When will the U.S. lift restrictions on Russian uranium exports?
RIA Novosti 14/04/2006 16:54 MOSCOW, (RIA Novosti political commentator Pyotr Goncharov) Late last week Moscow hosted the fourth national energy forum on “Russia’s Fuel and Energy Sector in the 21st Century.” The forum organizers and guests agreed that nuclear industry had entered a period of renaissance, which is logical in view of the common intention to reduce the share of hydrocarbons in the global energy balance. However, participants in the roundtable that was held after the forum also pointed to certain “atavisms” in the development of the nuclear industry that do not fit the logic of constructive and equitable energy relations between Russia and the United States. Why the two countries? Russia is the world’s main provider of enriched uranium, and is likely to keep this position in the future, while the U.S. stubbornly upholds anti-dumping restrictions on the export of Russian uranium to the American market. Delegates from private U.S. consumers of uranium, who attended the roun
