#RUSSIA: Sanction beating uranium ore via China. Andrea Stricker, FDD
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:42.3 | ore has been a major source of income for the Kremlin |
| 0:46.8 | for many years prior to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine and since then Ross Adams sells it also administers it around |
| 0:57.3 | the world. You will recall this is a business of uranium ore for nuclear reactors. It has other uses but mostly we're |
| 1:05.8 | focusing on energy now, a new subject that is very popular because the |
| 1:11.3 | expectation of electricity demand will only climb in the 21st century and renewables |
| 1:18.1 | while adequate do not always shine and do not always wind blow. So what you need is backup to maintain the system. |
| 1:26.8 | It can be fossil fuel, but one desirable possibility is nuclear. I understand it's controversial, but when Microsoft moved |
| 1:35.3 | on Three Mile Island everybody started looking around for a new plant they too can |
| 1:39.9 | access especially to build those data centers. All of this is background for a revelation I have |
| 1:46.2 | from Andrea Stricker and her colleague Anthony Virgero |
| 1:48.9 | at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. |
| 1:51.6 | That is about Russian or somehow finding its way to the |
| 1:56.1 | United States but not straightforwardly because of sanctions. Andrea a very |
| 2:01.0 | good evening to you Russ Adam makes money for the Kremlin. |
| 2:04.0 | There are only several things the Kremlin's ever been able to good at, |
| 2:07.0 | selling energy, selling weapons, and selling its atomic power plants, |
| 2:12.0 | and the ore to feed them. |
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