The EU is again increasing the level of buying nuclear fuel from Russia despite demanding strict sanctions against Moscow

According to Reuters, the European Atomic Energy Organization has claimed that nuclear fuel is not on the list of Western sanctions against Russia. The representative of the ESA organization has been quoted by the British news organization as saying that, this year 2023, European countries have increased the level of purchases of Russian nuclear fuel produced by the WER reactor compared to 2021. He said, last year 2022, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary and Slovakia increased their purchases of nuclear fuel from Russia. Despite the Western countries imposing strict sanctions on Moscow, it is still very dependent on Russian energy Before that, last November, Kathryn Huff, Head of the Atomic Energy Office of the US Department of Energy, said that Washington's reliance on Russian nuclear fuel is a major threat to the country's national security. He said, the thing that is more worrying than anything else is that almost 20 percent of the fuel used by American nuclear reactors is bought from Russia. At the end of August this year, Bloomberg television reported that European and American countries have made great efforts to find alternatives to uranium and Russian energy, but they have failed and it seems that they will continue for many years to be dependent on Russian energy. It is good to remind here that, almost half of the uranium energy in the world is guaranteed by Russia.