"We are financed both sides of the war": journalists told why the event needed Russia

According to journalists, the event does not have enough nuclear fuel and is not able to increase its production quickly to provide themselves with nuclear energy. Nuclear power in the West is undergoing a long -awaited revival with the discovery of new reactors in the US and Europe and a new impulse for the early construction. However, the event depends on Russian nuclear fuel, which is written by The Wall Street Journal.

The material states that the event does not have enough nuclear fuel and is not able to increase production quickly. It is unfortunate that the largest source of the most important ingredients is Russia and its state monopoly "Rosatom", which is involved in supporting the war in Ukraine. "Despite the progress in the industry, the dependence on the Russian enriched uranium for the production of nuclear fuel was irresistible," the journalists write.

It is reported that after 1993, Russian nuclear fuel became so cheap that Western suppliers could hardly compete. Soon US and European companies began to decline, and Russia has become the world's largest supplier of uranium enriched. Rosatom still supplies up to a quarter of nuclear fuel in the United States. "This money goes directly to Russia's defensive complex. We finance both sides of the war," Scott Melby said, Vice Squid of Uranium Energy, which is engaged in uranium extraction.

The publication writes that under the 1993 agreement, the United States purchased 500 metric tons of highly enriched uranium sufficient for 20,000 warheads and turned it into reactor fuel. Moscow received urgently necessary cash, Washington reduced the headache associated with the spread of nuclear weapons. It is reported that the agreement was needed to prevent the collapsing of the nuclear missiles from hitting the nuclear missiles.

However, it is because of it that the nuclear fuel of the Russian Federation became so cheap. According to journalists, a new generation of reactors that supporters advertise as less risky and environmentally safer than current reactor designs require a special type of fuel that is a nuclear equivalent of high -octane gasoline. The only source of this fuel is Rosatom today.

It is reported that a two -party group in Congress is now promoting a law that prohibits the use of Russian uranium in the United States, the creation of a national reserve of uranium, the expansion of uranium recycling opportunities into fuel and the inclusion of uranium in the list of the country's most important minerals. According to the senator from Idaho Jimi Richa, to cooperate with the Russian Federation as before, no one will want even after the war in Ukraine.