Podcasts about Rosatom

Die kwessie van ‘n kernkragsentrale en Rusland se Rosatom wat na Namibië kyk as kernkragvennoot bly in die nuus. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het gepraat met dr. Leake Hangala, voormalige hoof van NamPower, wat sê Namibië moet geen land uitsluit wat goed sal wees vir sy kernkrag-ambisies nie.

Die kwessie van ‘n kernkragsentrale weier om die nuustoneel te verlaat. Nou het die Russiese uraan-reus, Rosatom, bevestig dat hy wel na Namibië kyk as kernkragvennoot. Sputnik Afrika het ‘n onderhoud met Rosatom Sentraal- en Suidelike Afrika se uitvoerende hoof Ryan Collyer gevoer. Collyer sê daar is baie redes hoekom Namibië ‘n goeie vennoot sal wees.

Business Insider Africa berig besprekings is aan die gang tussen Namibië en Rusland se Rosatom vir die oprigting van 'n kernkragsentrale. Ryan Collyer, die uitvoerende hoof van Rosatom Sentraal- en Suidelike Afrika, is aangehaal dat hy sê hulle sien Namibië as 'n belowende vennoot in die kernkrag-veld. Uranium One in Namibië sê hulle is nie bewus van die besprekings nie, maar kan moontlik teen Vrydag of vroeg volgende week reaksie van Rosatom in Rusland kry. Die energieministerie wou nie kommentaar lewer nie en het vrae op skrif versoek, wat aangestuur is. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus sal terug rapporteer. Intussen het die energiekenner Chris Yelland gesê 'n kernkragsentrale vir Namibië is nie eintlik die regte ding nie.

Vladimir Poutine l'avait demandé officiellement dès le 21 février dernier. Un plan industriel a été lancé en mars pour une production à grande échelle pour 2030. Parfois rebaptisé « l'or blanc », le lithium est un matériau essentiel pour les batteries utilisées dans des appareils allant des smartphones et des ordinateurs portables aux véhicules électriques. Vladimir Poutine avait lancé son appel lors d'une conférence consacrée aux technologies de pointe à Moscou le 21 février dernier. « Nous n'exploitons toujours pas de lithium. Mais nous pouvons le faire. Et nous aurions pu même commencer à le faire il y a 10 ou 15 ans », avait-il déclaré.La Russie dispose en effet de ressources de lithium estimées à environ 1 million de tonnes en 2024 par l'United States Geological Survey (USGS). Cela fait d'elle le quatrième pays en Europe pour ses réserves, derrière l'Allemagne avec 3, 8 millions de tonnes, la République Tchèque, 1,3 million, et la Serbie, 1,2 million.Les sanctions ont tout changéDans le monde, en revanche, la Russie se classe très loin derrière les géants d'Amérique latine comme la Bolivie, dont les réserves sont estimées à 23 millions de tonnes, l'Argentine à 22 millions et le Chili à 11 millions. Jusqu'ici d'ailleurs, la Russie se préoccupait assez peu de l'exploitation de ce minerai et se reposait largement sur les importations. Les sanctions occidentales ont tout changé.Dans ce domaine comme dans tant d'autres, Moscou cherche à développer son autonomie et à passer de la production actuelle très limitée à une plus grande échelle, et ce, d'ici à cinq ans. La production de lithium en Russie se limite pour l'instant à 27 tonnes par an, elle est extraite comme sous-produit de l'exploitation d'émeraudes dans les montagnes de l'Oural.Trois nouvelles licences d'exploitationEn première ligne aujourd'hui, Polar Lithium, une coentreprise entre le géant russe des métaux Nornickel et la société publique d'énergie nucléaire Rosatom. Polar Lithium veut développer le gisement de Kolmozerskoye, le plus grand de Russie, situé dans la région de Mourmansk, au nord-ouest du pays.Le ministère des Ressources naturelles a délivré deux autres licences pour exploiter un autre gisement dans cette même région, ainsi qu'un autre dans celle de Touva, proche cette fois de la Mongolie. L'objectif est d'atteindre une production de 60 000 tonnes par an d'ici à 2030. Un calendrier qui semble très ambitieux selon les analystes miniers indépendants.À lire aussiL'Union européenne va autoriser près de 50 projets miniers en procédure accélérée

Mezinárodní reputace ruské státní korporace Rosatom – jednoho ze světových lídrů jaderné energetiky – značně utrpěla v roce 2022 v důsledku její účasti na obsazení ukrajinských jaderných elektráren. Sankce na ni ale uvaleny nebyly především proto, že Rosatom dlouhá léta posiloval svůj vliv na zahraniční partnery, píše v analýze nezávislého ruského vydání 7x7 Gorizontalnaja Rossija Konstantin Fomin, bývalý mediální koordinátor ruské pobočky Greenpeace.Všechny díly podcastu Svět ve 20 minutách můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Projekty Rosatomu wzmacniają rosyjskie wpływy w regionie i są częścią szerszej strategii utrzymania Azji Centralnej w orbicie wpływów Moskwy. Zapraszamy do rozmowy!Gościem dr Pawła Jaskuły był dr Jerzy Olędzki, ekspert Instytutu Boyma oraz dr Mariusz Marszewski, Center of Eastern Initiatives.

Cliquez ici pour accéder gratuitement aux articles lus de Mediapart : https://m.audiomeans.fr/s/P-UmoTbNLs En Ukraine, la centrale nucléaire est occupée depuis trois ans par les militaires russes. Rosatom, l'entreprise d'État russe, ne cache pas sa volonté de redémarrer les réacteurs. L'Agence internationale de l'énergie atomique, chargée de surveiller le site, joue un rôle ambigu. Un article de Jade Lindgaard publié lundi 10 mars et lu par Jérémy Zylberberg.

Ngày 15/01/2025, thủ tướng Phạm Minh Chính đã thông báo mục tiêu của Việt Nam là “hướng tới việc xây dựng xong Nhà máy điện hạt nhân Ninh Thuận trong 5 năm”, tức là 2030. Theo ông Phạm Minh Chính, yêu cầu cấp bách này là “để hướng tới năm 2030 kỷ niệm 100 năm thành lập Đảng”, Việt Nam sẽ có nhà máy điện hạt nhân đầu tiên, “góp phần đáp ứng nhu cầu điện sạch”, nhất là với mục tiêu tăng trưởng kinh tế đạt 2 con số, tăng trưởng điện theo dự báo “phải tăng từ 15-18%”. Vào năm 2009, Quốc Hội Việt Nam đã từng phê duyệt kế hoạch xây dựng hai nhà máy điện hạt nhân ở Ninh Thuận, với tổng cộng 4 lò phản ứng hạt nhân với tổng công suất 4.000 MW. Nhưng một phần do những quan ngại từ tai nạn hạt nhân Fukushima năm 2011 và một phần do khó khăn về ngân sách vào thời gian đó, vào năm 2016, Việt Nam đã phải quyết định ngưng dự án này lại. Nay, để bảo đảm an ninh năng lượng và thúc đẩy tăng trưởng kinh tế nhưng vẫn thực hiện được cam kết về chống biến đổi khí hậu, Việt Nam phải quay trở lại với các dự án điện hạt nhân.Nhưng trong khoảng thời gian 5 năm, khá ngắn ngủi, liệu Việt Nam có đủ khả năng để hoàn thành việc xây dựng nhà máy điện hạt nhân đầu tiên? Trả lời RFI Việt ngữ ngày 22/01/2025, giáo sư Phạm Duy Hiển, nguyên Viện trưởng Viện Nguyên tử Đà Lạt, không tin vào khả năng đó:"Xây nhà máy điện hạt nhân, nhất là với các lò phản ứng cở trên 1.000 MW, là rất phức tạp, phải qua rất nhiều công đoạn, các cọc mốc. Đầu tiên là có đối tác đưa hợp đồng cho mình; gần như là nói rất rõ là lò phản ứng loại gì, công suất bao nhiêu, tác động đến môi trường như thế nào v.v…, nhất là kinh phí để xây dựng. Nếu ta đồng ý thì có thể ký hợp đồng để khởi công.Từ khi ký hợp đồng khởi công đó cho đến lúc nhà máy chạy, phát điện được thường phải mất từ 7 đến 10 năm. Trước khi có mốc đầu tiên đó thì phải có giai đoạn chuẩn bị. Giống như là xây một cao ốc, trước hết phải xây các cọc để chống đỡ. Theo tổng kết của Cơ quan Năng lượng Nguyên tử Quốc  tế, phải có đủ 19 cọc, không thiếu cái nào. Cho nên, mọi việc ở đây là rất phức tạp, chứ không đơn giải như thế.Như hiện trạng của Việt Nam, cho đến lúc khởi công thì phải mất từ 3 đến 5 năm. Từ khởi công cho đến phát điện phải mất từ 7 đến 10 năm. Hiện nay, Rosatom của Nga đã xây dựng các nhà máy điện hạt nhân như thế ở rất nhiều nước. Ở châu Âu, họ xây cho Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, Hungary, sang đến Ai Cập, ở châu Á thì có Bangladesh. Tình trạng tương đối giống Việt Nam chính là Bangladesh, tức là không giàu có gì lắm và nhân lực thì đại khái là như vậy.Bangladesh bắt đầu khởi công là cuối 2017, đến nay là 2025 , tức là 8 năm xây dựng, vẫn chưa phát điện được. Tương tự như thế ở Ai Cập và Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ. Rosatom của Nga xây hết, công suất là trên 1.200 MW. Nga hiện nay là nước xuất khẩu điện hạt nhân lớn nhất thế giới và chất lượng lò phản ứng của Rosatom xây cho các nước đó rất là tốt. Phải đạt được một số cọc mốc đã, mà cọc mốc đầu tiên để từ đó khởi công công trình cho đến khi có điện thì phải mất ít nhất là 7 năm. Cơ sở hạ tầng là chính, rồi vấn đề quản trị kinh doanh, vấn đề môi trường của địa điểm xây nhà máy và nhất là hệ thống pháp quy. Chúng ta có hệ thống pháp quy hạt nhân để dùng cho các ứng dụng nhỏ, các ứng dụng chất phóng xạ và ion hóa thôi, nhưng chúng ta chưa có hệ thống pháp quy hạt nhân cho nhà máy điện hạt nhân. Có pháp quy ấy rồi, thì phải có những người đứng đầu pháp quy ấy. Cái đó còn khó khăn hơn nữa. Nói tóm lại, nói trong 5 năm nữa, tức năm 2030, sẽ có điện hạt nhân, theo tôi là phi lý."Về nhân lực, theo chính phủ, Việt Nam hiện đã có một đội ngũ khoảng 400 người trong lĩnh vực điện hạt nhân, nhưng dĩ nhiên là để có thể vận hành nhà máy điện hạt nhân đầu tiên, phải gấp rút đào tạo thêm nhân lực. Thủ tướng Phạm Minh Chính đã yêu cầu Tập đoàn Điện lực Việt Nam (EVN) và các cơ quan xác định rõ nhu cầu đào tạo và báo cáo, đề xuất ngay cho chính phủ. Về điểm này, giáo sư Phạm Duy Hiển nhấn mạnh:"Nhân lực để vận hành nhà máy thì đối tác phải có trách nhiệm đào tạo. Trong quá trình xây dựng 7, 8 năm như thế, mỗi năm đào tạo vài chục thì như thế cũng đủ. Nhưng vấn đề chính của nhân lực, đó chính là những người đứng đầu các cơ quan pháp quy để xét duyệt những cái họ đưa ra cho mình, thì không có.Việt Nam trước đây cũng biết như thế, cho nên ngay từ năm 2011, Nga đã đề nghị với Việt Nam là muốn có một nguồn nhân lực chủ chốt như thế, thì phải xây một trung tâm hạt nhân, với một lò phản ứng công suất tương đối lớn. Chúng ta đã vào cuộc rồi, mười mấy năm nay, trung tâm ấy đã được chọn địa điểm ở Đồng Nai, nhưng cho tới nay vẫn chưa khởi công được. Nhân lực trình độ cao phải qua rèn luyện, đào tạo trong nước, còn nhân lực để vận hành nhà máy thì phía đối tác phải lo.Ở đây, vấn đề khác nhau ở chổ: ta xây dựng và vận hành nhà máy hạt nhân với tư cách gì? Với tư cách là một người chủ quản, chứ không phải với tư cách một người mà họ nói thế nào thì nghe thế ấy. Cái đó là rất nguy hiểm.Tôi nhấn mạnh một lần nữa: Phải vận hành với tư cách người chủ quản của nhà máy, tức là phải làm chủ hoàn toàn, mà muốn như thế thì phải có đủ hệ thống pháp quy và đồng thời phải có những người thật giỏi để điều hành hệ thống pháp quy đó."Về nhiệm vụ chuẩn bị cơ sở hạ tầng, thủ tướng Phạm Minh Chính giao cho tỉnh Ninh Thuận làm chủ đầu tư, kêu gọi hợp tác công tư, thu hút đầu tư để khai thác dân dụng sân bay Thành Sơn (Ninh Thuận), đồng thời ông yêu cầu chính quyền tỉnh này thực hiện việc giải tỏa để lấy đất xây nhà máy điện hạt nhân..Địa điểm chọn đầu tư dự án nhà máy điện hạt nhân Ninh Thuận 1 và 2 thuộc xã Vĩnh Hải và Phước Dinh (tỉnh Ninh Thuận) “trước đây đã được các đơn vị tư vấn trong và ngoài nước khảo sát, đánh giá kỹ”.Hiện chưa biết là Việt Nam sẽ xây nhà máy điện hạt nhân đầu tiên với sự trợ giúp của nước nào. Về hợp tác quốc tế thì thủ tướng Phạm Minh Chính hôm 15/01 chỉ cho biết là Việt Nam sẽ hợp tác với Cơ quan Năng lượng Nguyên tử Quốc tế (IAEA).Nhưng có một sự trùng hợp về thời điểm đáng chú ý, đó là, nhân chuyến thăm Việt Nam của thủ tướng Nga Mikhail Mishustin vào giữa tháng 1 vừa qua, Việt Nam và Nga vừa ký một thỏa thuận hợp tác về năng lượng hạt nhân  Khi hội kiến thủ tướng Phạm Minh Chính, tại Hà Nội ngày 13/01/2025, tổng giám đốc tập đoàn năng lượng hạt nhân Rosatom của Nga, ông Alexey Likhachev, cho biết Rosatom sẵn sàng hỗ trợ Việt Nam xây dựng nhà máy điện hạt nhân, thành lập trung tâm hạt nhân mới, chuyển giao công nghệ, nội địa hóa sản phẩm hạt nhân và phát triển khoa học cũng như công nghiệp hạt nhân “với tầm nhìn lâu dài lên đến hàng trăm năm.” Như vậy; phải chăng đối tác chính của Việt Nam trong dự án xây nhà máy điện hạt nhân đầu tiên sẽ là Nga? Giáo sư Phạm Duy Hiển ghi nhận:"Khi anh xây với một đối tác nào rồi, thì anh sẽ tiếp tục làm việc với đối tác đó. Vì Việt Nam sẽ tiếp tục thiếu điện và để có thể đạt được mục tiêu netzero năm 2050, nên ta sẽ phải xây không chỉ 1 lò 1.200 MW, mà phải xây nhiều lò. Đối tác đó phải là đối tác có thể giúp chuyển giao công nghệ cho Việt Nam. Cho nên việc chọn đối tác là rất quan trọng.Cả Nga và Nhật đều đã hứa làm nhà máy điện ở hai huyện của tỉnh Ninh Thuận. Gần đây, thông tin chủ yếu chỉ thấy từ phía Nga, bởi vì thủ tướng Nga và đại điện Rosatom đã sang Việt Nam. Còn phía Nhật thì chưa thấy nói đến chuyện tiếp tục như thế nào.Tôi nghĩ mình đã hứa trước với hai nước đó rồi, thì thế nào Nhật cũng sẽ xây và nếu Nhật xây thì họ cũng sẽ xây lò phản ứng thế hệ 3+ giống Nga."Chính phủ Hà Nội ngày 04/02/205 đã thông báo trong tháng 2 này sẽ thảo luận với các đối tác ngoại quốc về dự án phát triển hai nhà máy điện hạt nhân đầu tiên của Việt Nam. Các đối tác đó bao gồm Nga, Nhật Bản, Hàn Quốc, Pháp và Mỹ. Theo thông báo của chính phủ, tập đoàn điện lực Việt Nam EVN và tập đoàn dầu khí PetroVietnam đã được chỉ định là các nhà đầu tư cho hai nhà máy điện hạt nhân đầu tiên. Trước đây, nhiều người nghĩ rằng đối với những nước như Việt Nam, xây các lò phản ứng công suất thấp là khả thi hơn, nhưng theo giáo sư Phạm Duy Hiển, do nhu cầu về điện của Việt Nam nay quá lớn và quá cấp bách, Việt Nam bắt buộc phải hướng tới các lò phản ứng thế hệ 3+.

