Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Megatons to Megawatts Program" in English language version.
U.S. companies collectively sent almost $1 billion last year to Rosatom, according to a recent analysis from Darya Dolzikova at the Royal United Services Institute in London. ... The only source of that fuel today is Rosatom. "We need fuel to turn our reactor on," said Jeff Navin, director of external affairs at TerraPower, the Gates-backed company that plans to build its first reactor in Wyoming. He said the U.S. is paying the price for its yearslong unwillingness to build a domestic supply chain for nuclear fuel. ... Urenco in the 1990s began planning what was to be the first new uranium-enrichment plant in the U.S. in decades. But because of the Megatons deal, "the business case for that project was utterly destroyed," he said. Today that history "absolutely" informs the U.S. nuclear industry's thinking and makes corporate boards reluctant to invest the necessary billions, he added.