US nuclear industry asks White House to remove Russian uranium from sanctions

The American nuclear industry can "lay down" in the event of a cessation of Russian uranium supplies. A number of US companies involved in this industry are trying to put pressure on the White House to get uranium out of sanctions. The American media write about it.

Washington plans to introduce another package of sanctions due to the operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, where uranium supplies may end up. In this case, the nuclear industry, which is heavily dependent on Russian cheap uranium, will suffer the most. The thing is that the United States has not been mining uranium on its own for quite a long time, preferring to buy it, primarily from Russia.

American companies involved in this industry have repeatedly declared their intentions and ability to mine uranium themselves, but none of them have been able to do so. Against this background, the sanctions that are intended to be introduced will hit American nuclear scientists hard, leaving them without raw materials.

According to the press, citing anonymous sources, the companies are now trying to force the White House to withdraw uranium from the imposed restrictions. In particular, the electric power companies of the nuclear industry Duke Energy Corp and Exelon Corp are engaged in this.

The US National Energy Institute (NEI), which unites energy companies in the nuclear industry, said that it was necessary to expand the uranium market, look for new suppliers, etc., but admitted that the industry would not last long without Russian uranium. At the same time, several companies once again expressed their readiness to independently begin the extraction of strategic raw materials.

The HEU-LEU (highly enriched uranium - low enriched uranium) agreement was concluded between the United States and Russia on February 18, 1993. The agreement, and then the signed contract, provide for the irreversible processing of at least 500 tons of Russian weapons-grade uranium into low-enriched uranium for American nuclear power plants.

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[Victor_B]

The American nuclear industry can "lay down" in the event of a cessation of Russian uranium supplies. A number of US companies involved in this industry are trying to put pressure on the White House to get uranium out of sanctions.

What about us?

[Machito]

Fuck them, not uranium. Uranium is needed for our nuclear power plants and nuclear charges against eurofascists.
Let them drown their nuclear power plants with dung.

[Victor_B]

Quote: Bearded

and nuclear charges

Uranium 235 is not used.
At all!

[Bratkov Oleg]

And what is put in the reactors that produce plutonium? This 235 is being laid down, it is irradiated with neutrons, and becomes different.

[Victor_B]

Quote: Bratkov Oleg

And what is put in the reactors that produce plutonium? This 235 is being laid down, it is irradiated with neutrons, and becomes different.

Plutonium is obtained by irradiating uranium-238(!) with neutrons.
But neutrons fly out of U-235 or from the same Pu-239.

[Bratkov Oleg]

Yes, I am not a nuclear scientist. Screwed up with atomic mass.

[IFFI from the EU]

Since the sanctions war has begun, why not take our "partners" by the testicles with an iron grip? With the help of this technique, you can achieve for yourself a very big indulgence.

[Machito]

Quote: IFFI from the EU

Since the sanctions war has begun, why not take our "partners" by the testicles with an iron grip? With the help of this technique, you can achieve for yourself a very big indulgence.

Take the testicles? What perversions? Take and cut.

[IFFI from the EU]

Cutting off is a one-time action, and squeezing and letting go is educational, and after all, we are not sadists.

[astepanov]

It is not at all clear from the article what this is about. The word "mining" flashes here and there - and it seems that we are talking about raw uranium, metal, or U3O8, or hexafluoride for subsequent enrichment. But at the end, the HEU-LEU agreement is mentioned for the supply of low-enriched uranium. In general, porridge.
I must say that the American mining industry is very good, there are also deposits. It is not difficult to buy uranium, for example, in Africa or Australia - there it is higher than the roof, unlike Russia. But here's the problem: enrichment technologies in Russia are much better, and most importantly, cheaper than anywhere else. And the gap in this is calculated in years, if not decades. So, apparently, we are talking about enriched uranium. Shut off oxygen to the bastards, let them switch to coal power plants, to the evil of Greta Tumberg. Yes, and titanium, zirconium - our trump cards are no worse than uranium. strategic metals.

[CAT BAIYUN]

But here's the problem: enrichment technologies in Russia are much better, and most importantly, cheaper than anywhere else.

