Won’t supply of Australian uranium free-up China’s own uranium for military use?
No. Uranium is not a scarce commodity—every country has uranium; if cost is no object it can even be recovered from seawater. All NWS have sufficient uranium for their military programs. The choice for a NWS is not, will it use uranium for weapons or for electricity, but rather, will it generate baseload electricity with nuclear, or coal, or gas, or hydro? Open sources suggest that China ceased production of fissile material for nuclear weapon some years ago.
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