A French nuclear power plant. Gilles Paire/Gilles Paire – stock.adobe.com
France supplies turbines and buys enriched uranium from Moscow.
Bruxelles
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had reason to celebrate on Tuesday in Brussels at the tenth session of the European Union-United States Energy Council, the first since the war in Ukraine. The head of American diplomacy welcomed the measures taken by the EU to reduce its consumption of Russian gas and was pleased that the United States had become the first supplier of the Twenty-Seven in liquefied natural gas (LNG). American LNG exports to the Old Continent have more than doubled (+140% in one year), to 56 billion m3 and represent 40% of the gas imported by ship into Europe.
The United States wants the EU’s energy ties with Russia to be further stretched. Next week, at a ministerial meeting of the G7 environment and climate in Japan, they will urge the Europeans to reduce their purchases of equipment or Russian civilian nuclear fuel and to diversify their supplies of uranium.
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