Ngày 15/01/2025, thủ tướng Phạm Minh Chính đã thông báo mục tiêu của Việt Nam là “hướng tới việc xây dựng xong Nhà máy điện hạt nhân Ninh Thuận trong 5 năm”, tức là 2030. Theo ông Phạm Minh Chính, yêu cầu cấp bách này là “để hướng tới năm 2030 kỷ niệm 100 năm thành lập Đảng”, Việt Nam sẽ có nhà máy điện hạt nhân đầu tiên, “góp phần đáp ứng nhu cầu điện sạch”, nhất là với mục tiêu tăng trưởng kinh tế đạt 2 con số, tăng trưởng điện theo dự báo “phải tăng từ 15-18%”. Vào năm 2009, Quốc Hội Việt Nam đã từng phê duyệt kế hoạch xây dựng hai nhà máy điện hạt nhân ở Ninh Thuận, với tổng cộng 4 lò phản ứng hạt nhân với tổng công suất 4.000 MW. Nhưng một phần do những quan ngại từ tai nạn hạt nhân Fukushima năm 2011 và một phần do khó khăn về ngân sách vào thời gian đó, vào năm 2016, Việt Nam đã phải quyết định ngưng dự án này lại. Nay, để bảo đảm an ninh năng lượng và thúc đẩy tăng trưởng kinh tế nhưng vẫn thực hiện được cam kết về chống biến đổi khí hậu, Việt Nam phải quay trở lại với các dự án điện hạt nhân.Nhưng trong khoảng thời gian 5 năm, khá ngắn ngủi, liệu Việt Nam có đủ khả năng để hoàn thành việc xây dựng nhà máy điện hạt nhân đầu tiên? Trả lời RFI Việt ngữ ngày 22/01/2025, giáo sư Phạm Duy Hiển, nguyên Viện trưởng Viện Nguyên tử Đà Lạt, không tin vào khả năng đó:"Xây nhà máy điện hạt nhân, nhất là với các lò phản ứng cở trên 1.000 MW, là rất phức tạp, phải qua rất nhiều công đoạn, các cọc mốc. Đầu tiên là có đối tác đưa hợp đồng cho mình; gần như là nói rất rõ là lò phản ứng loại gì, công suất bao nhiêu, tác động đến môi trường như thế nào v.v…, nhất là kinh phí để xây dựng. Nếu ta đồng ý thì có thể ký hợp đồng để khởi công.Từ khi ký hợp đồng khởi công đó cho đến lúc nhà máy chạy, phát điện được thường phải mất từ 7 đến 10 năm. Trước khi có mốc đầu tiên đó thì phải có giai đoạn chuẩn bị. Giống như là xây một cao ốc, trước hết phải xây các cọc để chống đỡ. Theo tổng kết của Cơ quan Năng lượng Nguyên tử Quốc  tế, phải có đủ 19 cọc, không thiếu cái nào. Cho nên, mọi việc ở đây là rất phức tạp, chứ không đơn giải như thế.Như hiện trạng của Việt Nam, cho đến lúc khởi công thì phải mất từ 3 đến 5 năm. Từ khởi công cho đến phát điện phải mất từ 7 đến 10 năm. Hiện nay, Rosatom của Nga đã xây dựng các nhà máy điện hạt nhân như thế ở rất nhiều nước. Ở châu Âu, họ xây cho Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, Hungary, sang đến Ai Cập, ở châu Á thì có Bangladesh. Tình trạng tương đối giống Việt Nam chính là Bangladesh, tức là không giàu có gì lắm và nhân lực thì đại khái là như vậy.Bangladesh bắt đầu khởi công là cuối 2017, đến nay là 2025 , tức là 8 năm xây dựng, vẫn chưa phát điện được. Tương tự như thế ở Ai Cập và Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ. Rosatom của Nga xây hết, công suất là trên 1.200 MW. Nga hiện nay là nước xuất khẩu điện hạt nhân lớn nhất thế giới và chất lượng lò phản ứng của Rosatom xây cho các nước đó rất là tốt. Phải đạt được một số cọc mốc đã, mà cọc mốc đầu tiên để từ đó khởi công công trình cho đến khi có điện thì phải mất ít nhất là 7 năm. Cơ sở hạ tầng là chính, rồi vấn đề quản trị kinh doanh, vấn đề môi trường của địa điểm xây nhà máy và nhất là hệ thống pháp quy. Chúng ta có hệ thống pháp quy hạt nhân để dùng cho các ứng dụng nhỏ, các ứng dụng chất phóng xạ và ion hóa thôi, nhưng chúng ta chưa có hệ thống pháp quy hạt nhân cho nhà máy điện hạt nhân. Có pháp quy ấy rồi, thì phải có những người đứng đầu pháp quy ấy. Cái đó còn khó khăn hơn nữa. Nói tóm lại, nói trong 5 năm nữa, tức năm 2030, sẽ có điện hạt nhân, theo tôi là phi lý."Về nhân lực, theo chính phủ, Việt Nam hiện đã có một đội ngũ khoảng 400 người trong lĩnh vực điện hạt nhân, nhưng dĩ nhiên là để có thể vận hành nhà máy điện hạt nhân đầu tiên, phải gấp rút đào tạo thêm nhân lực. Thủ tướng Phạm Minh Chính đã yêu cầu Tập đoàn Điện lực Việt Nam (EVN) và các cơ quan xác định rõ nhu cầu đào tạo và báo cáo, đề xuất ngay cho chính phủ. Về điểm này, giáo sư Phạm Duy Hiển nhấn mạnh:"Nhân lực để vận hành nhà máy thì đối tác phải có trách nhiệm đào tạo. Trong quá trình xây dựng 7, 8 năm như thế, mỗi năm đào tạo vài chục thì như thế cũng đủ. Nhưng vấn đề chính của nhân lực, đó chính là những người đứng đầu các cơ quan pháp quy để xét duyệt những cái họ đưa ra cho mình, thì không có.Việt Nam trước đây cũng biết như thế, cho nên ngay từ năm 2011, Nga đã đề nghị với Việt Nam là muốn có một nguồn nhân lực chủ chốt như thế, thì phải xây một trung tâm hạt nhân, với một lò phản ứng công suất tương đối lớn. Chúng ta đã vào cuộc rồi, mười mấy năm nay, trung tâm ấy đã được chọn địa điểm ở Đồng Nai, nhưng cho tới nay vẫn chưa khởi công được. Nhân lực trình độ cao phải qua rèn luyện, đào tạo trong nước, còn nhân lực để vận hành nhà máy thì phía đối tác phải lo.Ở đây, vấn đề khác nhau ở chổ: ta xây dựng và vận hành nhà máy hạt nhân với tư cách gì? Với tư cách là một người chủ quản, chứ không phải với tư cách một người mà họ nói thế nào thì nghe thế ấy. Cái đó là rất nguy hiểm.Tôi nhấn mạnh một lần nữa: Phải vận hành với tư cách người chủ quản của nhà máy, tức là phải làm chủ hoàn toàn, mà muốn như thế thì phải có đủ hệ thống pháp quy và đồng thời phải có những người thật giỏi để điều hành hệ thống pháp quy đó."Về nhiệm vụ chuẩn bị cơ sở hạ tầng, thủ tướng Phạm Minh Chính giao cho tỉnh Ninh Thuận làm chủ đầu tư, kêu gọi hợp tác công tư, thu hút đầu tư để khai thác dân dụng sân bay Thành Sơn (Ninh Thuận), đồng thời ông yêu cầu chính quyền tỉnh này thực hiện việc giải tỏa để lấy đất xây nhà máy điện hạt nhân..Địa điểm chọn đầu tư dự án nhà máy điện hạt nhân Ninh Thuận 1 và 2 thuộc xã Vĩnh Hải và Phước Dinh (tỉnh Ninh Thuận) “trước đây đã được các đơn vị tư vấn trong và ngoài nước khảo sát, đánh giá kỹ”.Hiện chưa biết là Việt Nam sẽ xây nhà máy điện hạt nhân đầu tiên với sự trợ giúp của nước nào. Về hợp tác quốc tế thì thủ tướng Phạm Minh Chính hôm 15/01 chỉ cho biết là Việt Nam sẽ hợp tác với Cơ quan Năng lượng Nguyên tử Quốc tế (IAEA).Nhưng có một sự trùng hợp về thời điểm đáng chú ý, đó là, nhân chuyến thăm Việt Nam của thủ tướng Nga Mikhail Mishustin vào giữa tháng 1 vừa qua, Việt Nam và Nga vừa ký một thỏa thuận hợp tác về năng lượng hạt nhân  Khi hội kiến thủ tướng Phạm Minh Chính, tại Hà Nội ngày 13/01/2025, tổng giám đốc tập đoàn năng lượng hạt nhân Rosatom của Nga, ông Alexey Likhachev, cho biết Rosatom sẵn sàng hỗ trợ Việt Nam xây dựng nhà máy điện hạt nhân, thành lập trung tâm hạt nhân mới, chuyển giao công nghệ, nội địa hóa sản phẩm hạt nhân và phát triển khoa học cũng như công nghiệp hạt nhân “với tầm nhìn lâu dài lên đến hàng trăm năm.” Như vậy; phải chăng đối tác chính của Việt Nam trong dự án xây nhà máy điện hạt nhân đầu tiên sẽ là Nga? Giáo sư Phạm Duy Hiển ghi nhận:"Khi anh xây với một đối tác nào rồi, thì anh sẽ tiếp tục làm việc với đối tác đó. Vì Việt Nam sẽ tiếp tục thiếu điện và để có thể đạt được mục tiêu netzero năm 2050, nên ta sẽ phải xây không chỉ 1 lò 1.200 MW, mà phải xây nhiều lò. Đối tác đó phải là đối tác có thể giúp chuyển giao công nghệ cho Việt Nam. Cho nên việc chọn đối tác là rất quan trọng.Cả Nga và Nhật đều đã hứa làm nhà máy điện ở hai huyện của tỉnh Ninh Thuận. Gần đây, thông tin chủ yếu chỉ thấy từ phía Nga, bởi vì thủ tướng Nga và đại điện Rosatom đã sang Việt Nam. Còn phía Nhật thì chưa thấy nói đến chuyện tiếp tục như thế nào.Tôi nghĩ mình đã hứa trước với hai nước đó rồi, thì thế nào Nhật cũng sẽ xây và nếu Nhật xây thì họ cũng sẽ xây lò phản ứng thế hệ 3+ giống Nga."Chính phủ Hà Nội ngày 04/02/205 đã thông báo trong tháng 2 này sẽ thảo luận với các đối tác ngoại quốc về dự án phát triển hai nhà máy điện hạt nhân đầu tiên của Việt Nam. Các đối tác đó bao gồm Nga, Nhật Bản, Hàn Quốc, Pháp và Mỹ. Theo thông báo của chính phủ, tập đoàn điện lực Việt Nam EVN và tập đoàn dầu khí PetroVietnam đã được chỉ định là các nhà đầu tư cho hai nhà máy điện hạt nhân đầu tiên. Trước đây, nhiều người nghĩ rằng đối với những nước như Việt Nam, xây các lò phản ứng công suất thấp là khả thi hơn, nhưng theo giáo sư Phạm Duy Hiển, do nhu cầu về điện của Việt Nam nay quá lớn và quá cấp bách, Việt Nam bắt buộc phải hướng tới các lò phản ứng thế hệ 3+.

