations in the United States. I mean Microsoft. I mean meta. I mean

Google. They're all looking at nuclear energy as a source of electricity for the needs of the data

centers they're building in the transformation of our culture

into the digital universe of artificial intelligence and beyond.

Therefore, it's back in the story.

The reason this is important is because nuclear energy depends on uranium ore.

There's a fundamental here that must be secured. These war years with Russia

is also true that Ross Adam, which is the Russian Federation's nuclear energy administration,

is the one source of nuclear ore that the U.S. and its allies continue to buy, despite all the sanctions

regime on oil and coal and natural gas. Russ Adam is universally needed. But where does

Russ Adam get its nuclear energy? Where does all of Asia get its nuclear energy from ore? And where's

the ore?

I welcome my colleague, Svante Cornell.

He is research director of the American Foreign Policy Council's Central Asia Caucus's Institute.

There is a clue, writing most recently at Rear Clear Energy,

about the source of that uranium ore, the good stuff and the less good stuff.

Svante, it's wonderful. I put all that chain of supply together because we're back to

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