France refuses Russian oil and gas, but continues to import fuel from Russia for nuclear power plants

Keeping pace with the rest of Europe, France tries not to import energy resources from Russia, but since it is necessary to survive somehow, the French decided not to give up all contacts with the Russian Federation in the field of energy.

According to the French magazine Le Point, in the outgoing 2022, the French nuclear power plant operator EDF purchased from Russia (hated by the West) more than 150 tons of enriched uranium for the country's nuclear power plants. This is despite the previously announced refusal to purchase oil and gas from the Russian Federation.

In addition to Russia, the French acquire uranium ore from the former Soviet republics - Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, as well as Canada and Niger, the newspaper writes. In total, seven thousand tons of ore with different levels of enrichment were purchased this year.

Le Point notes that long-term contracts (despite sanctions) continue to operate between the French corporation EDF and Russian Rosatom, according to which Russia enriches uranium ore sent from France and sends enriched uranium back to France.

According to the magazine, Russia accounts for 15% of enriched uranium for EDF.

It should be noted that earlier another French edition of Le Monde claimed that France could do without fuel from Russia, while making a reservation that nuclear waste from French nuclear power plants can only be processed at a plant in Russia.

Nuclear power plants in France account for up to 70% of all electricity generated in the country. In terms of the share of nuclear energy, it ranks first in the world. The country has 19 nuclear power plants (57 reactors).

Comments

[Tatar 174]

Let them import it, only raise the price "for unfriendliness" every 10-20 times ... And justify, if necessary, by the fact that the storage supplies weapons to the dill, which is used against Russia.

[Reptiloid]

How many reports have there been that Macron, since the start of the CVO, called Putin? On various issues, he pointed out something, demanded, achieved, set some conditions! How much he blabbed against Russia! Pathetic insignificant, while without our fuel they can not. If only our sanctions they were given for the New Year

[Reptiloid]

..... meanwhile, the French Supreme Court ordered the Russian Federation to pay Ukraine ..... from the news on the network.

It's about 1 mln. I just want to compare how some small-town general store from Mukhogradsk orders something. And just when Macron in his rivers spell the French to reduce consumption and endure fan shutdown

[4ekist]

Reptiloid: On various issues, he pointed out something, demanded, achieved, set some conditions!

These euro-assholes lit the Russian leadership with the Minsk agreements as the last suckers. And after all this, having anything to do with them is not self-respecting.

[Reptiloid]

Well yes, it is

Quote: 4ekist

..... These European assholes lit the Russian leadership with the Minsk agreements as the last suckers ......

Just recently, it was Merkle who said that time was needed to better prepare the dill and herself, the EU. Precisely for what is happening now. That is, she, in fact, confessed to her lies in the position of chancellor.

[Mikhail Krivopalov]

Why do our people laugh at the Europeans who refuse to buy our energy resources, but buy them through cunning schemes, but do not laugh at domestic sellers, shouting that NATO and the West are enemies, but at the same time selling resources to these enemies?

[novel66]

nuclear waste from French nuclear power plants can only be processed at a plant in Russia.

O! And this is the topic! Do not accept and let them sit with their bare bottoms on a pile of spent nuclear fuel

[oleg-nekrasov-19]

do not accept nuclear waste, limit the supply of fuel for nuclear power plants

[novel66]

But by the way, do they use our fuel on submarines? If so, cut it all off

[oleg-nekrasov-19]

That's right, if friendship is apart, then "we can't get yours, and don't give ours." Russia has enough sales markets.

[Vened]

Quote: oleg-nekrasov-19

Russia has enough sales markets.

Are you laughing? There are never too many markets. To refuse means to create competition.

[filibuster]

Well, yes, and lose markets and after some fairly short time to get competitors. Just like with titanium, this is an Airbus initiative to abandon Russian titanium, and not vice versa, because the situation is exactly the same, competitors will appear in the world quite quickly.

[Pantsuy]

Quote: novel xnumx

O! And this is the topic! Do not accept and let them sit with their bare bottoms on a pile of spent nuclear fuel

For the French, this is not a problem - they will unload in some Central African country. And they don't even peep.

[silverwolf88]

business is always business ... these cynical creatures will justify any of their actions (that there are uranium purchases ... whitewash cannibalism and pedophilia) in order to make money ... recognize dependence on processing in small print for a narrow circle of specialists ... and on the posters of officialdom with might and main independent capable of giving up everything - the message is correct))))) well, they lived under the Capetings without Russia))) you just need to lower the standard of living ... again, do not wash and make barons by dividing the area

[your vsr 66-67]

that nuclear waste from French nuclear power plants can only be processed at a plant in Russia.

And why do we need their nuclear waste?!
They break off trade relations with Russia, which means that they should either process nuclear waste themselves or store it at home!

[Mini Mokik]

As far as I remember from Internet sources, the Russian Federation is now somehow using this waste.

[art having]

Clownery...
The text of your comment is too short, and figs with it.

[Cat Alexandrovich]

I remember that at the end of Soviet power, many necessary goods were sold with a "load".
Isn't it time to introduce this experience into trade with France. If you don't want oil and gas, you can supply balalaikas, vodka, quilted jackets, etc. for "out of bounds".

