Greenpeace says French uranium being sent to Russia
The Greenpeace environment group said Sunday that France was sending reprocessed uranium to Russia for treatment so it can be reused, despite the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.
The group argued that while it was legal, the trade was “immoral” as many nations seek to step up sanctions on the Russian government over its invasion launched in 2022.
Greenpeace members on Saturday filmed the loading of about 10 containers with radioactive labels onto a cargo ship in the Channel port of Dunkirk, the NGO said.
The Panamanian-registered ship, the Mikhail Dudin, is regularly used to carry enriched or natural uranium from France to St Petersburg, according to Greenpeace.
But Saturday’s consignment was the first of reprocessed uranium to be observed for three years, it added.
“It is not illegal, but it is immoral,” Pauline Boyer,…
