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Has Rosatom Become a Threat to Global Security - Using More Geopolitical Power than most Governments Realize?

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Rosatom Hanhikivi 1 nuclear power plant construction site in PyhÀjoki, Finland 2015   JPS Has Rosatom Become a Powerful Geopolitics Nuclear Weapon for Russia, Largely Underestimated by the Western Democracies? The world needs now very quick transition to clean energy. Building nuclear reactors delays this process heavily. For example the planning & construction time of Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor seems to be at least 20 years from 2002 - when Finnish parliament accepted the plan - to 2022 which is the last estimate of the beginning of the commercial power generation of the plant.  The median constructing time of nuclear reactors have been recently about 10 years + a few years licencing process according to World Nuclear Report 2020   https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/pdf/wnisr2020-v2_lr.pdf .  Only renewable energy based solutions are scalable and fast enough to build to address the climate crisis.  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-nuclearpower-idUSKBN1W909J There is

The New Sec Deal

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