Better and cheaper, yes. In terms of the cost of the SWU (units of separation work), Russia can put anyone in the belt. And America..... After AOK (the American enrichment company) was privatized and subsequently it went bankrupt, America is absent from the uranium enrichment market. From the word at all. Yes, and they had enrichment on "grids" - this is the technology of the middle of the last century ... Now they don't even have that ... So yes ... This is a critical issue for them .... Very. The problem of waste storage is more critical. But that's a completely different story.

[DymOk_v_dYmke]

It is high time to stop deliveries of striped uranium for reasons of safety of the operation of Ukrainian nuclear power plants. Let them buy our fuel rods for the use of which nuclear power plants were developed.

[CAT BAIYUN]

It is high time to stop deliveries of striped uranium for reasons of safety of the operation of Ukrainian nuclear power plants

After the Russian troops took control of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, the Zaporizhzhya nuclear scientists said that they made statements about the state of the nuclear power plant under pressure from their superiors and under threat. And in the near future they will roll out a statement (or official report) providing figures on the number of incidents with Westinghouse fuel assemblies. How many of them accumulated there for the number of fuel sessions (or cycles from replacement to replacement) that was, it's hard to say. But the statistics are going to be VERY distasteful for Westinhouse. VERY. And this is only suspected on the basis of statements by Czech nuclear scientists (yes, yes ... Dukovany) where there was already a sad experience with fuel assemblies of this Westinghouse miracle company. The Czechs abandoned the assemblies out of harm's way .... And the bosses in Ukroreikh .. already felt themselves in chocolate. I hope the situation will change. But at whose expense? TVELs are an expensive pleasure. The freebie for the supply of free fuel from the Russian Federation in exchange for Ukraine's nuclear-free status has already ended. However, like money in ukroreykha ...

[alekc75]

you can block it, but how do they pay for uranium ?? if the bucks are banned?

[Bratkov Oleg]

The second place in terms of uranium reserves belongs to Kazakhstan. The Asian country holds 11,81% of the world's fuel reserves, which is equal to 629000 tons of uranium.
In first place is Australia, 30% of world reserves

[Flooding]

well, I do not!
either all or nothing
with the United States, trade operations must be curtailed
like with Britain

[Kesha1980]

well, I do not!
either all or nothing
with the United States, trade operations must be curtailed
like with Britain

The Kremlin does not agree with you - today we will send British OneWeb satellites into orbit.

[Flooding]

Quote: Kesha1980

The Kremlin does not agree with you - today we will send British OneWeb satellites into orbit.

It is necessary to fulfill the obligations assumed.
Russia is not a pirate or a blackmailer.
Russia is a reliable business partner even during the anti-Bandera operation.

But for the future, it is necessary to develop a number of response measures for especially zealous instigators of the conflict.
And they should be tangible enough so that in the future any political elite of this or that country, unfriendly to Russia, thinks three times before taking hostile actions.

[Kesha1980]

Russia is not a pirate or a blackmailer.

And the Britons announced the impending confiscation of yachts, the mansions of our oligarchs. "Civilized" Europe).

[Flooding]

Quote: Kesha1980

the Britons announced the impending confiscation of yachts, the mansions of our oligarchs

yes
fresh legend, but hard to believe

[Alexander 3]

I am also in favor of sending British satellites to Britain by dry cargo ship. After all, our planes are not allowed to fly over Britain.

[Machito]

Quote: Kesha1980

well, I do not!
either all or nothing
with the United States, trade operations must be curtailed
like with Britain

The Kremlin does not agree with you - today we will send British OneWeb satellites into orbit.

Orbits are different.

[Maikcg]

We don't ship anymore.

[Kesha1980]

For now, we are not shipping. Although the fulfillment of Rogozin's conditions, in my opinion, is impossible. Pleases.

[DymOk_v_dYmke]

Quote: Flood

well, I do not!
either all or nothing

It was, passed. These are purely youthful options and alternatives.
In an adult way - paws need to be twisted where possible / succeeds and as much as possible / succeeds and not whine about the unfulfilled

[Flooding]

Quote: DymOk_v_dYmke

In an adult way - paws need to be twisted where possible / succeeds and as much as possible / succeeds and not whine about the unfulfilled

and now you can explain what, to whom and how you will twist in an adult way?
And where exactly do you disagree with my youthful dreams?

