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Uranium is common, it's just not profitable to mine at current prices. But fuel costs are just a few percentage points of the total.

If there were a shortage, it's no problem to pay even 5x more. Then you'll see suppliers pop up everywhere.

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It's a theory that makes sense, but in reality e.g. during the crisis in 2022, one of the solutions 6 months in was to fly in welders from the US. Which might be a point that a solution can be found in a crisis, except the Edf had lost billions up to that point, after countless delays, finishing the year over 15 billion in the red. Overall, that industry has been incapable of delivering anything in a reasonable timeframe for decades now, especially in France.

So I would not take theories for granted, even if they make sense.

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