The White House believed that banning uranium imports from Russia would allow the United States to eliminate dependence on peaceful nuclear energy. TASS reports this, citing the statement of US Presidential Assistant for National Security Jake Sullivan.
He noted that the law signed by President Joe Biden “will strengthen the country’s energy and economic security.” According to Sullivan, this can be achieved by reducing and ultimately eliminating dependence on the Russian Federation in the field of “peaceful nuclear energy”. According to him, the allocation of $ 2.72 billion, approved by the US Congress at the request of Biden, will make it possible to create uranium enrichment capacity in the United States.
May 10, Centrus, the largest US company in the field of nuclear fuel cycle statedHe will ask Russia to allow continued purchases of enriched uranium. On April 30, the United States imposed a ban on the supply of such fuels from the Russian Federation; This ban took effect 90 days later.
Previously in the USA sureIt can replace uranium from Russia.