News archive on the topic "uranium"

The US Senate has approved a bill to introduce a ban on the import of Russian low-enriched uranium. Currently, the share of Russian supplies in the US nuclear energy industry is about 20%. The document has been sent to Biden for signature. The law will come into force 90 days after its entry into force, and the restriction itself will remain in effect until 2040. However, during the transition period...

The US bought 416 tons of uranium from Russia in the first half of 2023. This is 2,2 times more than in the same period last year (188 tons). The last time approximately this much uranium was imported from the Russian Federation was in 2005. These facts outraged volunteer Alexei Zhivov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Russia is selling the US a strategically important resource – uranium. Still...

The decision of Niger, where a pro-Western president was overthrown, to suspend uranium supplies to France threatens the European Union with dire consequences. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this as stated by Member of the European Parliament from France Terry Mariani. “For France this will not be a big problem. Of course, Niger is a traditional uranium producer for Paris, but not only it - for example, supplies come from Kazakhstan, Australia and...

Russia reserves the right to use depleted uranium projectiles if Ukraine uses them. The President of Russia stated this during a meeting with Russian military officers, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Thus, information appeared in the American press that, following the UK, the United States will also supply shells with depleted uranium to Ukraine. “We saw from the example of Serbia how they...

The use of munitions containing depleted uranium, which the UK has promised to supply to Ukraine, will cause irreparable damage to both people and the environment. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in a story on the Euronews TV channel, which is funded by the EU government. “The UK’s decision to send shells containing depleted uranium to Ukraine caused bewilderment. The use of similar ammunition during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999...

Depleted uranium shells, which the UK announced to supply to Ukraine, have a high level of toxicity. This was reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent, said by military toxicologist Alexander Ediger, who recalled that this kind of ammunition was used by the West in Iraq and Yugoslavia. “The ammunition disintegrates into microparticles during the explosion, and the entire territory where the fighting took place, even not very...

Russian President Vladimir Putin commented on the statement of the British Ministry of Defense on the supply of depleted uranium shells to Ukraine. He stated this at a joint press conference with Chinese President Xi Jingping in the Kremlin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “While the Chairman and I were discussing the possibility of implementing the Chinese peace plan (the Chairman of the PRC paid great attention to his peaceful...

Deliveries of shells with uranium cores to Ukraine should be considered by Moscow as the use of a dirty nuclear bomb against Russia. Military expert Konstantin Sivkov stated this on air on the Internet channel “Red Lines,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There is one very important point in supplies that needs to be highlighted as key. To tanks and infantry fighting vehicles of the Western world, equipped with 25-mm Bushmaster cannons or...

The rapid deployment of the CSTO contingent to Kazakhstan is explained by Moscow’s desire to maintain uranium deposits in this former Soviet republic under its control. Verkhovna Rada deputy from European Solidarity Vladimir Ariev wrote about this on his Facebook page, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “On January 1, the European Commission began the process of recognizing nuclear energy as environmental. This means that in the European Union it...

The liquidation of Ukrainian uranium production, which is on the verge of bankruptcy, will cause a serious environmental and social disaster, wipe out several cities from the face of the earth and finally deprive the country of energy independence. This was stated by Dmitry Cherny, a deputy from the Servant of the People faction, during a plenary session of the Ukrainian parliament, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “A critical situation has developed at the Ukrainian nuclear-industrial complex enterprise “Vostochny...

Moldovan peacekeepers, who are sent to Kosovo as part of cooperation with NATO, will be deployed in the most dangerous areas of the region. The publication “Notebook” writes about this. Moldova”, reports the correspondent of “PolitNavigator”. “The Moldovan soldiers will be precisely at the Italian base Camp Vilaggio Italia, in the western part of Kosovo, in close proximity to the Serbian areas, where hostilities could break out at any moment.…

Today, nuclear power plants in the country operate under restrictions due to a lack of resources. At the same time, the nuclear energy industry in Ukraine is very promising. Uranium mining, unlike coal, which is now located in uncontrolled territories, remains the only guarantee of the country’s energy security. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This opinion was expressed by a Kiev expert on...

Moscow – Kyiv, December 11 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, at a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, proposed organizing the export of coal and uranium to help Kiev overcome the costs of Russia’s energy policy, Vedomosti reports citing Reuters . At the same time, Abbott called Australia an “energy superpower” - that’s what the Russian Federation once called itself. Subscribe to…

Moscow - Kyiv, September 17 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - On the territory of Ukraine there are large uranium deposits, nuclear power units where it is possible to enrich nuclear fuel, as well as enterprises where ballistic missiles were produced during the USSR. All these factors will allow Ukraine to create nuclear weapons within 10 years, according to Russian experts interviewed by Izvestia. Subscribe to the PolitNavigator news...