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Le dernier plan de développement du nucléaire publié il y a quatre mois aux États-Unis prévoit le triplement des capacités de production d'ici à 2050 dans le pays. Sera-t-il maintenu en l'état par Donald Trump ? Et quelles conséquences pourraient avoir son retour au pouvoir sur la production et les importations d'uranium ? Républicains et démocrates, ont réussi à trouver un terrain d'entente ces dernières années sur les grands axes d'une relance de la production. Le retour de Donald Trump pourrait cependant faciliter un peu plus la levée de moratoires sur l'exploitation dans certains États, via une baisse des normes environnementales, suggère le dernier rapport publié par l'Observatoire de la sécurité des flux et des matières énergétiques (Osfme) et coordonné par l'Institut des relations internationales et stratégiques (Iris). Le nouveau président est attendu également sur une hausse des droits de douane de 10% à 20% sur les importations de minerai radioactif. L'uranium chinois est lui déjà taxé à 25% depuis l'année dernière, mais le volume importé n'est pas significatif, explique Teva Meyer, chercheur associé à l'Iris, et co-auteur du rapport, et la mesure est sans conséquence aux États-Unis. Des capacités de production en sommeil importantesLe pays est le plus gros consommateur d'uranium, mais toujours aussi dépendant de l'extérieur pour son approvisionnement, ses premiers fournisseurs étant le Canada (27%), l'Australie (22%) et le Kazakhstan (22%).Les réacteurs américains absorbent à eux seuls le quart des besoins mondiaux – soit environ 18 000 tonnes. Et le secteur sera encore plus gourmand dans les années à venir, puisque les capacités nucléaires sont appelées à tripler d'ici à 2050, selon le plan de développement du nucléaire publié en septembre 2024 par le Département américain de l'Énergie.La production nationale, qui ne représente que quelques pourcents des besoins d'aujourd'hui, est largement insuffisante. Produire plus est capital pour les États-Unis, notamment pour le secteur de la défense, car l'uranium importé est conditionné à un usage civil. À écouter aussiLa hausse des prix de l'uranium redessine la carte des approvisionnementsL'uranium importé coûte toujours moins cherD'où la relance du secteur, notable depuis deux ans. Au premier semestre 2024, le pays a produit autant que sur toute l'année 2022, selon les données compilées par l'étude de l'Osfme. Près d'une vingtaine de sites d'extraction par technique ISL ont déjà leur licence et attendent d'avoir plus de visibilité sur les besoins à long terme, pour justifier des investissements. Relancer la production, c'est aussi pour le pays pouvoir moins dépendre de l'uranium russe. En 2023, 12% de l'approvisionnement américain en uranium naturel provenait du russe Rosatom. Officiellement, ces importations-là ne sont pas interdites, contrairement à celles d'uranium enrichi.Peut-être parce que l'uranium naturel importé, qu'il vienne de Russie, d'Ouzbékistan ou du Canada, coûte toujours moins cher que celui produit aux États-Unis.À lire aussiUranium: le géant russe Rosatom se retire de sites d'extraction au Kazakhstan et vend ses parts à la Chine

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Le prix de l'uranium a triplé depuis février 2020. Cette augmentation rend envisageable désormais l'exploitation de réserves qui n'étaient pas rentables avant. Progressivement, de nouveaux acteurs émergent et de nouvelles routes d'approvisionnement se dessinent. C'est ce que montre une étude de l'Observatoire de la sécurité des flux et des matières énergétiques La hausse des prix de l'uranium est d'abord un moteur pour les producteurs historiques, que sont le Kazakhstan, le Canada ou encore l'Australie, pour n'en citer que trois. Et puis il y a les États dont les réserves oubliées ou délaissées deviennent, au prix actuel du marché, beaucoup plus intéressantes. Des États qui « multiplient les changements réglementaires, les explorations et les politiques incitatives dans le but de lancer – ou relancer – la production nationale », assurent les auteurs du rapport publié par l'Observatoire de la sécurité des flux et des matières énergétiques et coordonné par l'Institut des relations internationales et stratégiques. Parmi ces pays, on peut citer le Brésil, qui a lancé en 2022 un grand programme de prospection et d'exploitation. La compagnie d'État INB (Industrias Nucleares do Brasil) a pris attache avec la Russie, l'Inde ou encore la Corée du Sud pour lancer de nouvelles campagnes d'exploration à travers le pays. Une seule mine est pour l'heure en activité – elle produit environ 500 tonnes –, mais les réserves identifiées seraient énormes. On parle de 300 000 tonnes, sachant que 75% du territoire brésilien n'a pas été exploré, relève l'étude de l'OSFME.Échéances prometteuses mais incertainesLa situation est moins évidente en Mongolie, mais le pays est vu comme un potentiel eldorado de l'uranium. On trouverait sur ce territoire les plus importantes ressources de minerai radioactif du monde. Plusieurs sociétés, dont le français Orano, sont positionnées et espèrent lancer leurs opérations d'ici 2030.Il y a également le Kirghizistan qui vient de lever le moratoire sur l'exploration de l'uranium instauré il y a cinq ans, et la Tanzanie, qui développe ses ressources avec la Russie comme partenaire privilégié. Quatre pays qui pourraient permettre d'arriver à une production mondiale moins concentrée qu'aujourd'hui. Mais il s'agit de perspectives à long terme et encore incertaines, notent les auteurs de l'Iris.À lire aussiUranium: le Français Orano engage «un arbitrage international» contre le NigerCorridors au départ de l'Asie CentraleL'évolution du marché et l'entrée en guerre de la Russie en Ukraine ont, en parallèle, redessiné les routes : le Kazakhstan, premier producteur mondial, privilégie désormais les itinéraires qui ne traversent pas la Russie. En 2023, plus de 60% des exportations de Kazatomprom, la société d'État, vers le marché occidental ont pris le corridor qui passe par la mer Caspienne et qui connecte les principaux centres de production kazakhs à la Méditerranée.Une autre route est appelée également à devenir de plus en plus essentielle, pour assurer le commerce d'uranium entre le Kazakhstan et la Chine. La construction d'un entrepôt logistique dans la ville frontalière d'Alashankou d'ici 2026 matérialisera les nouvelles ambitions de ce corridor de l'uranium hautement stratégique entre les deux pays.À lire aussiUranium: le géant russe Rosatom se retire de sites d'extraction au Kazakhstan et vend ses parts à la Chine

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Der Aargauer Energiekonzern Axpo ist vertraglich nach wie vor an Rosatom gebunden. Dies geht aus der Beantwortung eines Vorstosses aus dem Grossen Rat hervor. Wie viel Geld in den letzten Jahren von der Axpo zum staatlichen russischen Konzern geflossen ist, bleibt geheim. Weitere Themen: · Die Stadt Aarau hat Grundeigentümerinnen und Grundeigentümern fehlerhafte Rechnungen geschickt. Es geht um Verfügungen und Gebührenrechnungen fürs Abwasser. · Die Aargauer Regierung möchte mit 5.5 Millionen Franken die Ammoniakemmissionen der Landwirtschaft verringern. · Der FC Aarau löst den Vertrag mit seinem Stürmer Emmanuel Ernest auf. Dieser war erst im Sommer ins Brügglifeld gewechselt. · Die reformierte Kirchgemeinde Murgenthal hat finanzielle Probleme. Deshalb wird nun die Kirche weniger geheizt und über eine Fusion nachgedacht.

