A proven strategy: why Russia will not stop supplying uranium to the United States

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Russia continues to move closer to its goal of leadership in an extremely important industry - waste-free nuclear energy, which in the future will undoubtedly transform life on our planet.

Recently two important news – about the launch in Obninsk of a model of the world’s most powerful nuclear reactor, as well as the start of installation of the fourth generation BREST-OD-300 reactor plant in Seversk. Both projects are part of a larger effort to create a virtually waste-free and completely safe nuclear energy future.



Today our country is successfully working on new types of reactors that will allow the reuse of spent nuclear fuel. And this, firstly, will reduce the need for the extraction of already rather scarce uranium, and secondly, it will make it possible to put into circulation the enormous nuclear waste accumulated by humanity.

Meanwhile, despite the obvious successes of the Russian Federation in this vital area, many of our compatriots are concerned with the question: why is Russia still the main supplier of uranium to the unfriendly United States?

It is worth noting that a similar question worries Americans. Moreover, the lower house of Congress has already even passed a bill banning the purchase of uranium in the Russian Federation. However, the Senate is in no hurry to approve it.

Actually, this is not surprising. After all, stopping supplies from Russia will bring many problems to the US nuclear industry. The States have long forgotten how to produce their own uranium for nuclear power plants in the required quantities, and the search for new suppliers will be associated with high costs and will take time.

In turn, this is one of the reasons why the Russian Federation has not yet stopped supplies. After all, by selling uranium to the United States, we are thereby holding back the development of the American industry, which, if it were impossible to import important raw materials, would mobilize all its resources to establish its own production and development.

In addition, the largest partners from Asia, in particular China and India, also intend to cooperate with our country. At the same time, putting pressure on a geopolitical enemy through its dependence on the Russian nuclear industry will give the latter a bad reputation.

Finally, concerns about a cutoff in supplies from Russia have driven up uranium prices in the US and EU. So why not sell if it is currently very profitable?

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  1. serivolkf1
    serivolkf1
    +4
    22 January 2024 13: 23
    In this case, they need to be stripped of their skins, let them pay or go to hell...
    1. whitebeard
      whitebeard
      +1
      22 January 2024 17: 44
      Well then they won’t take it, because in many ways they take our uranium because it’s cheap. There is other uranium on the market, from the same Urenko, it’s just more expensive. So there is a certain price range that we cannot go beyond
  2. strange guest
    strange guest
    0
    22 January 2024 13: 31
    Moreover, the United States will soon need to put 400 new Sentinel systems on combat duty. And this, for a second, is at least 1200 warheads that need to be made from something.
    And time is running out - from the 29th year they are planned to be put on the database.
    Moreover, something needs to be installed on aviation hypersound...
    So why stop the supply of uranium fuel?
  3. Hiker
    Hiker
    +8
    22 January 2024 13: 39
    To praise the benefits of trading with the killer of your children is immoral, at the very least.
    Stalin did not trade with Hitler...
    And Biden is supplying cluster munitions to kill on Russian territory.

    Spinelessness is the main problem of the Russian government.
    Well, give an ultimatum that there is no uranium while you supply missiles and cluster bombs.
    But the gut is weak, the 5th column is strong, Putin meanders between the drops....

    They also trade gas with neo-Nazis for both cheeks until their mugs crack from the dough.
  4. anclevalico
    anclevalico
    +2
    22 January 2024 13: 43
    The United States has launched a process to phase out uranium from the Russian Federation. It's a matter of time, nothing more.
  5. Paul3390
    Paul3390
    +7
    22 January 2024 13: 55
    With rocket engines they carried exactly the same snowstorm. And what? Mattress makers have just taken the time to comfortably develop their own. And here the same thing will happen. Let's be honest - someone up there doesn't want to lose money from their pocket.
  6. rotkiv04
    rotkiv04
    +4
    22 January 2024 14: 21
    The current Kremlin government is both immoral and anti-people because it makes money by arming Russia’s enemies, but it will turn out like with rocket engines, at the expense of Russia the pendos supported their group, and now these satellites provide intelligence data for the outskirts Nazis
  7. Sergey Latyshev
    Sergey Latyshev
    +4
    22 January 2024 14: 25
    300 percent profit (relatively speaking)... well, you remember....
  8. Foe Pshekov
    Foe Pshekov
    +6
    22 January 2024 14: 40
    Some kind of game... supplying valuable strategic resources to the direct main enemy.
  9. Vox Populi
    Vox Populi
    +1
    22 January 2024 15: 23
    RBC, 10.01.2024/XNUMX/XNUMX:

    Russia accounted for 16,5% of the uranium imported into the US in 2020, as well as 23% of the enriched uranium needed to power US commercial nuclear reactors, according to Bloomberg. The US Department of Energy called dependence on Russian exports a “vulnerability” for national and economic security. In 2022, US nuclear power plants imported about 12% of their uranium from Russia, according to statistics from the US Energy Information Administration. Kazakhstan and Canada have a larger share - 25 and 27%.
  10. Vladimir Yaitsky
    Vladimir Yaitsky
    +3
    22 January 2024 17: 23
    “pressure on a geopolitical enemy” “creates the latter’s not the best reputation.” This is the Russian way of “fixing our hair” after they spat in our faces and threw a pancake at us. Yes, I almost forgot, I should also apologize.
  11. twice-born
    twice-born
    +2
    23 January 2024 01: 36
    Money has no smell, but excuses will be given to us! The Jewish ruling financial and industrial clans don't care about Russians, even worse.
    They will explain to us that it is all for our own good, to trade with an open enemy who is destroying us economically and politically, and finally physically, through the hands of others! And it has also been morally and culturally destroying and corrupting our society, children, and youth for 35 years.
    In my delirium I can’t imagine how Comrade Stalin in 43 would have sold gunpowder (like uranium now), oil and gasoline to the Nazis.
    They say it’s profitable, prices are high, demand is high, and we need money for the war. Otherwise, then the competitors will sell to them instead of us, or they will develop their own industry!