The Arctic as a resource base
What’s wrong with Russia’s official documents on the Arctic.
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Publish date: May 5, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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Russia has an estimated 8,000 to 9,000 nuclear warheads, to be reduced to no more than 3,500 under the START II treaty between the United States and Russia. Russia’s hard-line parliament has refused to ratify the treaty despite President Boris Yeltsin’s urgings.
Mikhailov told Interfax that nearly 400 tons of highly enriched uranium has been removed from nuclear warheads. Already 18 tons of uranium have been sold to the United States.
Under an agreement between the two countries, Russia is to sell to the United States 500 tons of highly-enriched uranium from dismantled nuclear warheads – 40 percent of its stocks. The uranium is blended down from some 90% of enrichment to 4,4% – the level of enrichment suitable as fuel for nuclear power plants.
Mikhailov said his ministry plans to boost Russia’s 2 billion USD (1996) nuclear exports by 20%, through uranium export and construction of nuclear power stations in Iran, China and India.
What’s wrong with Russia’s official documents on the Arctic.
As uranium supplies from Russia fall under the shadow of potential sanctions, and while Ukraine’s allies look to wean themselves off nuclear fuel produced by Moscow’s Rosatom corporation, owners of left-for-dead mines in the US are looking to revive their deposits.
The European Union doubled its purchases of Russian nuclear fuel in 2023, data from Eurostat and the UN’s international trade service Comtrade show.
The output of Russian nuclear power plants in 2023 decreased by 2.8% compared to 2022. A decrease in output occurred for the first time in 10 years a...