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Preview: Rosatom: Conversation about Russia avoiding sanctions by using China as a cutout to sell its ore to the US that is replaced by the sanctioned Russian ore -- leads to the question of demand, is it growing for the tech needs of more and more electricity for AI? More tonight. 1900 Peking

PREVIEW: ROSATOM: US NUCLEAR POWER FLEET Conversation with colleague Henry Sokolski of NPEC regarding the fact that the US ban on purchasing enriched uranium from Russia's ROSATOM has exceptions that mean the purchasing continues. More details later in the new week. 1890 Bank run

Les petits réacteurs nucléaires modulaires (SMR) sont imaginés comme le futur de l'énergie en Afrique. Sur le continent, où la moitié de la population n'a pas accès à l'électricité et où l'industrialisation est toujours à la peine, de nombreux contrats ont été récemment signés. On assiste à une ruée vers les SMR. Il y a bientôt un an, le Mali et le Burkina Faso ont signé des accords de coopération avec le russe Rosatom. Le Ghana a choisi une société américaine Regnum Technology fin août. D'autres projets sont toujours au stade d'annonces notamment en Afrique du Sud et au Nigeria. Les partisans des SMR en vantent les qualités : une révolution technologique censée banaliser le recours à l'énergie nucléaire. Un moyen de décarbonner vite fait bien fait sa production d'électricité. Sans les retards, explosion des coûts et autres dysfonctionnements des grands réacteurs.Des promesses mais peu de concretDifficile d'obtenir des références parce que les SMR n'existent pour l'instant quasiment nulle part. Il y en a deux en Russie, dont un sur une barge qui alimente en électricité une petite ville arctique, un en Chine et un quatrième en construction en Argentine. C'est une technologie dont on parle énormément depuis maintenant une vingtaine d'années mais qui n'est pas vraiment encore en fonctionnement au service d'une population. L'institut d'économie de l'énergie d'analyses financières basé aux États-Unis a récemment publié un rapport, les SMR y sont jugés trop chers, trop lents, et trop risqués.Des coûts plus importants que prévuExemple avec les SMR russes dont les coûts de construction ont quadruplé. C'est encore plus criant avec l'exemple argentin. Le CAREM 25 un réacteur de recherche de 25 MégaWatts conçut pour servir de prototype. Les coûts ont grimpé de 600% depuis le début des travaux sur le projet en 2013. Le risque pour les États : c'est de se retrouver avec des dépassements faramineux.D'autant que les SMR existant n'ont pas été rapidement opérationnels. Des 3 à 4 ans de construction prévus, on est passé à 12/13 ans pour les 4 réacteurs russes chinois et argentins. Le modèle économique des SMR repose notamment sur leur production industrielle... C'est encore loin d'être le cas assurent certains experts.Quelle sûreté pour ces réacteurs ?C'est un des arguments des pro-SMR. Il seraient plus sûrs, leur structure hermétique exclurait tout risque de fusion du cœur et donc de fuite de produit radioactif. Les experts s'inquiètent tout de même d'un point de vue sécuritaire. Qui surveillerait ces équipements dans des zones en proie à des conflits armés ? La formation d'ingénieurs par des acteurs du nucléaire civil implique d'autres conséquences. Le physicien Harry Bernas explique dans son dernier ouvrage Les merveilleux nuages que les SMR sont aussi un moyen pour les États « d'accéder au nucléaire militaire à plus ou moins bas bruit ».

Ce matin, les journalistes et experts de RFI répondaient à vos questions sur la construction d'une centrale nucléaire russe au Burkina Faso et les débats sur la qualité de l'eau de la Seine durant les Jeux olympiques de Paris 2024. Sénégal : une série populaire suspendue pour propos jugés outranciers Au Sénégal, la série populaire Chez Jojo, diffusée sur la chaîne nationale TFM, a été suspendue pendant deux semaines par le Conseil national de régulation de l'audiovisuel (CNRA) en raison d'injures jugées « d'une extrême gravite ». La série pourrait-elle être sujette à des modifications ? Cette suspension s'inscrit-elle dans un contexte sénégalais de régulation des médias et de la liberté d'expression ? Avec Gwendal Lavina, correspondant de RFI à Dakar.Nucléaire : la Russie prête à s'implanter au Burkina Faso L'entreprise russe Rosatom, géant nucléaire, était en visite au Burkina Faso afin de poursuivre les discussions sur le projet de construction d'une centrale nucléaire dans le pays ouest-africain. Quels intérêts les deux pays trouvent-ils à s'accorder sur un tel projet ? Le Burkina Faso a-t-il aujourd'hui des moyens suffisants pour recevoir une construction d'une telle ampleur dans son pays ? Avec Emmanuelle Galichet, enseignante-chercheure en Physique nucléaire au Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam) à Paris.JO 2024 : la qualité de l'eau de la Seine remise en question Malgré l'assainissement pour les Jeux olympiques de Paris 2024, les données de la qualité de l'eau de la Seine sont restées insuffisantes. Pourquoi cette mauvaise qualité de l'eau persiste-t-elle malgré les 1,4 milliard d'euros investis par l'État pour dépolluer la Seine ? Les épreuves de triathlon avaient été annulées mais déplacées le lendemain après une amélioration de la qualité de la Seine. Comment a-t-elle pu s'améliorer aussi rapidement, en l'espace de 24 heures ? Avec Simon Rozé, chef du service environnement de RFI.

GOOD EVENING: The show beginsin Pennsylvania, discussing with Salena Zito the political lanscape for the popular young Governor Josh Shapiro of Montgomery County.... CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-915 #KeystoneReport: Josh Shapiro needs a full term before superstardom. Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post, SalenaZito.comhttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3079107/republican-chairman-says-party-is-ready-to-handle-any-democratic-nominee/ https://6abc.com/post/2024-election-josh-shapiro-president-joe-biden/15054618/ 915-930 #LANCASTER REPORT: Hot air balloon descending and a giant Black Bear perusing. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://lancasteronline.com/news/politics/lancaster-county-republicans-divided-over-pa-s-new-47-6b-state-budget/article_78a901ea-4089-11ef-8aec-272c41415596.html 930-945 #SCOTUS: The opioid decision satisfies no one but the Sacklers. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institutionhttps://www.hoover.org/research/upending-sackler-bankruptcy 945-1000 #POTUS #SCOTUS: Amendment to set age limits for office. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institutionhttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/us/politics/hakeem-jeffries-biden-democrats.html SECOND HOUR 10-1015 #PacificWatch: #VegasReport: Elvis Presley impersonators in a heat wave. @JCBlisshttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/us/las-vegas-heat-houston-power.html 1015-1030 #ITALY: Ravel's Bolero in San Marco Square. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_San_Marco 1030-1045 1/2: ##EDUCATION: University faculties are one-sided & What is to be done? Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/07/07/roots_of_and_remedies_to_americas_illiberal_education_151212.html 1045-1100 1/2: ##EDUCATION: University faculties are one-sided & What is to be done? Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/07/07/roots_of_and_remedies_to_americas_illiberal_education_151212.html THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 1/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides https://www.amazon.com/Wide-Sea-Imperial-Ambition-Contact/dp/0385544766/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.xvSnWMwZwkRk3nB_oha-u7YL0k9kTC4voIQCoSWDz75eZXBRk_ZvRqUZ_P6pMaemKHJ8AhEdiyCpLrikQsp9iSIHNpX0v0n71kJqmCUW1VujrRMuDnenOyoWd5NtaDroImV4hSJ-hXf41L0HQmBS2q4Ws_PUqdVAXpvxskDgbzkPGE54c4xCqXxznyoRsahmmC7zXsNKkmipQCOKWZt728zHdG1ntVV4xSjkKJdX0v4.qQvWTGgLh4U5mw9t7ELNeecNVMkHQl35VNFyULPNX4g&qid=1720822146&sr=8-1 1115-1130 2/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides 1130-1145 3/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides 1145-1200 4/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 #RUSSIA: #TURKEY: #NATO: US seeks to compete with ROSATOM in Istanbul. Andrea Striker, FDDhttps://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/07/10/u-s-considers-nuclear-cooperation-with-turkey-as-congress-tees-up-sanctions/ 1215-1230 #COLOMBIA: Lawfare and M-19. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/foreign-lawfare-comes-to-u-s-courts-legal-courts-politics-latin-america-colombia-cc034b83?st=52c85gk1lsps7gy&reflink=article_gmail_share 1230-1245 SPACEX: Rare fail. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-launch-experiences-a-failure-of-upper-stage/ 1245-100 am WEBB: Exoplanet with a nitrogen atmosphere. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/webb-an-exoplanet-in-the-habitable-zone-with-a-possible-nitrogen-co2-atmosphere-and-water-ocean/ 1945 Lancaster County

#RUSSIA: #TURKEY: #NATO: US seeks to compete with ROSATOM in Istanbul. Andrea Striker, FDD https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/07/10/u-s-considers-nuclear-cooperation-with-turkey-as-congress-tees-up-sanctions/ 1908 Turkey

The United States and Turkey are reportedly discussing the possibility of US companies building nuclear reactors in Turkey. This is seen as part of an effort to help Ankara move away from Russia, at the same time as Russia's state-owned nuclear monopoly, Rosatom, is building a nuclear energy plant in Turkey at Akkuyu. While Washington looks like it is dangling the possibility of cooperation in front of Ankara, Congress is preparing legislation that would sanction Rosatom that could also push the administration to impose sanctions on Turkish entities as well. Andrea Stricker, a research fellow and deputy director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program, joins Thanos Davelis to look into these reports, and break down how this legislation could complicate US-Turkey ties.You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:U.S. Considers Nuclear Cooperation With Turkey as Congress Tees Up SanctionsTurkey, US in talks on nuclear plant projects, Turkish official saysMitsotakis on CNN: Europe cannot rely only on US for defenseAlbania's supreme court upholds Beleri verdict

Debatte duur voort oor of Namibië kernenergie moet nastreef. Die parlementêre staande komitee oor natuurlike hulpbronne beveel 'n kernkragsentrale aan, om die land se ryk uraanbronne te benut deur plaaslike verryking. Rusland se staatsatomiese energiekorporasie, Rosatom, het ook planne aangekondig om moontlik 'n kernkragsentrale in Namibië te bou. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het gepraat met die uitvoerende hoof van die Omgwingskamer, dr. Chris Brown, wat 'n interessante opsie aanbied.

