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Greenpeace said on Sunday (16/11) that France sent
uranium
which has been reprocessed to Russia to be processed for reuse.This information has a controversial tone because of Russia’s status at war with Europe which is being defended by Europe.
The environmental group argued that while legal, the trade was “immoral” as countries sought to increase sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine from 2022.
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Greenpeace members on Saturday filmed the loading of about 10 radioactively labeled containers onto a cargo ship at the Channel port of Dunkirk.
The Panama-registered ship Mikhail Dudin called Greenpeace is regularly used to transport enriched or natural uranium from France to St. Petersburg.St. Petersburg.
But Saturday’s shipment was said to be the first shipment of reprocessed uranium observed for three years.
“It’s not illegal, but it’s immoral,” Pauline Boyer, head of Greenpeace France’s nuclear campaign, said
AFP
.
“France should end its contract with Rosatom, the state company that has occupied Ukraine’s nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia for three years,” he added.
French-owned energy giant Electricite de France (EDF) signed a 600 million euro (US$700 million) deal in 2018 with Rosatom subsidiary Tenex for the recycling of reprocessed uranium.This operation is not affected by international sanctions related to the Ukraine war.
Rosatom has the only facility in the world, in Seversk, Siberia, capable of carrying out critical parts of the conversion of reprocessed uranium to enriched, reprocessed uranium.
Uranium can be reprocessed so that it can be enriched and reused.With uranium prices rising again on international markets, it is increasingly profitable for power companies to pursue reprocessing of spent fuel.
Only about 10 percent of the enriched uranium sent back to France by Russia was used at the Cruas nuclear power plant, in southern France, the only nuclear power plant in the country that can use reprocessed enriched uranium, according to Greenpeace.
The French Energy Ministry and EDF did not respond to questions
AFP
regarding such delivery or trade.
France ordered EDF to halt its uranium trade with Rosatom in 2022 when Greenpeace first revealed the contract after the Russian invasion.
France said in March 2024 that it was “seriously” considering the possibility of building its own conversion facility to produce reprocessed enriched uranium.
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