[DymOk_v_dYmke]

Quote: Flood

and now you can explain what, to whom and how you will twist in an adult way?
And where exactly do you disagree with my youthful dreams?

Re-read "The Suffering of Young Werther", and you will understand what I'm talking about.
Hope I didn't offend.

[Flooding]

Quote: DymOk_v_dYmke

Hope I didn't offend

РЅРёРєР ° РєРёС… РSР ± РёРґ
with the same success you can send me to Tolstoy Leo Nikolaevich or Dostoevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich.

[Starover_Z]

The American nuclear industry can "lay down" in the event of a cessation of Russian uranium supplies. A number of US companies involved in this industry are trying to put pressure on the White House to get uranium out of sanctions.

Yeah, we play here, we don’t play here, we turn it over, then they wrapped the fish ...
But at the expense of this, you need to think and calculate - what to sell to the States, and what is NOT, in response to sanctions!

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Victor_B

What about us?

The salvation of drowning, the business of the drowning.

[Thrifty]

Gor-Chernomyrden agreement! Now you need to sell them uranium after the official recognition of the Crimea and Donbass, when Biden announces this live!

[Victor_B]

Quote: Thrifty

Agreement Gor-Chernomyrden!

... has long expired!
As a bonus of this agreement, Mathrasia has completely eliminated its uranium enrichment.
For the market decided that super-cheap uranium from Russia is more profitable.

[tralflot1832]

Trudeau in Canada is not going to personally load uranium into reactors in Canada with a shovel to save America?

[Victor_B]

Quote: tralflot1832

Trudeau in Canada is not going to personally load uranium into reactors in Canada with a shovel to save America?

Hell knows...
But uranium in Canada is like shit behind the bath!
Just don't enrich it!
Canadian reactors are heavy water and run on natural uranium.

[tralflot1832]

Yes, Canada was lucky with uranium, the first or second in the supply of enriched uranium to the United States, but they do not fill the need, from the word at all.

[Victor_B]

Quote: tralflot1832

in supplies enriched uranium

This is not a fact!

[tralflot1832]

I found it on the website of nuclear scientists, the annual share of US uranium consumed is equal to the annual share of uranium mined by Rosatom. And then there are processing formulas, for me this is a dark forest.

[seregatara1969]

We introduce stations ourselves, we cancel them ourselves! Driving as profitable!

[AUL]

And what prevents us from imposing sanctions on the supply of strategic raw materials to the states? Both uranium and titanium fit very well into this list!

[hector]

Quote from AUL

And what prevents us from imposing sanctions on the supply of strategic raw materials to the states? Both uranium and titanium fit very well into this list!

Irrational thirst for their currency and stubborn unwillingness to make the ruble the world currency.

[Repellent]

Quote: ettore

stubborn reluctance make the ruble the world currency

Hmm ... The sleep of reason gives birth to monsters (c)

[hector]

That's right, while the Russian authorities did everything not in favor of the ruble. You can continue to sleep happily on a dollar stash under your pillow.

[Repellent]

Quote: ettore

You can continue to sleep happily on a dollar stash under your pillow.

This is not for me, this is for Abramovich

Quote: ettore

while the Russian authorities did everything not in favor of the ruble

Agree. But in order to make the ruble a world currency, one desire will not be enough

[hector]

Agree. But in order to make the ruble a world currency, one desire will not be enough

Yes, you have to start all the same doing the job, otherwise it’s like in a joke, when a Jew asks God over and over again to win the lottery, God is tired and he says to him - Well, at least buy a lottery ticket.

[Repellent]

Quote: ettore

gotta start doing it anyway

So they started already ... now they are buying up (on the cheap. Against the backdrop of the "war" with Ukraine and the real economic war, these shares have dramatically fallen in price) shares of key Russian companies, owned by foreigners due to a misunderstanding. It's like an example.

[Piramidon]

Quote: seregatara1969

We introduce stations ourselves, we cancel them ourselves! Driving as profitable!

True gentlemen, however. The rules change on the fly.