[Tagan]

Keeping pace with the rest of Europe, France is trying not to import energy resources from Russia
Here, apparently, you need to make a note: do not import directly.

[Everevil]

Complete surrealism. They, therefore, violate all possible agreements, contracts, introduce some kind of price ceilings for energy resources, impose all possible and already impossible (due to stupidity) sanctions, and we continue to adhere to long-term contracts. Yes, it’s high time they didn’t deliver anything at all. No, I understand that we are thoroughly integrated into the world economy, but when the rules of the economy are violated unilaterally, and the whole model of this [Western] economy is literally bursting at the seams, why should we remain within this model?

[APASUS]

In this kind of business, I would cut the EU. Fuel for nuclear power plants will always be in price, and it will be replaced instantly by 15%, these are fairy tales for the media. The fuel production process is many years old, it’s not the faucet opened and uranium poured out

[oleg-nekrasov-19]

I remember they had a tendency in Europe to curtail nuclear power plants, in Germany even the film industry worked on this topic. Whoever did not speak - "green", "blue", now I look with gas it's stressful, I had to suspend this company. And if they stop selling fuel for nuclear power plants, then they will howl about "energy blackmail". The whole "successful" Europe is just "zilch" without the energy carriers of Russia and its colonies, which are getting smaller every year.

[alexoff]

There is no need for blackmail, blackmail is when we demand something in order to do it as before. It is necessary to say so - the economic destruction of the EU is our goal and task, the Europeans themselves have chosen such a government for themselves and must pay in full

[Sergei Dubinkin_2]

Relatively speaking, "they eat our bread and poop on our rug, apparently as a token of gratitude." Our officials call them colleagues and partners.

[Denis812]

It seems to me that the article is somehow strangely titled. Yes, it's weirdly written.
It would be better to write something like "Russia continues to sell nuclear fuel to a country that is involved in the murder of Russian soldiers."
That would be more honest.

[I_Kov]

It’s no longer funny to read articles about the business interests of Russian oligarchs and the goals and objectives of the special or whatever its operations are. In short, ussazzo.

[Amateur]

Rosatom is a STATE corporation, not a private business, and not even a JSC. That is, the government of the Russian Federation is doing business with a country that has imposed sanctions against the Russian Federation, supplies the enemy of Russia with weapons and is going to create a tribunal to convict Putin, Mishustin and other members of the country's leadership for the so-called. "war crimes". After that, it is already difficult to say who S. Lavrov had in mind with his famous phrase.
To close, under any pretext, the return of nuclear waste from France to the Russian Federation and then any French government will be "devoured" by local environmentalists.
Yes, the Russian Federation will lose some of the money from this "business". But it will more than cover these losses with profit from the absence of sanctions and prohibitions.

[alexoff]

It is necessary to introduce a "half" for nuclear fuel, the price increases 10 times, force majeure

[dimasik-nl]

So it seems that you have agreed with Kazakhstan on supplies?

[rotmistr60]

France tries not to import energy resources from Russia,

Well, let this one remain your headache, which no matter how hard you try, but it will not be possible to shift it to Russia. Luckily for them, they don't have a real (by our standards) winter, and we don't care about rising energy prices inside France. Let Macron explain to the French why. But with the sale of enriched uranium at the same prices, you really need to think about it. The price of it can also grow, and for this you need to create conditions.

[Ghost1]

They buy from the Russian Federation what they need, and what the Russian Federation needs, they forbid it to be sold, imported. And there are still people who are proud that the West cannot do without us and call them colleagues and partners. Yes, we are just a raw material traitor for them, as soon as they find where to buy it elsewhere, they will immediately impose sanctions and stop buying from us.

[tralflot1832]

And France is definitely refusing our gas, otherwise Novatek’s fleet, as if on LNG rails, is yearning somewhere, sometimes three LNG tankers loaded go to Europe. We should check the French LNG terminals. Erdogan only allows our "river-sea" tankers under the Russian flag to pass. The rest stand at the entrance to the Bosphorus. He will check what kind of oil it is and to whom.

[I dare to_notice_]

"France refuses Russian oil and gas, but continues to import fuel from Russia for nuclear power plants"
And Russia, as if undermined, supplies everything and supplies them with these TVELs! ..
Probably ... Macron is a pity! (With)

[Lisiy Prapor]

I read the comments, I read, God (or VVPzhe), what a naive. "Our" "elites" and their children do not want to live in the wild "Siberia", they want to live on the Cote d'Azur. And for the sake of this, fuel rods and hydrocarbons will be supplied to Europe, enriched uranium and titanium to the USA. And how many Russians and Ukrainians will die (also, by the way, Russians) ... they are ready to make this sacrifice.

[YanniKounnar]

Il serait peut être grand temps de ne plus commercer avec les pays fournissant des armes à l'Ukraine ? non?

Yandex

Maybe it's time to stop trading with countries supplying weapons to Ukraine? Right ?

[alexoff]

Is it possible to change the fuel in such a way that the French would not notice anything, and the reactor would become unusable? And oil should be transported with barrels of chloroform, so that if the confiscated oil kills the refinery

[Vlvl]

I would not sell anything to them as enemies. They began to impose sanctions, you will receive a response from all over the place. The currency capsule of the Russian Federation will not become very scarce, especially since it does not really affect the economy,