Russia wanted this control over their former Soviet republic, like they are trying with all former satellites and now they have it. The real reason Russia wanted this deal was to give Rosatom’s subsidiary the Uranium One’s very profitable uranium mines in Kazakhstan - the single largest producer of commercial uranium in the world. production has increased to about 5% of our total (see Campbell et al., 2017). They have been buying up mines and companies as fast as they can, especially outside the U.S., and their U.S. That is not to say Uranium One has been idle since that time. Any export would have to be approved on a case-by-case basis by the U.S. They do not possess a Nuclear Regulatory Commission export license. Theoretically, they could process 20% of our ore, but that has never happened.īesides, Russia can’t export any uranium they produce in the U.S. But they do have good milling capacity to process ore, if anyone gives it to them, which hadn’t happened in years. Uranium One couldn’t give these facilities away. facilities obtained by Russia produced almost nothing for years before this sale. The State Department and several government agencies on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States first unanimously approved the 2010 partial sale of Canadian mining company Uranium One to the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom, supposedly giving Moscow control of more than 20% of America’s uranium supply. The concern was that the FBI knew that Russian nuclear industry officials had engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to help Russian President, and world’s richest man, Vladimir Putin, increase his commercial nuclear ambitions inside the United States, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. To recap, in 2015, Breitbart News editor Peter Schweizer claimed that donations to the Clinton Foundation were behind the Obama Administration’s controversial 2010 deal that gave Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium interests.Īnd by large, we mean really, really small.īut any money going to the Clinton Foundation occurred years before this deal surfaced, and came from a fellow philanthropist, Canadian Frank Guistra, who had divested himself from uranium years before this Uranium One deal. If we had known then what we know now, we might not have approved the deal. The level of Russian interference in America, and globally, has only recently been appreciated and their attempts seem to be everywhere and to target everyone.
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