Several American energy companies, including Duke Energy Corp, Exelon Corp, as well as the US Nuclear Energy Institute (Nuclear Energy Institute, Nei) seek to convince representatives of the White House not to impose sanctions against Russian uranium. Reuters reported on Wednesday with reference to two sources.
According to sources, NEI is working on restrictions regarding uranium supplies from the Russian Federation, they did not fall into a package of sanctions aimed at the energy sector of the Russian Federation.
According to one of the interlocutors of the agency, the US nuclear power industry depends on the supply of “cheap uranium from Russia.”
According to the Energy Information Management Energy Information Management Energy Information and the World Nuclear Association, which leads Reuters, almost half the amount of uranium necessary for the work of American NPPs, the United States is obtained from Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.