Senate unanimously approved legislation to ban the import of enriched uranium from Russia, a move aimed at blocking Kremlin shipments of reactor fuel. Russia currently supplies nearly a quarter of the enriched uranium used in U.S. commercial reactors, generating around $1 billion in sales annually.
The Senate unanimously approved legislation to ban the import of enriched uranium from Russia, a move aimed at blocking Kremlin shipments of reactor fuel. The Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act, which received unanimous consent, would prohibit US imports 90 days after… pic.twitter.com/8aExi1orRK
— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) May 1, 2024
The Senate unanimously approved legislation to ban the import of enriched uranium from Russia, a move aimed at blocking Kremlin shipments of reactor fuel. The Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act, which received unanimous consent, would prohibit US imports 90 days after… pic.twitter.com/8aExi1orRK
— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) May 1, 2024
by Baysdarby
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You can thank me, I sold my uranium stocks a few days ago.
Thats interesting and MUCH more to the story. At one point in time Hillary Clinton was secretary of state while ROSATOM was buying lands that were part of the dispute with ranchers , resulting in death (s?) of American citizens and complaints of becoming dependent on Russia for our energy needs. Whatever your take on Nuclear Energy, the ranchers stand off and the Clintons, the shifting of political winds from enabling ROSATOM and Putin to trying to rein them in is interesting. ALSO, we DO apparently use a substantial amount of nuclear fuel if 1 billion dollars is 25% of our yearly budget for fuel. I wonder who picks up the slack? I wonder if nuclear fuel production has been throttled the way our fossil fuel production and exportation has been?
When’s the last time the US Senate unanimously approved *anything*?