• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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    7 days ago

    Akchually, Czechoslovakia used to export uranium to the USSR because it had the greatest, most accessible reserves of the Eastern Bloc.

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        6 days ago

        The Czech reserves (which are still more than US’s) were probably just more readily available or easier to purify.

        Anyway, I’d prefer this list because your chart is EU supply only.

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          6 days ago

          Interesting, but you just have to keep in mind the definition of reserve, where profitability is part of the calculation. Also reserve does not tell much about extraction.

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      6 days ago

      East Germany, the GDR, was the 4th largest producer of uranium ore in the world. The uranium was mined in the Soviet run Wismuth (later Soviet-German) facilities on the German side of the Ore Mountains.