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Biden signs into law ban on Russian nuclear reactor fuel imports
REUTERS ^ | May 13, 2024 | Timothy Gardner

Posted on 05/14/2024 8:49:15 AM PDT by McGruff

President Joe Biden signed into law a ban on Russian enriched uranium on Monday, the White House said, in the latest effort by Washington to disrupt President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

The ban on imports of the fuel for nuclear power plants begins in about 90 days, although it allows the Department of Energy to issue waivers in case of supply concerns.

Russia is the world's top supplier of enriched uranium, and about 24% of the enriched uranium used by U.S. nuclear power plants come from the country.

The law also unlocks about $2.7 billion in funding in previous legislation to build out the U.S. uranium fuel industry.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: ban; russia; uranium
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1 posted on 05/14/2024 8:49:15 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Darn! Have to cancel my order now.


2 posted on 05/14/2024 8:51:39 AM PDT by xoxox
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“… and about 24% of the enriched uranium used by U.S. nuclear power plants come from the country”

So Joe is punching America in the nose again? Less electricity for all those electric cars and air conditioning.


3 posted on 05/14/2024 8:52:23 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
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To: McGruff

Well, there’s more for Iran now, I guess.


4 posted on 05/14/2024 8:53:31 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
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To: McGruff

So wait, first the clintons sell a significant portion of our uranium production capability to the Russians, and then Joe Biden bans us from buying it back.


5 posted on 05/14/2024 8:54:31 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: McGruff
Sorry Joe. You are decades late to this party!


6 posted on 05/14/2024 8:57:27 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: xoxox

What a truckload of horseshit this is! Putin got the raw uranium in a deal he made with Hillary Clinton! SHE is the culprit of Russian Collusion, and absolutely a de facto Russian agent. She got rich. America got ripped off. In earlier times she would have met her end for Treason.


7 posted on 05/14/2024 8:58:04 AM PDT by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees )
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What a truckload of horseshit this is! Putin got the raw uranium in a deal he made with Hillary Clinton! SHE is the culprit of Russian Collusion, and absolutely a de facto Russian agent. She got rich. America got ripped off. In earlier times she would have met her end for Treason.
Wasn't Biden VP at that time?

He got his share or it wouldn't have happened.

8 posted on 05/14/2024 9:06:07 AM PDT by lewislynn ( Trump accomplished more for Americans in a 4 year term than any President in your lifetime.)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Yes, Joe is strangling American industry.

You can’t just get uranium anywhere because it must be refined and safely shipped.

Guess we will have a “glorious transition” to wind farms and solar panels to power everything, which they never will.

It’s obviously so dumb it’s hard to believe anyone could be this stupid on purpose.


9 posted on 05/14/2024 9:06:53 AM PDT by packagingguy
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Take THAT, Putin!!

       

Like The Putin cares what Ol' Rumpleforeskin does. The Putin has the video tapes of who's REALLY running things in the United States of Banana.

And it ain't JoeNocchio and his perpetually full adult diaper.

10 posted on 05/14/2024 9:18:15 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: McGruff

And was rewarded with an ice cream cone for spelling his name right.


11 posted on 05/14/2024 9:19:56 AM PDT by VideoPaul
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So let me get this straight. Hillary sell our uranium to Russia and Biden bans us buying it back, got it. We’re supposed to shiver in the dark.


12 posted on 05/14/2024 9:24:21 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: McGruff

Make deals with certain African countries and cut Putin off from one of his main sources.


13 posted on 05/14/2024 9:29:36 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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... As secretary of state she “approved” a deal to sell Uranium One, a company that controlled a fifth of U.S. uranium production, to the Russian atomic agency Rosatom. In return she and Bill received vast amounts of payoffs from the Kremlin and related interests — most notably a $500,000 speaker fee for Bill from a Moscow-based investment bank, which works out at about $250,000 net of tax....


14 posted on 05/14/2024 9:42:55 AM PDT by midwest_hiker
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If only there was a way we could expand our own energy production so we don’t have to buy it from our enemies and sell it to our allies.


15 posted on 05/14/2024 9:54:04 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: McGruff

There goes our nuclear power industry


16 posted on 05/14/2024 10:08:45 AM PDT by redgolum
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What are they going to do about Russian uranium produced in America?


17 posted on 05/14/2024 10:19:44 AM PDT by webheart
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WEF wins another one...they, through FJB and his minions, are slowly and intentionally starving the US of energy. People better wake up and soon.


18 posted on 05/14/2024 10:20:55 AM PDT by jpp113
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To: McGruff

Russia is the world’s top supplier of enriched uranium, and about 24% of the enriched uranium used by U.S. nuclear power plants come from the country.

Does anyone remember Hillary and Obama selling our uranium to Russia, then denying it in the 2016 election year? “We sold it to a Canadian company that was front for a Russian company, and it is for only peaceful purposes. How were we supposed to know a corporation called Russia.com..exageration...was it Roscom? Why sell it to Russia to have them supply us with it?

Can our government be any more corrupt, or do we have further depths to plumb?


19 posted on 05/14/2024 10:29:22 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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Wasn’t the process of buying enriched uranium from Russia a way to dispose of USSR’s ‘excess’ nuclear arsenal. Mix the highly enriched fissile stuff with unenriched U238 to dilute it down to a proportion our reactors could burn. We don’t want Vlad keeping a surplus on that.


20 posted on 05/14/2024 11:20:26 AM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris events are called dodo ops)
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