[Pete mitchell]

Quote: Piramidon

True gentlemen, however...

like a classic there - we read here, we don’t read here, they wrapped fish here

[tralflot1832]

It's predictable, so stay tuned! Since 2014, this option has been discussed, after all, they were able to close the sky, although there were opinions against it! Now they are resetting the transportation of our oil by the tanker fleet to zero. You give us oil at $ 200.

[Vladimirets]

Here it is - an effective asymmetric response. Will we only have the courage to cut off these deliveries.

[Alex_Bora]

F. W. Y. them!!!

[sabakina]

I would rather suggest Bui of the Kostroma region. Moreover, there is an unbuilt nuclear power plant.

[vitvit123]

Well, it’s just some kind of zrada .. I remember here, I don’t remember here ..

[mark1]

They have their weapons-grade uranium up to ... and more, so let the smart-ass recycle it

[maxim1987]

thanks for the help

[Andobor]

Regarding nuclear technologies and materials, there are Russian sanctions.

[Wedmak]

No, no, no .... she died, she died like that. If they press us with sanctions, cut off ALL supplies of raw materials to them - uranium, nickel, titanium.
By the way, there is news that Severstal has already stopped deliveries. We must check.

[Paranoid50]

Quote: Wedmak

uranium, nickel, titanium.

The same palladium (and the Russian Federation owns about 50% of the world's reserves of this metal) will soon become a strategic material.

[AlexVas44]

Well, if the industry does not last long without Russian uranium, then, apparently, an exchange is needed. We to you, you to us!

[tralflot1832]

98 reactors in the USA. Enriched uranium market, 22% Kazakhstan and 11% Russia. It's funny, 100% of uranium mining and processing in Kazakhstan is Rosatom. uranium in the United States is degraded, and Hillary had a hand in this. Yes, and Rosatom made a fuss.

[Olkhovsky]

A number of US companies involved in this industry are trying to put pressure on the White House to get uranium out of sanctions. The American media write about it.

Here's the crap. Sanctions, so sanctions.

[rotmistr60]

Americans in their repertoire - we play here, we don't play here, here I wrapped fish. At the same time, tough sanctions are required from Europe, and those, as if under the gaze of a boa constrictor, themselves go to the fall of their economy. But that's their problem. Today, Europe has shown in full glory all its "principles" that it defends (in words), its "commitment to respect for human rights" (especially Russian), its terry Russophobia with open hatred. It will be very interesting to hear about our response beyond airspace closures. I hope that the illusions about the possibility of reaching an agreement with the West have finally disappeared.

[max702]

By the way, we are talking about enriched uranium for nuclear power plants .. The reason for the lack of technology for this in the United States is a very expensive product, in simple terms, the United States does not have gas centrifuges .. Don’t be fooled .. That's all you need to know about the technological superiority of the West ..
rs: To get acquainted with the topic to a minimum extent, watch Boris Martsinkevich's series of programs on YouTube ..

[-Paul-]

The market has decided. Why is it expensive to develop your own technology if you can buy it cheaply from the Russians.

[-Paul-]

However, this also applies to us. Because of this approach, we are quite strongly dependent and dependent on a number of goods.

[73bor]

In the USA, there have never been centrifuges; there was a gas diffusion enrichment technology that was complex and rather inefficient.

[-Paul-]

He writes about this, the Americans sort of undertook to develop new technologies, but they quickly abandoned it, it’s expensive, it’s easier to take ready-made uranium from the Russians.

[tralflot1832]

Well, do not belittle the power of the United States, they process as much as 7% of all their consumption. Modern nuclear processing technologies are too complicated for them.

[Million]

"Baldares" to them, not uranium.
Let them remove all sanctions, then we will think about uranium!

[73bor]

Wait, the contract seems to have ended like five years ago, was it really renewed?

[abrakadabre]

Here you go. There is something to pinch them painfully enough.

[evgen1221]

We are now waiting for Kazakhstan to strike a pose, like they are terribly independent and decide for themselves whether they will sell their uranium to the amers. Well, yes, but as they began to overthrow, so help the Russian Federation, there is no one else ...

[akropin]

Our uranium in our furnace!

[rocket757]

US nuclear industry asks White House to remove Russian uranium from sanctions

Normally, it is even necessary that our leadership close any cooperation on many topics !!! Vigorous affairs, contracts should be limited to the maximum.