Le Congrès américain a profité du déblocage d'une enveloppe de 60 milliards de dollars à destination de l'Ukraine pour financer la relance de la production d'isotopes aux États-Unis. Ces produits de l'industrie nucléaire sont essentiels à de nombreux secteurs, de l'énergie à la recherche scientifique en passant par la production de médicaments et la médecine. Un marché aujourd'hui largement dominé par la Russie. Le vote, après plus d'un an et demi de tergiversations entre démocrates et républicains, d'un vaste plan d'aide des États-Unis à l'effort de guerre ukrainien a été beaucoup commenté cette semaine, mais une ligne du texte est largement passée inaperçue et a pourtant de quoi intriguer. Entre une dotation de 14 milliards pour fournir à l'Ukraine des armes et des munitions, et une autre de 9 milliards pour permettre le fonctionnement des institutions à Kiev, le texte voté successivement par la Chambre des représentants et le Sénat prévoit d'augmenter le budget du ministère de l'Énergie de 98 millions de dollars afin qu'il investisse « pour le développement de la production d'isotopes » sur le territoire américain. Le rapport avec l'Ukraine ne saute pas immédiatement aux yeux. Un premier indice : juste après cette ligne sur les isotopes, on trouve le déblocage de 150 millions de dollars pour préparer l'Ukraine à la perspective d'une attaque nucléaire sur son sol. Les isotopes ce sont des atomes avec des propriétés bien particulières, ils peuvent être stables ou radioactifs. Un exemple très connu : le carbone 14, utilisé en archéologie pour dater des objets ou des squelettes très anciens, est un isotope. Les isotopes existent à l'état naturel, mais ils peuvent aussi être créés de manière artificielle à l'aide d'accélérateurs de particules ou de centrales nucléaires. Ils servent dans l'industrie, dans l'énergie, pour la recherche scientifique, dans la production de médicaments, en médecine nucléaire. Ils sont notamment indispensables en imagerie médicale, pour diagnostiquer certains cancers par exemple. Il a même été question dans les années 1960 d'utiliser les isotopes pour relancer la production agricole en Afrique de l'Ouest.La Russie, acteur incontournable de la filière des isotopesMais pourquoi inclure cette disposition sur les isotopes dans le paquet d'aide à l'Ukraine ? En vérité, le Congrès américain n'a pas adopté une enveloppe de 60 milliards pour l'Ukraine, c'est un raccourci, mais une extension du budget des États-Unis « dans le contexte de la situation en Ukraine ». Ce qui ne veut pas dire que l'essentiel de cette somme ne servira pas à fournir directement ou indirectement à Kiev les munitions et les ressources dont elle a besoin, après tout le budget consacré aux isotopes représente à peine un millième de l'enveloppe totale.  À lire aussiGreenpeace accuse la France d'être «sous emprise» russe sur le dossier nucléaireMais la Russie domine aujourd'hui la chaîne de production des isotopes et des radioisotopes. Pour certains isotopes, elle est même le seul fournisseur au monde. L'invasion à grande échelle de l'Ukraine, deux ans après une première alerte liée à la pandémie de Covid-19, a fait prendre conscience aux Américains de leur dépendance vis-à-vis de Moscou sur ces produits sensibles et qui nécessitent d'être souvent remplacés. D'où cette ligne budgétaire au premier abord incongrue au milieu d'une liste de dépenses militaires.L'industrie nucléaire russe échappe encore aux sanctions occidentalesLa Russie, à travers Rosatom, le géant national du nucléaire, a continué – et continue encore – d'investir dans la production des isotopes, alors même que les vieux réacteurs européens, australien, sud-africain et canadien qui les produisaient déclinaient. Cette situation accentue encore la dépendance des Européens et des États-Unis vis-à-vis de Rosatom. Non seulement le géant nucléaire russe continue d'alimenter de 25 à 30% des centrales nucléaires européennes en uranium enrichi, mais Rosatom – et donc le gouvernement russe par extension – contrôle aussi les réacteurs de recherche qui produisent ces radio-isotopes.Cette double dépendance explique que Rosatom échappe encore aux sanctions occidentales décidées après février 2022. Pour les États-Unis, il s'agit d'un enjeu de sécurité nationale. Fort de ce soutien public, des entreprises privées ont déjà entrepris de relocaliser une partie de la production. Mais il faudra du temps, on ne relance pas un processus industriel nucléaire d'un claquement de doigts. Les spécialistes prédisent que cette dépendance pourrait durer au moins jusqu'à 2032.

Die landbouminister Calle Schlettwein hou voet by stuk dat daar geen permitte sal wees vir Uranium One alvorens die besoedelingsrisiko aangespreek word. Oontginningsregte naby Leonardville is reeds in 2019 toegeken aan Rusland se Rosatom-filiaal maar die landbouministerie het egter die vereiste mynpermit weerhou. Schlettwein sê die maatskappy se onttrekkingsmetode kan dalk besoedeling veroorsaak:

ROSATOM RULES: 1/4: The Case for Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future Paperback – April 3, 2023 by  Robert Zubrin  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Case-Nukes-Global-Warming-Magnificent/dp/1736386069/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=UeGVv&content-id=amzn1.sym.ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_p=ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_r=143-0258134-6610437&pd_rd_wg=sJV8b&pd_rd_r=0137d795-3a42-44c6-84c4-74819fbb82e3&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk The Case for Nukes is a unique book. In it, world-renowned nuclear and aerospace engineer Dr. Robert Zubrin explains how nuclear power works and how much it has to offer humanity. He debunks the toxic falsehoods that have been spread to dissuade us from using it by variously the ignorant, the fearful, the fanatical, and by cynical political operatives bought and paid for by competing interests. He tells about revolutionary developments in the field, including new reactor types that can be cheaply mass produced, that cannot be made to melt down no matter how hard their operators try, that use a new fuel called thorium far more plentiful than uranium, and still more advanced systems, employing thermonuclear fusion - the power that lights the sun - to extract more energy from a gallon of water than can be obtained from 300 gallons of gasoline. He tells about the bold entrepreneurs - a totally different breed from the government officials who created the existing types of nuclear reactors - who are leading this revolution. 1953 Atomic Cannon, Nevada Test Ranger

ROSATOM RULES: 2/4: The Case for Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future Paperback – April 3, 2023 by  Robert Zubrin  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Case-Nukes-Global-Warming-Magnificent/dp/1736386069/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=UeGVv&content-id=amzn1.sym.ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_p=ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_r=143-0258134-6610437&pd_rd_wg=sJV8b&pd_rd_r=0137d795-3a42-44c6-84c4-74819fbb82e3&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk The Case for Nukes is a unique book. In it, world-renowned nuclear and aerospace engineer Dr. Robert Zubrin explains how nuclear power works and how much it has to offer humanity. He debunks the toxic falsehoods that have been spread to dissuade us from using it by variously the ignorant, the fearful, the fanatical, and by cynical political operatives bought and paid for by competing interests. He tells about revolutionary developments in the field, including new reactor types that can be cheaply mass produced, that cannot be made to melt down no matter how hard their operators try, that use a new fuel called thorium far more plentiful than uranium, and still more advanced systems, employing thermonuclear fusion - the power that lights the sun - to extract more energy from a gallon of water than can be obtained from 300 gallons of gasoline. He tells about the bold entrepreneurs - a totally different breed from the government officials who created the existing types of nuclear reactors - who are leading this revolution. 1953 Atomic Test Range Nevada

ROSATOM RULES: 3/4: The Case for Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future Paperback – April 3, 2023 by  Robert Zubrin  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Case-Nukes-Global-Warming-Magnificent/dp/1736386069/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=UeGVv&content-id=amzn1.sym.ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_p=ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_r=143-0258134-6610437&pd_rd_wg=sJV8b&pd_rd_r=0137d795-3a42-44c6-84c4-74819fbb82e3&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk The Case for Nukes is a unique book. In it, world-renowned nuclear and aerospace engineer Dr. Robert Zubrin explains how nuclear power works and how much it has to offer humanity. He debunks the toxic falsehoods that have been spread to dissuade us from using it by variously the ignorant, the fearful, the fanatical, and by cynical political operatives bought and paid for by competing interests. He tells about revolutionary developments in the field, including new reactor types that can be cheaply mass produced, that cannot be made to melt down no matter how hard their operators try, that use a new fuel called thorium far more plentiful than uranium, and still more advanced systems, employing thermonuclear fusion - the power that lights the sun - to extract more energy from a gallon of water than can be obtained from 300 gallons of gasoline. He tells about the bold entrepreneurs - a totally different breed from the government officials who created the existing types of nuclear reactors - who are leading this revolution. May 19, 1953 Nevada Test Range

ROSATOM RULES: 4/4: The Case for Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future Paperback – April 3, 2023 by  Robert Zubrin  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Case-Nukes-Global-Warming-Magnificent/dp/1736386069/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=UeGVv&content-id=amzn1.sym.ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_p=ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_r=143-0258134-6610437&pd_rd_wg=sJV8b&pd_rd_r=0137d795-3a42-44c6-84c4-74819fbb82e3&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk The Case for Nukes is a unique book. In it, world-renowned nuclear and aerospace engineer Dr. Robert Zubrin explains how nuclear power works and how much it has to offer humanity. He debunks the toxic falsehoods that have been spread to dissuade us from using it by variously the ignorant, the fearful, the fanatical, and by cynical political operatives bought and paid for by competing interests. He tells about revolutionary developments in the field, including new reactor types that can be cheaply mass produced, that cannot be made to melt down no matter how hard their operators try, that use a new fuel called thorium far more plentiful than uranium, and still more advanced systems, employing thermonuclear fusion - the power that lights the sun - to extract more energy from a gallon of water than can be obtained from 300 gallons of gasoline. He tells about the bold entrepreneurs - a totally different breed from the government officials who created the existing types of nuclear reactors - who are leading this revolution. May 1953 Yucca Flats Nevada Test Range

#RUSSIA: ROSATOM building breeder reactors in China and selling ore to the US. Henry Sokolski, NPEC. https://www.geekwire.com/2024/just-watch-us-gates-backed-terrapower-is-bullish-on-being-the-first-next-gen-nuclear-plant-in-u-s/ 1912 Kremlin

GOOD EVENING:he show begins in Kyiv and Moscow, searching for a peace treaty.  To ROSATOM, to fast breeder reactors (for plutonium) in China. To DC and Schumer speech decrying Netanyahu.. To  the Lebanon border.  To statistics at the Wharton school. To cyber attacks by Iran;. to Canada to praise Brian Mulroney. To Hotel Mars to discuss the North Korean Space Program. 1927 John Carter on Mars

1/2: #ROSATOM: Paying Russia for nuclear power. Anthony Ruggiero, FDD. https://www.fdd.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/03-12-24-Ruggiero-Written-Testimony.pdf 1900 Mysterious Island Jules Verne

#ROSATOM: Paying Russia for nuclear power. Anthony Ruggiero, FDD. https://www.fdd.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/03-12-24-Ruggiero-Written-Testimony.pdf 2018 Mark 8 Nuke

PREVIEW: #ROSATOM" Conversation with Anthony Riggeiro of FDD re the astonishing fact that two years into the Ukraine war and the sanctions, the US and its allies, including NATO states, continue trading with and paying the Russian nuclear power monopoly called ROSATOM.  What is to be done? More later. 1841 Kremlin parade

#RUSSIA: Two years later, America still buys uranium from ROSATOM, & What is to be done? Andrea Stricker, FDD https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/02/18/ending-dependence-on-russias-nuclear-sector/ 1910

PREVIEW: #ROSATOM: #URANIUM: Excerpt from a conversation with colleague Andrea Stricker of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies re the fact that the US continues to purchse uranium from the Russian Federation's ROSATOM -- and so do our allies.  Why?  Why not sanctioned? Andrea Stricker analyses,  More of this later today. 1979 Three Mile Island

