In 2020, according to Euratom data, French uranium imports came mainly from three countries: Niger (35%), Kazakhstan (29%) and Uzbekistan (26%). olrat / stock.adobe.com
THERE VERIFICATION – Natural uranium imported at 43% from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan – two satellite countries of Moscow -, increase in imports of Russian enriched uranium… The NGO estimates that “France is bound hand and foot to Russia”. What about?
On the eve of Monday’s examination by the National Assembly of the nuclear acceleration bill, Greenpeace wants to (re) shed light on the supposed “holdfrom Russia on French nuclear power, in the context of the war in Ukraine. In a long report published on Saturday, the NGO points out, on the basis of public data from customs, publications of companies or public organizations, “the links between the French nuclear industry and the Russian nuclear company Rosatom, which demonstrates that France is bound hand and foot to Russia“. But can we really go so far as to speak of addiction?
To support its point, Greenpeace stresses in particular that “nearly half of the natural uranium imported into France came from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan», 43% exactly. And adds:Almost all of the natural uranium from Kazakhstan, and a considerable part of that from Uzbekistan, passes through the hands of (the Russian nuclear monopoly…
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