Won’t supply of Australian uranium free-up Russia’s own uranium for military use?
No. Uranium is not a scarce commodity in Russia, Russia has the world’s sixth largest reserves of uranium. Russia has a significant surplus of weapons-grade uranium and has a long-standing program of down-blending weapons-grade uranium (equivalent to thousands of warheads) for use in civilian nuclear power plants. This program is currently a major source of uranium on the international market. Further, Russia announced in 1994 that it had ceased production of fissile material (plutonium and high enriched uranium) for nuclear weapons.
