Money for war in Ukraine: Putin is profitable for nuclear fuel trade with the event - experts

According to Western trade companies, in 2022 she sold nuclear products in 2022 in 2022 worth about $ 1. 7 billion. The US and their European allies import from Russia a huge amount of nuclear fuel, providing Moscow with hundreds of millions of euros with such necessary income for war in Ukraine. Western experts are alarmed and claim that legal trade in nuclear components contributes to Russia's financing and complicates efforts to limit its military capabilities.

This was reported on August 10 by ABC News. The material states that the dependence on Russian nuclear products, used mainly for refueling of civilian reactors, leads to the fact that the US and their allies may face lack of energy if Russian President Vladimir Putin stops supply. The Executive Director of the Educational Center in Washington on Nuclear Weapons Policy, Henry Sokolsky, noted that the import of non -sanctions is an absurd.

"We need to give money to people who produce weapons? It is an absurd! - said Sokolsky. Vieces, according to trading companies, publish shocking figures - Russia sold to firms in the US and Europe nuclear products worth about $ 1. 7 billion. At the same time, the procurement took place at a time when the event imposed severe sanctions against Moscow in connection with its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Moreover, according to the US Energy Information Department, last year, Russia has supplied the US nuclear industry about 12% of Uranium. In 2022, Europe reported that it will receive about 17% of uranium from Russia. The material also refers to the reasons that Western countries are reluctant to speak about limiting the import of Russian nuclear fuel. The fact is that the US nuclear power, which largely uses external sources of fuel, produces about 20% of US electricity.

According to experts, this situation was due to the fact that the US uranium industry suffered after the conclusion of nuclear weapons in 1993, which led to the import of inexpensive weapons weapons from Russia. It should be noted that according to official data of the US energy information (EIA), most of the uranium, delivered in 2022 to the United States, was of foreign origin.