Congress is probably going to send approximately $50 billion more, most of that for weapons, to continue the war in Ukraine. In November, high ranking officials from the State Department testified about how the Biden administration intends to use our money and why. In this episode, hear the highlights of their testimony and decide for yourself if you think their goals are worth sacrificing more American money and Ukrainian lives. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via Support Congressional Dish via (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! 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Ben Cardin (D-MD): The supplemental funding will strengthen governance and anti-corruption systems. It will improve the resilience of our economies and our energy supply. It will support efforts to come out of the other side of this. We're ready for Ukraine to join EU and also NATO. But this investment in Ukraine goes far beyond its borders. By degrading Russia's military capabilities, we're also degrading the capabilities of those who Russia works with, like Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah. 10:30 Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): First Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs James O'Brien. Assistant Secretary O'Brien assumed his role just last month after serving as sanctions coordinator at the State Department. He is a former career employee of the department receiving numerous performance awards and serve to previous US administration's as Special Presidential Envoy for hostages and for the Balkans. 11:00 Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): The next will be Assistant Secretary for Energy Resources, Jeffrey R. Pyatt. No stranger to this committee, career diplomat Assistant Secretary Pyatt has been in his current role since September 2022. He served as US Ambassador to Greece and Ukraine. He has held numerous leadership positions through out the department and has won numerous awards. 11:25 Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): And our third witness is Assistant Administrator Erin McKee, who serves as the Assistant Administrator in the Bureau of Europe and Eurasia at USAID. Prior to this position, she was the US Ambassador to Papua New Guinea and to the Solomon Islands. Prior to her Ambassador appointments, as a member of the Senior Foreign Service she served in numerous leadership roles throughout USAID and the embassies abroad. Before her US government career she developed private sector experience including throughout the former Soviet Union. 14:40 James O'Brien: This is around the Black Sea and Crimea. Ukraine has, through its own ingenuity and with weapons that have been provided, loosened Russia's grip. Russia tried to blockade the ability of Ukraine to export, but now Ukraine is starting to export more grain, more metals. And this is enabling it to pay for more of its war itself. So just a few numbers as we go through this. Ukraine is hoping to get about 8 million tons of grain and metals out through the Black Sea over the course of the next year. If it does that, it will provide about $5-6 billion more for its tax base than it has now. That helps to make up the shortfall that our supplemental will cover for the meantime. But it also then provides the employment for millions of its citizens to work within Ukraine. Now, that is a path to victory where we help Ukraine by providing assistance to have its energy grid strengthened, air defense over its employment centers, and the export routed needs so that it is able to fight this fight over the long term and to hold Russia off thereafter. 15:50 James O'Brien: The military assistance in the supplemental is about $45 billion. That goes to acquire American equipment that Ukraine will then use to pay for American service people to support Ukraine and to pay other countries to acquire American equipment after they provide equipment to Ukraine. 16:05 James O'Brien: The direct budget support that we provide to Ukraine enables Ukraine to put all of its tax dollars to support the war. Ukraine pays for about 60% of the costs of this war right now. The direct budget support pays for hundreds of thousands of educators, first responders, firefighters, and health care professionals to work within Ukraine. 16:55 James O'Brien: The next question is, who's with us? We have more than 40 countries. They provide much more assistance to Ukraine than we do. It's about $91 billion to our $70 billion so far. They've hosted 4.5 million Ukrainian refugees at a cost of around $18 billion. They are proposing another $50 billion in assistance just from the European Union. 17:30 James O'Brien: Right now, Ukrainians are willing to do this job because it's in their territory. If we abandon them, then somebody else is going to have to do this job later and it's likely to be us. So I'd rather confront Russia and its destabilizing attitudes right here, right now, and we can finish the job with the supplemental that we've proposed for your consideration. 18:45 Geoffrey R. Pyatt: For Ukraine, this coming winter promises to be even more challenging than the last. Ukraine's generation capacity has degraded about 50% since the start of the war. Ukrainian energy workers have labored day and night, often under fire, to repair, restore, and harden grid and generation facilities, often by cannibalizing parts from elsewhere. But most spare parts by now have been consumed, and Russia has recently resumed its bombardment of power plants and refineries, including just this morning in eastern Ukraine. 20:50 Geoffrey R. Pyatt: The World Bank has estimated that after last winter, Ukraine needed at least $411 billion to rebuild its infrastructure. That was eight months ago. Every day that number grows. Electricity grid damage alone amounted to $10 billion in 2022. Ukraine's economic future depends on investment by the private sector, and energy is key to unlocking that industrial recovery. 21:25 Geoffrey R. Pyatt: American energy companies like Halliburton, GE, and EQT have been active partners in this effort, providing vital equipment to Ukraine and actively exploring future commercial opportunities. We're working together to build a better future for and with Ukraine -- modern, cleaner, and with a more decentralized power sector that is fully integrated with Europe, even serving as a power exporter to the rest of the European Union. 22:10 Geoffrey R. Pyatt: After the full scale invasion, US LNG producers stepped up to surge supplies to Europe, as our allies turned away from Russia as an energy source. Since 2022, US exporters have supplied the EU with approximately 90 million tons of LNG -- three times as much as the next largest supplier. Last year, 70% of US LNG exports went to Europe. Europe's shift away from Russian energy has happened much faster than predicted, and marks a permanent shift in the International Energy map. 25:30 Erin McKee: In response to the immediate crisis, USAID has provided nearly $2 billion in humanitarian assistance to Ukraine since February of 2022. The generosity of the American people has supplied emergency health care, agriculture and energy support to Ukraine's most vulnerable populations. And thanks to the Congressional appropriations, USAID disbursed reliable, sustained direct budget support to the Ukrainian government, along with unprecedented levels of oversight. This enabled first responders, health care workers, teachers and others to continue their vital work and sustain Ukraine's economy and institutions while they defend their country's freedom and sovereignty. 26:10 Erin McKee: To respond to Russia's weaponization of hunger, USAID launched the Agriculture Resilience Initiative to keep farmers afloat. USAID also works very closely with the private sector to improve Ukraine's energy security and transform Ukraine's energy sector into a modern engine of growth. Side by side with our agriculture and energy efforts is USAID's support to small and medium enterprises, helping Ukraine increase jobs and generate revenue. 26:45 Erin McKee: At this time, there is no funding left for direct budget support. Without further appropriations, the government of Ukraine would need to use emergency measures such as printing money or not paying critical salaries, which could lead to hyperinflation and severely damage the war effort. USAID has also exhausted all of its supplemental humanitarian assistance funds. Additional funding is critical in the face of what remains an enormous need. If Congress does not approve supplemental funding, our partner organizations in Ukraine would have to either reduce the number of people getting this humanitarian assistance by up to 75% or suspend our humanitarian programs entirely. 27:30 Erin McKee: USAID also looks to the future to building resilient infrastructure and institutions that will support Ukraine's path towards European Union integration. For decades, USAID has buttressed Ukraine's progress towards transparent, inclusive and accountable governance. The United States continues to help Ukraine carry out judicial reform, institutionalized transparent financial systems, and respond to the people of Ukraine's zero tolerance for corruption. 33:15 Erin McKee: They have not skipped a beat in advancing the reform agenda. The EU report just came out this morning and both Ukraine and Moldova, and a variety of other countries, received support for continuing and opening chapters of recession talks. That's because our support to strengthening and deepening the institutions fighting corruption in Ukraine have received the top priority from the President. They had to pass and meet conditionality that we put on our direct budget support and did so without blinking. So while they're fighting a war and fighting for their survival, they are 100% dedicated to ensuring that the political economy model that they inherited during the Soviet Union is dismantled, which reflects the will of the Ukrainian people. 34:35 Geoffrey R. Pyatt: And one of the real success stories amid the tragedy of this war is that Europe has turned decisively away from its dependence, up until 2022, on Russian gas in particular. I see that as a permanent change in the landscape. It's reflected in the billions of dollars that European countries have invested in regasification facilities. It's reflected in the contracts that are being signed with American LNG producers. And it's also reflected in Europe's renewed and doubled commitment to accelerating the pace of its energy transition. So ironically, Putin's weaponization of his energy resource has induced Europe to break its vulnerability there and I think that is a permanent change in the landscape. That is also a positive benefit for American energy producers in our leadership on the energy transition. 35:55 Sen. James Risch (R-ID): I want to talk about the nuclear reactors we have in the United States, of which there are 95, give or take a few. Would you tell the committee, please, where does the fuel come from to operate these nuclear facilities? Geoffrey R. Pyatt: So, Ranking Member, about 20% of the fuel that operates our nuclear fleet here in the United States still comes from Russia. The President has included in his latest supplemental request for about $2.2 billion to help rebuild the nuclear enrichment capacity that we need here in the United States to end that dependency. And the administration has also stated its support for a ban on the import of Russian nuclear fuel. 43:30 Erin McKee: Right now Ukraine is able to spend all of their national budget in the fight. They are paying their soldiers salaries, they are dedicated to defeating Putin on the front lines. That means they don't have any resources to take care of their people and govern, which is as vital to keep up the unity of purpose and the resilience that we've seen from the Ukrainian people, because they're all in, both on the civilian and the military side. So the types of services that would be suspended are first responders who rush into the building and save lives, medical care to make sure that inoculations stay up so that the Ukrainian population stays healthy, particularly children's routine immunizations. We heard reports of polio outbreaks and some other concerns during the early days of the mass emigration of folks fleeing the conflict. We also are supporting teachers and continuing education so that they don't lose a generation as a result of Putin's attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure so that the kids can stay in school, and that those families — Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE): Am I correct that the direct budget support requested gradually goes down over the next year, as the economy becomes more vibrant and we assess Ukraine is able to generate more revenue? Erin McKee: Correct. The direct budget support and their fiscal stability is also vital for the IMF program and other donors stepping in. Our leadership in this space -- and yes, we were first -- unlocked the other support that we've seen mobilized from the EU and other donors, as well as boosting the confidence in the multilaterals to be able to contribute to Ukraine's economic stability, which is as vital as winning the war. If their economy collapses, Putin will have won. 47:55 Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY): As Harvard's Graham Allison points out, if Putin is forced to choose between humiliating defeat on the one hand and escalating the level of destruction, there's every reason to believe he chooses the latter. There's a great deal of evidence that the war in Ukraine has come to a stalemate. Even Ukraine's Commander in Chief of the armed services has admitted as much. In Graham Allison's view, the Ukraine war has escalated far enough to see how bad things would become if we end up in a world where nuclear weapons are used. Allison believes that where we are now, both for Putin's Russia and for the Biden-led US and the Western alliance, it's time to search for an off ramp for all the parties. What is being done at the State Department to search for an off ramp. James O'Brien: Thank you, Senator. A few points. I mean, I can speak to the foreign policy implications. My belief is if we don't stand with Ukraine now, we'll be spending much more on defense in the future. Much of this supplemental goes to reinvest in the United States, so far from rot and ruin, we're actually shoring up the foundations in our energy sector as Assistant Secretary Pyatt — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY): So your argument is that war and funding war around the world is good for our armaments industry. James O'Brien: I'm saying this supplemental is good for our economy — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY): For the armaments industry. So really, it's a justification of war. To me, that's sort of reprehensible -- and this is coming from my side as well -- the idea that "Oh, glory be, the war's really not that bad. Broken windows are not that bad, because we pay people to fix them. Broken countries are not so bad, because hey, look, the armaments industry is gonna get billions of dollars out of this." I think that's a terrible argument. I wish y'all would go back to your freedom arguments or something. But the idea that you're going to enrich the armaments manufacturers, I think is reprehensible. James O'Brien: Well, Senator, I'm not making the argument war is good. I'm making the argument, in this case, war is necessary. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY): And that we can make a little profit on the side. It's not so bad since the armaments guys who make a lot of profit on this, right. James O'Brien: Senator, I think you're proposing a kind of false choice that Ieither have to say that or say nothing. What I'm saying is that our economy rests on a foundation of innovation. And in the supplemental, we're investing in our energy sector — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY): But the money is borrowed. We're borrowing the money. We don't have it. We don't have a pot of money. So what you're arguing is, in essence, that we borrow the money from China, we send it to Ukraine, Ukraine, sends it back to buy arms from us, and that's a win-win. How do we win when we're borrowing money to pay people. See this is this false sort of argument that "oh, look, we'll create five jobs for every dollar we spend," but we're borrowing the money. It doesn't make any sense. It's coming from somewhere where it would be a productive use, into the use of basically fomenting a war and continuing on a war. James O'Brien: No, that's not the choice in front of us, Senator. And I'm sorry that you feel that that's the way you want to frame it. The choice in front of us is do we invest in the capacities that allow this war to be won? Those include capacities in energy, in defense, in IT, and they include — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY): Let's get away from funding the armaments people. You know, I'm not for that. But the original question is, what are you doing to develop an off ramp? You know, when I listen to your presentations, it sounds like the Department of War, I don't hear the Department of diplomacy in front of me. Where are the diplomats? Is anybody talking about negotiation? Do you really believe that Ukraine is gonna push Russia out of out of Ukraine, they're gonna push them out of Crimea, push them out of the East, and that Zelenskyy's is position, "we will not negotiate till they're gone from Ukraine," is viable? And that there's not going to have to be some negotiation beforehand? If you believe that, though, the meat grinder continues and Ukraine will be in utter destruction and tens of thousands more people will die if there is no negotiation. You would think that as a superpower, we would be involved somewhat with encouraging negotiation. But I've heard nothing from you, and nothing from anyone in your administration, frankly, that talks about negotiating. James O'Brien: Well, Senator, then I hope you would sit down and talk with me about what we're doing in this regard. Here, I'll give you a little sense of it. All wars end with a negotiation. We've made clear we'll do that with Ukraine, not over Ukraine's head. It takes two parties to negotiate the end of a war. President Putin is not serious about negotiating the end of the war. He has said he wants to wait and see what happens in November 2024. We're preparing for that eventuality so we can have a negotiation that will actually stick as opposed to the track record of broken agreements that President Putin has made with a whole range of his neighbors up until now. So that's successful diplomacy, not mere diplomacy. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY): There are actually some who say we're back to about where we started as far as negotiating and tens of thousands of people have died on both sides, and we haven't been successful. But I still hear only war and I don't hear diplomacy. James O'Brien: No but I think what we're looking at is successful diplomacy. I just spent last weekend with 66 countries talking about the basis of a successful peace in Ukraine. Russia didn't show up. That, again, is the problem. You don't have a willing partner on the other side, so simply saying that there must be talks is -- you're asking for a monologue, not diplomacy. 55:00 Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR): You know, I'm really struck by the parallel to the journey of Chamberlain to Munich to say, "Okay, Hitler, you can take a third of Czechoslovakia" and then he declared peace in our time, under the assumption that somehow this would not whet Hitler's appetite. Did Chamberlain's strategy work? James O'Brien: No. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR): Will this strategy now, of us bailing on Ukraine to appease Putin, work? James O'Brien: No, it'll invite more aggression. 1:01:40 Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE): Do you think we should condition US aid to prevent US tax dollars from supporting PRC-owned or controlled entities from providing the reconstruction? James O'Brien: Senator, we do. That's why it's so important to have the supplemental so that we remain in the game and can set the conditions that make it impossible for opaque, illegitimate contractors like the Chinese to enter. And I know my colleagues can speak at some length about how in energy, telecomms, and other sectors we do exactly that. But if we're not there, then we can't we can't provide the guarantees you want. 1:05:35 James O'Brien: There are about $2.2 billion to go to both the energy supply and to the economic activity that's needed for Ukraine to begin to repair its access to the outside world. That's also important to us. When Russia invaded Ukraine, grain prices went up six times in many places around the world, because Ukraine is an incredibly important part of the global grain trade. The work that AID does to help Ukrainian farmers get their products to market, in the supplemental, the $100 million that is for demining will help farmers get their product to market. All of that directly benefits the markets in which our consumers are a part. So if we do all that, if we can get them to about pre-war export levels, that's an extra $6 billion a year in tax revenue just from the exports, as well as what the industries pay and what happens around the society. Now, Secretary Pritzker, and she should come and testify this herself, she's doing an outstanding job at building a strategy that lets us focus our efforts in key places, so that Ukraine's economy will begin to work and contribute to the global economy, even while this war is going on. All of that works together to make sure that Ukraine can succeed and has the leverage needed when we get to a negotiation, as Senator Paul wants. 1:13:55 Geoffrey R. Pyatt: So I would point out that the greatest threat to the energy grid today are the Shahed drones, which Russia is now beginning to industrialize the production of those. We can talk about that in a classified setting, but there is a direct Iran-Russia nexus in the attacks on Ukraine's energy system. 1:24:10 Geoffrey R. Pyatt: We are working as hard as we can to accelerate that trend. We do that through two mechanisms. One is by accelerating our energy transition, both here in the United States, but also globally, as the Biden administration has done through the Inflation Reduction Act to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels. But the other aspect of this is what we are doing systematically to reduce Russia's future energy revenue. Just last week, for instance, we leveled new sanctions against a project in the in the Arctic, Arctic LNG 2, which is Novatek's flagship LNG project, which Novatek set in motion with the aspiration of developing Russia as the largest LNG exporter in the world. Our objective is to kill that project, and we're doing that through our sanctions, working with our partners in the G7 and beyond. 1:26:00 James O'Brien: Russia is losing its lucrative markets. That's what got it rich enough to afford this war. It's losing out in the sectors of innovation that are going to drive economic development in the future. So we look at this and say, "Does it put pressure on Putin to get to the table?" Well, yes, it does. It's going to take a little time. He started the war with 640 billion in a rainy day fund. By the start of this year, despite record profits last year, he was down around 580, we immobilized 300 of that, and he spent down further from there. So that gives them a year, two years maybe, of run room on that rainy day fund that all came from selling oil and gas. So that's gone. The second thing is that we don't see Russia able to play in the sectors that are going to drive innovation and economic growth in the future. The areas of quantum mechanics, artificial intelligence, the energy transition, including the new nuclear technologies that are coming on board, and Senator Risch, your work on this I really appreciate, because Russia entangled countries in these long term networks of corruption, with generation-long Rosatom contracts. We're now competing for those again, and taking those sectors away from Russia. That changes the long term prospect from what it was. The result of all this is we anticipate that Russia's GDP is going to be at least 20% smaller by 2030 than it would be if Putin had not started this war. So it's a long term strategic loss for him, and it creates a great opportunity for us in a number of important sectors. 1:35:30 Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL): I understand, and this is not critical. I agree that we can't allow borders to be changed unilaterally and we have to stand with our allies. I'm not diminishing any of those things. But those arguments are too vague. They make sense here, but I'm just telling you they're too vague. This notion that we need to do whatever it takes for however long it takes, is also misguided. Not because that's not necessarily what we need to do, but because that's not going to be enough for people who are asking these questions. I would just say if you had an opportunity, any of you three, or all you three to talk to someone, say someone that came up to me a week ago and said, "Why are we still putting all this money in Ukraine. I hate Putin, I hate what he's done, but we've got all these other things domestically and in other parts of the world that are more important, including China, and now what's happening in the Middle East. How are we going to be spending $60 billion every six months? For how long? Given the debt that we already have?" What would you say to them? And how would you explain to them that this fits into their national interest in that perspective I've just outlined? James O'Brien: That's really well framed, Senator, so I'll do my best here. I think the first thing I'd say is you got to shore up your own base. If we're going to confront China over the next decades, it's 1.4 billion people, that's looking to write the rules that the world economy will run on. We go at them with a coalition of 50-odd countries, Europe is about 600-700 million of that, we're 350 million. With that already, we're set to compete really effectively. Ukraine, though, is a challenge by Putin trying to fray that foundation. So we have to shore that up if we're going to have the heft to compete with China over time. The battle over Ukraine also allows us to reinvigorate our own industrial base, we're creating new energy technologies and putting them in place around the world. We're building new defense technologies, the work that's being done in IT, all of that's included in this supplemental, and that's going to make us better able to defend Taiwan, to work in the South China Sea, than we have otherwise. The final point I'd make is, this is the wrong time to walk away because Ukraine's winning. It's already taken back half the territory Putin seized since February 2022. It opened up the Black Sea grain lanes that Putin tried to shut down in July, did that mostly with its own creativity around a whole set of interesting drones and other technologies that are going to contribute to our security as Ukraine gets closer to NATO. So those are all reasons you don't walk away when you're partway through the job. 1:41:10 Geoffrey R. Pyatt: Ukraine is not a charity case. In economic and development terms, it's an opportunity. Developing that opportunity depends on restoring a level of peace. But as we look to the future, you're going to have a Europe which has decoupled from Russian energy supplies, which means that there's a hole of about 130 BCM per year in energy supply that Europe is going to have to fill. Over the short term, some of that is American LNG, but that's a very expensive option. Ukraine has fantastic resources on wind, on solar, on biomass. It has Europe's second largest civil nuclear industry. It has developed and has demonstrated an extraordinary technological acuity. Just look at how clever Ukrainian soldiers have been in the application of drone technology. These are all the skill sets that Ukraine will need to prosper as a member of the European Union. My colleague, Assistant Administrator McKee, referred to the statement which European President Vanderlaan delivered today welcoming the significant progress that Ukraine has made on its reforms, and her and the Commission's determination to move ahead with Ukraine's accession to the European Union. And I would say as somebody who served as an American ambassador in the EU for six years, what Ukraine represents is a demographically young population, a population which is fantastically committed to the values of the European Union. Ukraine is the only place in the world where people have fought and died under the flag of the EU for the values that are represented in the European constitutions. So I think these are the investments in the leadership that Secretary Pritzker is providing to help our companies and companies around the world begin to make plans for the day after and to work with Ukrainians to keep pushing forward the reforms, which are fundamental to creating the environment where American energy companies, renewable energy companies can come into Ukraine, where we can use Ukraine to help to fill the huge challenges that our global supply chain faces. In the Soviet Union, Ukraine was the center of Soviet metallurgy, the center of Soviet petrochemicals industries, all of those latent skills are still there. You talked about nuclear, Ukraine has a company in Kharkiv, Turboatom, which is one of the few facilities in all of Europe that has the industrial capacity to produce the large steel enclosures that are part of building modern nuclear reactors. So I applaud your focus on this and I know I speak for all three of us and how systematically we're focused on trying to lay the foundation for that better future that the Ukrainian people so richly deserve. 1:53:55 James O'Brien: Ukraine has won back 50% of the territory Russia took since February of 2022. The second piece that's important: Putin is playing a waiting game, like many Muscovite rulers before him. So it's difficult to get a decisive battle. So what we need is what's in the supplemental that has the ability to fight this fight over some time, and we do see real success. So in the Black Sea, Russia attempted to stop Ukraine from exporting. In July, exports were down 2-2.5 million tons; they're already more than doubled, and expect to see them go up substantially more. That's because of what Ukraine has done with its technology and its new weapons systems, more of which would be provided by the supplemental. February 4, 2014 On Demand News on YouTube Speakers: Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, 2013-2017 Geoffrey Pyatt, United States Ambassador to Ukraine, 2013-2016 Clips Victoria Nuland: Good. So I don't think Klitsch [Vitali Klitschko] should go into the government. I don't think it's necessary, I don't think it's a good idea. Geoffrey Pyatt: Yeah, I mean I guess, in terms of him not going into the government, just sort of letting him stay out and do his political homework and stuff. I'm just thinking in terms of, sort of, the process moving ahead, we want to keep the moderate Democrats together. The problem is going to be Tyahnybok and his guys and I'm sure that's part of what Yanukovych is calculating on all this. Victoria Nuland: I think Yatz [Arseniy Yatsenyuk] is the guy with the economic experience, the governing experience. He's the guy. What he needs is Klitsch [Vitali Klitschko] And Tyahnybok On the outside, he needs to be talking to them four times a week. You know, I just think Klitsch [Vitali Klitschko] Going in he's going to be at that level working for Yatsenyuk it's just not gonna work. Geoffrey Pyatt: We want to get someone out here with an international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing. And then the other issue is some kind of outreach to Yanukovych. We'll probably regroup on that tomorrow as we see how things fall into place. Victoria Nuland: So on that piece, Jeff, I wrote the note, Sullivan's come back to me saying “you need Biden,” and I said probably tomorrow for an attaboy and get the deets to stick, Biden's willing. Geoffrey Pyatt: Great. December 19, 2013 The Atlantic Council Speaker: John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona, 1987-2018 Clips 16:45 Sen. John McCain: If Ukraine's political crisis persists or deepens, which is a real possibility, we must support creative Ukrainian efforts to resolve it. Senator Murphy and I heard a few such ideas last weekend—from holding early elections, as the opposition is now demanding, to the institution of a technocratic government with a mandate to make the difficult reforms required for Ukraine's long-term economic health and sustainable development. Decisions such as these are for Ukrainians to make—no one else—and if they request our assistance, we should provide it where possible. Finally, we must encourage the European Union and the IMF to keep their doors open to Ukraine. Ultimately, the support of both institutions is indispensable for Ukraine's future. And eventually, a Ukrainian President, either this one or a future one, will be prepared to accept the fundamental choice facing the country, which is this: While there are real short-term costs to the political and economic reforms required for IMF assistance and EU integration, and while President Putin will likely add to these costs by retaliating against Ukraine's economy, the long-term benefits for Ukraine in taking these tough steps are far greater and almost limitless. This decision cannot be borne by one person alone in Ukraine. Nor should it be. It must be shared—both the risks and the rewards—by all Ukrainians, especially the opposition and business elite. It must also be shared by the EU, the IMF and the United States. All of us in the West should be prepared to help Ukraine, financially and otherwise, to overcome the short-term pain that reforms will require and Russia may inflict. April 20, 1994 Southern Center for International Studies Speaker: Arthur Dunkel, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, 1980-1993 Clips 26:55 Arthur Dunkel: If I look back at the last 25 years, what did we have? We had two worlds: The so-called Market Economy world and the centrally planned world; the centrally planned world disappeared. One of the main challenges of the Uruguay round has been to create a world wide system. I think we have to think of that. Secondly, why a world wide system? Because, basically, I consider that if governments cooperate in trade policy field, you reduce the risks of tension – political tension and even worse than that." Music by Editing Production Assistance

