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2023-12-15 Home Front: Politix
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US Congress Votes to Ban Imports of Russian Nuclear Fuel - Starting in January 2028
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[JohnHelmer] US Congressmen have adopted the unusual procedure of approving by voice vote – no tally — a ban on imports of Russian uranium to fuel US nuclear reactors. Hidden from the record are the Congressmen who insisted on including a loophole, Section 2, allowing a waiver of the law until January 2028 to keep the lightbulbs in their districts from blacking out.
The Pentagon also insisted on a loophole, Section 3A, allowing a waiver so that the manufacture of depleted uranium munitions for the Israeli, Ukrainian, and US armies, as well as nuclear warheads for tactical and strategic missiles aimed at Russia, will not be cut off from their Russian import source.
One-fifth of the US electricity supply is dependent on the special enrichment quality of imported Russian uranium, although the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) is reporting that as of June 2023, just 12% of imported enriched uranium fuel in total comes from Russia; 25% from Kazakhstan, where Russian companies hold a substantial stake; and 27% from Canada.
In the first six months of last year, following the start of the Special Military Operation, US importers more than doubled their purchases of enriched uranium fuel from Rosatom, the state corporation which has not been sanctioned by the US, despite appeals from Kiev and George Soros. Almost $700 million was paid for the imports.
In 2022 the price of the Russian imports was $22.76 per pound. This was the lowest priced import of all US import sources — 62% below the Australian uranium delivery price; 54% below the Canadian price; 33% below the Kazakh price. Rosatom’s delivery quote to the US has been falling steadily; it’s down 39% since 2018.
| John Helmer (born 1946) is an Australian-born journalist and foreign correspondent based in Moscow. |
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