On March 8, 2022 the US administration announced that it was banning Russian oil, natural gas and coal imports to the USA as part of a sanctions package in response to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.
Uranium, which is not currently produced in the USA, has not appeared on the sanctions lists in order to save the nuclear power plants which provide over 10% of US energy delivery. Without the uranium blackouts in major cities are on the horizon.
The Russian government is considering a ban on the supply of uranium to the USA as a possible response to Washington’s embargo on Russian energy resources.
Speaking to parliamentarians and reporters on Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak discussed plans to diversify Russia’s oil exports.
Asked to comment on the idea of stopping uranium exports to the USA as a potential counter-sanction measure, Novak replied that this matter is also on the agenda, and is being reviewed.
Almost half of the uranium being used by US nuclear power plants has been imported from Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, despite the USA having its own significant reserves.
US uranium mining sites in Texas and Wyoming, which boomed during the Cold War, have remained mothballed for a number of years.
However, recent weeks saw some energy companies expressing readiness to resume production subject to agreement by nuclear power producers to commit to long-term agreements.
Speaking about the impact of the sanctions, Novak said that the US and UK embargo on Russian energy resources would not mean big losses for the Russian economy.
This affected us to a lesser extent, because we supplied very little there. As for the United States, we supplied 3% of our total crude oil exports and 7% of our petroleum products.
When it comes to Europe, in Novak’s opinion, there is no chance that the region would ban Russian energy supplies, unless the EU wants to commit suicide and destroy its entire economy.
Meanwhile, according to a Reuters report, EU ministers are set to discuss a ban on Russian oil as part of a fifth package of sanctions.
Moscow attacked Ukraine in late February, following a seven-year standoff over Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, and Russia’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics with capitals in Donetsk and Lugansk.
The German- and French-brokered protocols had been designed to regularize the status of those regions within the Ukrainian state.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point Economy News 2022.
The majority of US citizens want Biden and his followers to pay for what they have done.They are incompetent and corrupt rulers trashing the American spirit.
My generation, 80’s, are resilient and will stand up against them. Russia has become a nation of values and morals.
We know we will suffer for what they have to do but we are willing to sacrifice. We are only grateful for someone with a backbone.
In Russia people are happy, almost 90% even have their own house, do not need to rent of pay a landlord kind of ripper to deal with?
Brilliant move. Lets see the American nuclear power industry survive this one…
Blackouts on the rise?
The process started in 20212, when the Mayan Calender gave way that we would start living in a new period of purification?