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For Cécile Duflot, director general of Oxfam France, nuclear power does not guarantee our energy independence, because France would buy uranium from Russia which supplies our nuclear power stations. Is the ex-MP telling the truth?
Cécile Duflot, director general of Oxfam France, said France would buy uranium from Russia to fuel our nuclear power plants. The former MP refers to a Greenpeace document dating from March 2022. France did import 19,245 tonnes of natural uranium, and 8,213 tonnes of enriched uranium from Russia between 2000 and 2020. So France would import at both natural uranium, which must be processed to feed power plants, and already enriched uranium which allows it to directly feed nuclear reactors to produce electricity.
In reality, for the past two years, Russia has no longer been a supplier of choice. In 2020, France bought almost no natural uranium from it: only two kilos out of the 6,282 tonnes imported over the year. According to the Euratom technical committee, France mainly supplied itself from Niger, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. France has been diversifying its natural uranium suppliers for a long time. For enriched uranium, France acquired 110 tonnes from Russia in 2021, but this represents only 0.01% of its total imports.
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