[Nikolai Ivanov]

Russia is being blocked from all sides and by all available and illegal methods. But this is their decision. And where is ours, from Russia? Continued supplies of gas, mineral fertilizers, lumber, metal to Europe, uranium to the USA. This is what we see in open sources. What's this? But our liberal-American Nabiullina with her scabs raises the discount rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation by 20% for the speedy increase in prices for EVERYTHING!!! In our rear, officials behave worse than saboteurs, and it will be difficult to explain this to mothers, sisters, those soldiers and officers who destroy the Nazis in Ukraine. Maybe it's time for the Government of the Russian Federation (if it is popular) to declare a moratorium on the speculative economy and corrupt power in Russia for the period of the military operation?

[Shahno]

//Continuation of supplies of gas, mineral fertilizers, lumber, metal to Europe, uranium to the USA//
And what do you suggest, shoot yourself in the foot?
So you need to wait, the Republicans have already made a proposal to abandon Russian oil.

[Galleon]

Quote: Nikolay Ivanov

Maybe it's time for the Government of the Russian Federation (if it is popular)

What are you? Any reason??

[Rostislav]

In response to the sanctions, it is also possible for Russia to impose a ban on the supply of critical materials such as titanium and uranium. It is more profitable not to prohibit the sale, but to sell only in exchange for the sale of the goods of interest to us. Such a kind of hidden barter.

[Galleon]

If the American nuclear industry can lie down from sanctions - IT MUST LIE!!

[riwas]

US nuclear industry asks White House to remove Russian uranium from sanctions

We need to plan the restriction of trade not as it is beneficial for the West, but in such a way that they feel it in their own skin.

[bamsik]

let them heat it with gas, they will bring less to Europe

[singless]

why such half-measures? no so no

[sgr291158]

What are they talking about, what Uranus. You need to mine it yourself, but how about sanctions and Uranium come on.

[Emergency]

And we would ask the opposite. Enter uranium in the list of raw materials included in the export ban.

[Comrade Kim]

Quote: Kesha1980

And the Britons announced the impending confiscation of yachts, the mansions of our oligarchs. "Civilized" Europe

And we, and we will declare a hunger strike! We will support our bloodsucking oligarchs, we will not allow the adversary to deprive them of their cute trinkets. But seriously, our moneybags robbed Russia, withdrew money over the hill, and now this property will go to mattresses and small Britain? Yes, it's some kind of tent. Who is responsible for this multi-move? Why did the strategists not calculate the actions of the hegemon a couple of steps ahead?
Why, for our authorities, the work of returning unfairly received benefits is performed not by the Liler Nation administration, but by the Biden administration. But he (Biden) will pour money from the sale of oligarchic toys of our bloodsuckers into the US economy.
Was it not planned by non-patriots of Russia in advance?

[Scharnhorst]

In this case, the nuclear industry, which is highly dependent on the Russian cheap uranium.

The word "cheap" resonated very much. When will we stop being a source of "cheap" raw materials for the "rich" West? Uranus; gas; corn; wood, weapons... And what do we buy in the West for cheap? We trade with them for dollars and euros - and what can you buy from them for these paper candy wrappers?...

[velikoros-xnumx]

HEU-LEU Agreement (highly enriched uranium - low enriched uranium)

And here HEU-LEU, the program is completed and closed.
And there will be buyers for Russian uranium, for example, Iran or North Korea will gladly buy it. Who should pump Ukraine with weapons to kill Russian people, who should shoot down Russian planes in Syria, and who should help the rivals of these ... "partners".

[lomograph]

Who cares, but I am personally opposed to considering the issue of the supply of nuclear raw materials separately from the entire complex of sanctions.

It's like a pickup punk is going to fuck you up and buy some goods, but so that you don't get too upset, at the end he offers a napkin and half a glass of port wine ...

[Vovanych007]

Fuck you, not Uranus. Also cut off the fuel. And energy carriers. Let it not be easy for us ... But to see how the states die will be the highest pleasure.

[Sibguest]

No no no!
They said - sanctions against us, so - sanctions.
For the bazaar, citizens of the Yankees, you need to answer.
And then: we read here, we don’t read here ... some kind of kindergarten.