#Ukraine: #Russia: #Rosatom: Trading with the enemy. Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
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🗓️ 22 April 2023
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#Ukraine: #Russia: #Rosatom: Trading with the enemy. Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/04/18/g7-members-announce-plan-to-reduce-nuclear-fuel-dependence-on-russia/
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS, I'm the World, I'm John Bachelors. |
| 0:07.0 | Germany's decision to close its three remaining nuclear energy plants delayed since the beginning |
| 0:13.6 | of the winter of 23 because of the uncertainty of energy supplies in harsh winter. |
| 0:21.2 | Nuclear energy was a component of the German network these many years, but the decision |
| 0:26.5 | made sometime before by Angela Merkel's government was to close it down to nuclear energy, |
| 0:33.1 | satisfying the greens as a coalition. |
| 0:35.5 | It's a lot of politics, however, at the same time we have news from the G7 that Ross |
| 0:42.5 | Adam, the nuclear energy and nuclear weapon, central position in Russia, formed in 2007. |
| 0:52.2 | Ross Adam is now to be sanctioned in some fashion or chastised in some fashion by the G7. |
| 0:58.6 | It is a moneymaker for Russia and therefore presumably connected to the invasion in Ukraine. |
| 1:05.4 | However, I welcome Henry Sikolsky, the executive director of the Non-proliferation Policy |
| 1:10.8 | Education Center because the irony here as I understand it Henry is that Ross Adam |
| 1:17.0 | has not been vitally sanctioned by G7 or the UN or NATO or the US because Ross Adam |
| 1:27.4 | contributes to the energy needs in Eastern Europe as well as in the United States. |
| 1:33.0 | The US buys uranium ore from Ross Adam Y because it's cheap and hungry France and Bulgaria |
| 1:40.5 | are three states mentioned in Europe that depend on Ross Adam. |
| 1:44.8 | So on the one hand we're sanctioning Russia for its natural gas and its oil but on the |
| 1:51.2 | other hand we're permitting Ross Adam to continue business as usual. |
| 1:55.4 | The official note is that Ross Adam has $250 billion on its order book. |
| 2:02.1 | May or may not be accurate but it is certainly true that Ross Adam is a moneymaker for the |
| 2:06.2 | Kremlin. |
| 2:07.2 | Can these things be brought together or are we just living with globalization? |
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