“Still, it’s somewhat disingenuous to say this uranium is now Russia’s, to do with what it pleases, or to
suggest that any amount of the uranium will end up in Iran. The current licenses – held by the US-based subsidiaries and
approved by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission –
do not allow exports from any U1H US facility. “
Does Russia Really Own 20% Of The US’ Uranium Reserves? | OilPrice.com
This was repeated over and over.
Yet in 2012 they were allowed to ship it out under another company’s license-
“No uranium produced at either facility may be exported,” the NRC declared in a November 2010 press release that announced that ARMZ, a subsidiary of the Russian state-owned Rosatom, had been approved to take ownership of the Uranium One mining firm and its American assets.
A year later, the nuclear regulator repeated the assurance in a letter to Sen.
John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican in whose state Uranium One operated mines.
Uranium One Inc. nor AMRZ holds a specific NRC export license. In order to export uranium from the United States, Uranium One Inc. or ARMZ would need to apply for and obtain a specific NRC license authorizing the exports of uranium for use in reactor fuel,” then-NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko wrote to Barrasso.
The NRC never issued an export license to the Russian firm, a fact so engrained in the narrative of the Uranium One controversy that it showed up in The Washington Post’s official fact-checker site this week. “We have noted repeatedly that extracted uranium
could not be exported by Russia without a license, which Rosatom does not have,” the Post reported on Monday, linking to the 2011 Barrasso letter.
Yet NRC memos reviewed by The Hill show that it did approve the shipment of yellowcake uranium — the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons — from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party.
Later, the Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe, government documents show.
NRC officials said they could not disclose the total amount of uranium that Uranium One exported because the information is proprietary. They did, however, say that the shipments only lasted from 2012 to 2014 and that they are unaware of any exports since then.
NRC officials told The Hill that Uranium One exports flowed from Wyoming to Canada and on to Europe between 2012 and 2014, and the approval involved a process with multiple agencies.
Rather than give Rosatom a direct export license — which would have raised red flags inside a Congress already suspicious of the deal — the NRC in 2012 authorized an amendment to an existing export license for a Paducah, Ky.-based trucking firm called RSB Logistics Services Inc. to simply add Uranium One to the list of clients whose uranium it could move to Canada.
The license, reviewed by The Hill, is dated March 16, 2012, and it increased the amount of uranium ore concentrate that RSB Logistics could ship to the Cameco Corp. plant in Ontario from 7,500,000 kilograms to 12,000,000 kilograms and added Uranium One to the “other parties to Export.”
The move escaped notice in Congress.
Officials at RSB, Cameco and Rosatom did not return repeated phone calls or emails seeking comment. “
Uranium One deal led to some exports to Europe, memos show
This was repeated over and over, but it was a lie, as they did get to ship it under another company’s license.
Honey, are you naive? It can be processed into weapons grade.
But now, let’s see you quit ignoring the fact they lied about it’s export, why don’t we?
No, you choose to ignore the fact the Dems lied about it. Period. End of story.
(Wow, a new budget for paid progressive posters must have been developed in light of all the recent revelations, to try to help tamp down their further destruction)
Uranium One deal led to some exports to Europe, memos show
The license, reviewed by The Hill, is dated March 16, 2012, and it increased the amount of uranium ore concentrate that RSB Logistics could ship to the Cameco Corp. plant in Ontario from 7,500,000 kilograms to 12,000,000 kilograms and added Uranium One to the “other parties to Export.”
The move escaped notice in Congress.
Officials at RSB, Cameco and Rosatom did not return repeated phone calls or emails seeking comment.
Uranium One's American arm, however, emailed a statement to The Hill on Wednesday evening confirming it did export uranium to Canada through the trucking firm and that 25 percent of that nuclear fuel eventually made its way outside North America to Europe and Asia, stressing all the exports complied with federal law.
“None of the US U308 product produced to date has been sold to non-US customers except for approximately 25% which was sold via book transfer at the conversion facilities to customers from Western Europe and Asia," executive Donna Wickers said. “Any physical export of the product from conversion facilities to non-US destinations is under the control of such customers and subject to NRC regulation.”
This one seems to believe that the only way you can build nuclear weapons is to get uranium from the USA? Somehow that never stopped Russia, China, France, Germany, the UK, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea. It won't stop anybody else either no matter who owns the companies that mine uranium in the United States. Capitalism says if you're buying them I'm selling. Get over it, Snowflake.
It's not weapons-grade. You make electricity from it not bombs. Stop wetting your panties over it.
What's the lie?