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Publish date: March 15, 2024

Europe doubled its import of Russian nuclear fuel for 2023, data say

The European Union doubled its purchases of Russian nuclear fuel in 2023, data from Eurostat and the UN’s international trade service Comtrade show.

A Bellona analysis of cross-border trade operations under the customs code 840130 — the designation for unirradiated fuel assemblies or fuel elements — shows a more than twofold increase in imports of fresh nuclear fuel to EU countries in financial terms. If EU countries paid a total of €280 million for Russian nuclear fuel in 2022, that more than doubled to €686 million for last year. In physical terms, this represents an increase from 314 tons of nuclear fuel to 573 tons.