Overview
- Greenpeace reports that 18% of France’s enriched uranium imports through September 2025 came from Russia, including re-enriched recycled uranium.
- In 2025, 49.9% of France’s natural uranium came from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, much of it moving through Russian territory under Rosatom’s control to Dunkirk or Rotterdam before reaching Orano facilities.
- The NGO says neither France nor the EU has ended commercial links with Rosatom and calls the nuclear trade “insupportable,” pressing for EU sanctions.
- The European nuclear sector remains outside existing EU sanctions on Russia, and talks on restricting Russian nuclear products have not produced a timetable.
- France imports all the uranium needed for its reactors, which supplied over 86% of EDF’s domestic electricity production in 2024, a dependence that shapes policy choices.