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  • German Galushchenko: U.S. decision to ban russian uranium imports is a decisive step towards sanctions against rosatom
    Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, posted 01 May 2024 11:53

    The U.S. Senate has supported a law banning the import of enriched uranium from russia. The document has been sent for President Joe Biden’s signature.

    “This is a historic decision, not only for such a major nuclear power as the United States, which will accelerate the development of the American uranium industry. This is a signal to the entire civilised world that further cooperation in the nuclear and uranium industries with a terrorist country that has put the entire world under a nuclear threat is impossible.

    And this is another decisive step towards sanctions against rosatom, which is actually financing the war against Ukraine,” Minister of Energy of Ukraine German Galushchenko wrote on his Facebook page.

    The head of the Energy Ministry reminded that this was exactly what he said in his statement, which was read out in March in the U.S. Congress during a hearing: “the russians are manipulating their influence in the industry to keep other countries dependent.”

    German Galushchenko has repeatedly discussed the need to introduce solutions that will bring the world closer to sanctions against russia in this area with U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, members of the U.S. Congress and senators.

    “I am confident that the decision to ban uranium imports will be the beginning of further refusal to cooperate with a terrorist country that has no right to sell civilised technologies, the proceeds of which are used for a barbaric war against Ukrainian civilians,” the Minister added.

    He reminded that Ukraine was also continuing its efforts to abandon russian nuclear technology. Ukraine has completely abandoned russian nuclear fuel and spare parts. Together with American partners, Ukrainian experts have developed a new type of fuel for VVER 440 reactors, a spent fuel storage facility has been built and is in use, work is underway to create production facilities for the manufacture of fuel components, and construction of new nuclear units is underway.