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France is still trading uranium with Russia, nearly four years after Ukraine invasion (www.lemonde.fr)

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Since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian energy sector has been broadly targeted by 19 rounds of European sanctions. Coal, oil and gas have all been affected. However, the nuclear industry has been completely spared and remains the exception.

In Brussels, discussions about potential sanctions, initially planned for June 2025, were postponed. At a time when France is described as one of the main countries opposing a full ban on Russian nuclear deliveries, a report published on Wednesday, January 28, by the anti-nuclear NGO Greenpeace once again underscored that the trading of uranium, the fuel for nuclear power plants, continues between Paris and Moscow, shrouded in opacity.

The links between France and Russia on this issue have been extensively documented in recent years. Ships from Saint Petersburg or Ust-Luga, on the Russian Baltic coast, regularly continue to dock at the Port of Dunkerque, northern France, carrying containers filled with uranium in various forms. While France does not import natural uranium mined in Russia itself, the latest customs data analyzed by Greenpeace showed that between 2022 and September 2025, nearly half of these raw material imports came from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, two former Soviet republics.

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 4 points 3 hours ago

EU so far really failed on energy, mostly thanks to Germany that shat the bed completely. Their corrupt politicians convinced everyone that cheap gas from Russia is the best way to grow the economy and steered the energy policy of the entire block in the wrong direction for decades. Now Gerhard Schröder is happily working for Gazprom while 2 million people died in Ukraine because of his failures (perfect candidate for nobel peace prize). They also got manipulated by Green Peace (probably also funded by Russia) into closing their nuclear power plants, like total idiots. Now EU is split between countries trying to transition into sustainable energy (which is expensive and difficult to do, just look at Spain and their failing infrastructure) and countries opposing it for political reasons (fuck you Poland and Hungary). In the meantime they changed their main source of gas from Russia to USA which means that now another openly hostile country can threaten them with high energy prices. It would be nice for politicians to finally wake up but I'm not really counting on it.