What is it about?
a number of actions on the part of Western countries. First of all, it is about the fact that the nuclear sphere should not be an exception to the regime of sanctions in the EU and the USA, since Russia has already crossed the red line and started using civil nuclear energy as a weapon. There is no need to wait for Europe's almost critical gas dependence to be supplemented by a critical level of nuclear and nuclear technology. About this in his material for ZN.UA “War in Europe: the Kremlin's nuclear scenario and what to do in Ukraine” writes Mykhailo Gonchar, president of the Center for Global Studies “Strategy XXI”.
It is worth mentioning, writes the author, that the International Working Group on Sanctions Against Russia (the McFaul-Yermak group) in its “Action Plan…” dated April 19 provided for sanctions against Rosatom. But they are not visible in any of the packages. Yet. And here there is a place to go for a walk. The successful actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine under the command of Valery Zaluzhny should be supplemented by the purposeful actions of the McFaul-Yermak group.
“It is necessary for Ukraine to appeal to the governments of a number of foreign countries regarding the freezing of Rosatom projectsuntil the complete cessation of Russian aggression and the withdrawal of occupation troops from the territory of Ukraine. Officially, 36 foreign projects are called “Rosatom”, although half a dozen of them seem to exist only on paper, Gonchar notes. – It is especially necessary to demand from the hybrid friend of Ukraine the President of France to terminate the agreement on strategic cooperation from December 2, 2021 between the French nuclear conglomerate Framatome and Rosatom. The cooperation between the subsidiary company “Rosenergoatom” and the French EDF should be terminated. Rosatom continues to show off the production in partnership with Areva (now Orano) of heat-releasing assemblies at Elektrostal near Moscow for seven nuclear power units in Europe. Also, Rosatom and Alstom continue to work on the development of a turbine in Russia through the Alstom-Atomenergomash joint venture established in 2007.
The expert emphasizes that there should be a categorical demand to the European Commission, the governments of France and the USA regarding the dismantling of equipment in early February 2022 for the acquisition by Rosatom with the assistance of EDF of 20% of the French company — the manufacturer of turbines GEAST (a joint venture of the American General Electric and the French Alstom). Rosatom will not be able to implement its foreign projects without Ukrainian Turboatom turbines or American-French GEAST turbines. For example, the Akkuyu NPP project in Turkey without GEAST turbines and generators is hard to imagine.
Russia should be excluded from the international projectthe construction of a thermonuclear fusion reactor ITER on the Kadarash Plateau in France.
The Government of Ukraine should contact the European Commission and the governments of EU member states regarding the transfer of power units with Soviet-designed VVER reactors to non-Russian fuel. After all, this is not such an insurmountable task. According to Euratom, only 18 out of 103 nuclear power units in the EU depend on Russian fuel supplies. They produce no more than 10% of all nuclear energy in the EU.
Also, according to Honchar,the approach to previously granted licenses by state bodies of the USA, Canada, and the EU to “daughters” and “granddaughters” of “Rosatom”, in particular, “Techsnabexport” (international brand TENEX) and Uranium One, should be revised. The latter conduct extensive activities in the sale and extraction of uranium raw materials, increasingly increasing the volume of supplies to the USA and Europe, creating dependencies according to a scheme similar to that implemented by Gazprom with the supply of gas to EU countries. In fact, Rosatom, destroying competition on the world market, subordinated the production of uranium-containing raw materials in Kazakhstan (the world leader) and Uzbekistan. Thus, “Rosatom” controls 36% of the global market.
“Only in the United States, acting through subsidiaries, it has 25 contracts for the supply of uranium raw materials with 19 American firms until 2028 for a total of $6.5 billion. American experts indicate that Australian and Canadian mines have recently reduced production due to , that Russia was dumping uranium prices on the world market. Uranium One is actively penetrating promising lithium projects in third countries, for example, in Argentina together with … Canada. It would be completely logical and without special consequences a direct ban on the import of uranium to the USA from Rosatom structures, – writes the expert.
Also, in his opinion, joint EU actions to stop the construction project of two power units would be premature for Russia. >NPP “Paks” in Hungary, where the contractor — “Rosatom” — was chosen to bypass the EU-mandatory tender procedure. Two in one: a blow to Rosatom and action to destroy the Kremlin's metastasis in the center of Europe — the corruption-prone, anti-European regime of Orban.
Another subsidiary of Rosatom is Atomflot– also appears in the mentioned Plan of the McFaul group as a candidate for the introduction of sanctions, Honchar adds. The company's vessels, both specialized icebreakers and container ships, as well as vessels of the auxiliary technical fleet, should fall under the prohibition of visits to the ports of Europe, North America, G7 countries, their maintenance, repair, etc. Atomflot should not receive any equipment from European or American companies, he is convinced.
It is also necessary to initiate that the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO, head office in London) reviewed the activities of its Moscow center, terminating the participation of operators from EU member states and transferring them to the Paris center.
In addition, it would be worth contacting < strong>Interpol regarding the search and detention of managers and members of the supervisory board (nine people), the board (14 people), the public council (24 people) of Rosatom as persons contributing to terrorist activities at the nuclear facility energy industry in a neighboring country.
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