This is John Batcher, a conversation with colleague Henry Sakalski of the Nonproliferation Policy

Education Center about the fact that the US continues to buy uranium ore from Russia, from Russ Autumn, leading to part of the profit

that Russia's war machine is gaining from selling

this all material yellow cake uranium ore to the world. My memory is

about a billion dollars but in any event I ask Henry is this necessary?

Are there alternatives?

He educates me on the fact that Congress has legislation and the president has signed legislation to stop this

practice of paying the Russians for a yellow keg and it continues and what is to

be done is Henry Sikalski more of this later tonight.

It is but it's a very backhanded one. We have passed legislation that would have you believe that we've cut off that

commerce but we happen there is a very large portion of that legislation which

Mr Biden signed the Republicans back that

allows utilities to continue to buy for quite a few years. I think that's nonsense.

The amount of money that the nuclear electricity costs coming out of the plug in your house

attributable to nuclear fuel is very small.

Very small. We're talking about a few percentages.

So while the utilities are eager to make money and want to save every nickel, we should probably

say, no, that's false economy. No, you'll have to buy from Canada. You'll have to buy from Australia. You have to buy from other places.