Les journalistes et experts de RFI répondent également aux questions des auditeurs sur la mort d'une étudiante gabonaise en Turquie, sur l'opération Springbok et sur des glaciers africains menacés de disparition. Turquie : début du procès sur la mort d'une étudiante gabonaise Le procès sur la mort de l'étudiante gabonaise de 17 ans, Danys Dinabongho Ibouanga, appelée « Dina », s'est ouvert en Turquie. Son corps avait été découvert en mars dans une rivière. Pour quelles raisons cette jeune femme a-t-elle été tuée ? Ce type d'actes commis contre des Africains est-il fréquent en Turquie ? Avec Anne Andlauer, correspondante de RFI en Turquie.  Énergie : bientôt des centrales nucléaires au Mali et au Burkina Faso ? Le Burkina Faso et le Mali ont signé des accords de coopération avec Rosatom, l'agence russe de l'énergie atomique, pour construire des centrales nucléaires. Pourquoi ces deux pays souhaitent-ils développer un programme nucléaire civil ? Qui va le financer ? Ce projet est-il réalisable dans un avenir proche ? Avec Alexis Bédu, journaliste au service économie de RFI. RDC : l'armée et la Monusco lancent l'opération Springbok En RDC, la Monusco et l'armée congolaise ont lancé l'opération « Springbok », un déploiement conjoint pour empêcher le M23 de conquérir la ville de Goma. Pourquoi les forces onusiennes ont-elles décidé de s'impliquer dans cette opération alors que le gouvernement congolais demande son départ ? Cette opération pourrait-elle retarder le retrait de la mission onusienne de la RDC ?  Avec Augustin Kahindo Muhesi, enseignant en Sciences politiques à l'Université de Goma et à l'Université Catholique du Graben.Climat : les glaciers d'Afrique en voie de disparition ? Lors du One Polar Summit, à Paris, les scientifiques et responsables politiques ont alerté sur la fonte des glaciers, notamment ceux présents au Kenya, en Tanzanie et en Ouganda. Quelles conséquences ce phénomène fait-il peser sur ces pays d'Afrique de l'Est ? Existe-t-il des solutions pour éviter la disparition de ces glaciers estimée à horizon 2040 ? Avec Jeanne Richard, journaliste au service environnement de RFI. 

