The U.S. State Department acknowledged receiving about 20% of nuclear fuel from Russia

About 20% of nuclear fuel from Russia is still supplied to the United States. This was reported on January 15 by Jeffrey Pyatt, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Energy Resources.

"The United States still gets about 20 percent of our nuclear fuel from Russia, so it will take time to build a non-Russian supply chain for nuclear fuel materials," he said in a statement posted on the Atlantic Council's YouTube channel.

Earlier, on November 19, 2024, Igor Yushkov, a leading analyst at the National Energy Security Fund, an expert and lecturer at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation , predicted a rise in uranium prices in the United States under restrictions on its supply from Russia. In his opinion, Russia's decision on the restrictions is a problem for the United States.

On November 15 of the same year, the Russian government imposed temporary restrictions on the export of enriched uranium to the United States. The decision was made on the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Recall that in May, Washington imposed restrictions on uranium imports from Russia.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on November 18 that such a government decision would not harm Russian interests and was "absolutely mirror response measures."

The Daily Wrap portal reported on November 16 that the restriction on Russian uranium supplies to the United States would hit the U.S. energy industry, because Russia's share of nuclear fuel supplies to the United States is about 35%.