Greenpeace: Intensified Nuclear Material Trade Between France and Russia

Greenpeace has denounced the "intensification" of nuclear material trade between France and Russia amid the war in Ukraine. The NGO reported that it recorded the loading of reprocessed uranium destined for Russia at the port of Dunkirk.

Greenpeace France filmed the loading of approximately ten containers labeled with radioactive material warnings onto the cargo ship Mikhail Dudin in Dunkirk. According to the NGO, the Mikhail Dudin regularly travels to Dunkirk to unload enriched or depleted uranium loaded in Saint Petersburg.

Pauline Boyer, in charge of nuclear energy and energy transition at Greenpeace France, stated that France should cancel its contracts with Rosatom, the company that owns the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. In 2018, EDF signed a 600 million euro contract with Tenex, a Rosatom subsidiary, for the recycling of reprocessed uranium.

Greenpeace claims that the French government ordered EDF to halt exports of reprocessed uranium to Russia in 2022.

Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