US Power Grid Could Go Offline If Russia Stops Uranium Supply

The report says that the US power grid can be shut down by not replenishing its supply of Russian uranium that will be lights out.

This warning came after caution that if China stops exporting rare earth minerals of which it owns 90% of the world's supply. Without it, the US military-industrial complex cannot produce weapons and has a shortage.

Washington Could Cause US Demise

One of the consequences if Moscow gets serious and stops selling enriched uranium to US power firms would render many nuclear reactors offline for less than a year, reported Sputnik News.

According to an article in The Hill concerning Russia's nuclear power dominance, the price of electricity will be beyond current inflation, and not all places in the US will have power.

This report by former Department of Energy Under Secretary Paul Dabbar and Columbia University energy researcher Matt Bowen, nuclear power account for 20% or more of electricity produced in the US.

The US must import fuel for all 56 nuclear plants from Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.

Other states in Europe need Russia for uranium, like Finland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Turkey, who pay Rosatom for all their nuclear fuel, supply, milling, and enrichment, including building and maintaining modern nuclear reactors, cited Fars News.

Russia Could Cut Uranium Supply

No reason was given why Putin or Russia would starve the US and Europe of nuclear fuel, despite the Ukraine conflict, its business as usual with state firms Rosatom, Gazprom, and Rosneft are honoring contracts. Except for gas that needs Rubles as payment.

This March, a ban is mulled by the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said Moscow on Russian uranium supplies against US sanctions, but no decision yet though it will impact the US power grid terribly.

Russian leaders cannot understand why the western countries are considering minimizing energy exports which is sheer lunacy.

A month ago, Vladimir Putin lamented that the EU willingly committed to economic armageddon by getting less natural gas and destroying their economies but thought it was the bloc's choice to shoot themselves in the foot.

Joe Biden ushers in an economic disaster for America. The US president authored an executive order in March to ban Russian energy but kept nuclear fuel off the ban. This came about after intensive lobbying from the National Energy Institute, composed of a consortium of large US nuclear power generation companies.

Russian oil accounted for only 1% of US consumption, but its absence has significantly affected US energy prices, with gasoline prices achieving an all-time high of much more than $5 per gallon last week.

Biden is not held responsible for the crisis but Putin, US oil companies, the coronavirus, and even US aid to Ukraine, but not for his own government's failed policies. The US has no supply of its own and has needed uranium from Russia since the early 1990s.

In 1993 when then vice-president Al Gore and Viktor Chernomyrdin, the Russian premier, inked a deal for a twenty-year supply; worth $11.9 billion for 550 metric tons of high-grade uranium from Russian nuclear warheads.

These deliveries comprised 10% of all electricity generated in the United States in the next 15 years, totaling seven billion megawatt-hours.

Due to unwise decisions to sanction Russia and incite a proxy war in Ukraine, the US power grid is threatened by cutting off Russian uranium supplies, which will worsen the energy crisis.