Pour cette série de podcasts réalisée par l'AFP Audio en partenariat avec The Conversation, nous vous avons promis d'explorer les propositions pour accélérer la transition écologique. Les deux prochains épisodes vont nous permettre d'examiner deux solutions technologiques très débattues et qui seront abordées pendant la grande conférence annuelle de l'ONU sur le climat, la COP 28 qui démarre le 30 novembre à Dubaï, aux Emirats arabes unis. Voici, la première d'entre elles: l'énergie nucléaire. Elle était en perte de vitesse après l'accident de Fukushima au Japon en 2011, mais semble bénéficier d'un fort regain d'intérêt puisqu'elle produit de l'énergie décarbonée. L'Agence internationale de l'énergie (AIE) estime que la capacité installée devrait doubler d'ici à 2050 dans le monde pour atteindre une neutralité carbone.Les partisans du nucléaire civil avancent aussi que cette énergie permettrait aux pays émergents de se développer sans augmenter leurs émissions de gaz à effet de serre.Et l'un des grands acteurs de cette expansion est le conglomérat russe Rosatom, qui multiplie les accords de coopération, notamment en Afrique.Alors qu'en est-il ? Peut-on vraiment parler de solution pour le climat ? Bienvenue dans ce nouvel épisode de Sur la Terre, un podcast de l'Agence France-Presse, en partenariat avec The Conversation. IntervenantsBrent Wanner, responsable de l'unité électricité à l'Agence internationale de l'énergie; Teva Meyer, professeur associé de géopolitique et de géographie à l'Université de Haute-Alsace, auteur de la Géopolitique du nucléaire; Fidele Ndahayo, président de la Commission pour l'énergie nucléaire du Rwanda; Mycler Schneider, coordinateur du rapport annuel sur l'industrie nucléaire World nuclear industry status report et militant anti-nucléaire; M.V. Ramana professeur au sein de l'école des affaires publiques et internationales de l'Université de Colombie-Britannique au Canada, spécialiste du nucléaire et des questions de sécurité globales. Nous avons également invité Rosatom à participer, mais nos questions sont restées sans réponses. Réalisation: Michaëla Cancela-Kieffer.Composition musicale: Nicolas Vair avec Irma Cabrero-Abanto et Sebastian Villanueva.Nous serions ravis d'avoir vos retours sur cet épisode et de savoir quels autres sujets vous souhaiteriez explorer. Alors, laissez-nous une note vocale ou un message sur WhatsApp au + 33 6 79 77 38 45, nous serons très heureux de vous écouter ! Et abonnez-vous à Ici la Terre, la newsletter de The Conversation qui sélectionne une série d'articles pour suivre et comprendre l'actualité environnementale. Sur la Terre est une série de podcasts et de textes financée par le Centre européen de journalisme dans le cadre du projet Journalisme de solutions, soutenu par la fondation Bill & Melinda Gates. L'AFP et The Conversation ont conservé leur indépendance éditoriale à chaque étape du projet. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Recording date: 19th October 2023*What's been happening*Spot uranium is back through US$70/lb after dipping into the $60s. The market has digested Kazatomprom's plan to increase production in 2025 and realized supply is still going to be hard to come by.The world has been very distracted by the Middle East and Gaza the last 10 days. Even though there are no direct effects on the uranium sector that are immediately apparent, it has added to investor uncertainty. This uncertainty affects sentiment more broadly and has put a pause on uranium stocks.*Winner of the week*Bangladesh this week celebrated becoming the 33rd nuclear power producing country in the world as they received their first batch of uranium fuel for their first ever nuclear power plant.Plans for a nuclear power plant in Bangladesh were proposed back in 1961. In 2007 the proposal of 2 units at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant was put forward. By 2009 the government approved a Russian proposal and 2 years later in 2011 an agreement with Rosatom was signed to build at Rooppur.Construction of the first unit commenced in 2017, with commissioning in 2023 and the second unit in 2018, with commissioning in 2024. Russia has financed 90% of the project costs.https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/327151/bangladesh-receives-russian-uranium-to-joinhttps://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-a-f/bangladesh.aspx*Bungle of the week*Despite EU member states' (including Germany) finally agreeing on the reform for the bloc's electricity market, the German Greens party are still trying to derail the whole deal for the sake of preserving their sense of relevance maintained through irrational, unscientific opposition to nuclear power.https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/france-and-germany-claim-eu-deal-electricity-market-success-despite-unresolved-nuclear-questions

*) Türkiye destroys terror targets in Syria Türkiye has hit the terrorist group YPG/PKK positions as part of its anti-terror operations in northern Syria, destroying dozens of targets and "neutralising" many terrorists. 30 targets, including an oil well and a storage facility, caves, bunkers, shelters and warehouses used by terrorists were destroyed, Turkish Defence Ministry said in a statement. The Turkish anti-terror operation came after PKK/YPG attacked the Interior Ministry in the Turkish capital Ankara last Sunday. *) Bangladesh gets first uranium shipment from Russia for nuclear power plant Bangladesh has received the first Russian shipment of uranium fuel for its $12.65B debut nuclear power plant, making it the 33rd country in the world to produce nuclear power. The South Asian country is building the first of two nuclear power plants in collaboration with Russian state-owned atomic company Rosatom. Ninety percent of the project is financed through a Russian loan repayable within 28 years with a 10-year grace period. *) Biden to extend US border wall with Mexico using Trump-era funds US President Joe Biden has defended his plans to extend the border wall with Mexico, saying he didn't think such barriers worked, but he was bound by laws introduced under former president Donald Trump. Biden, who is polling neck-and-neck with rival Trump ahead of a likely 2024 rematch, insisted on Thursday his predecessor had tied his hands on the wall-building. "They have to use the money for what it was appropriated for. I can't stop that," he told reporters in the Oval Office. The US president also stressed that the border wall is ineffective. *) Drone attack on Syrian military ceremony kills 80, wounds 240 An attack on a Syrian crowded military graduation ceremony has killed 80 and wounded 240 others. Civilians, including children, and military personnel were among the dead. Syria's regime said in an earlier statement that drones laden with explosives targeted the ceremony. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. *) Eastern Canada breaks autumn heat records Eastern Canada has shattered heat records this week with temperatures close to 30 degrees Celsius, worrying experts and everyday people struggling to cope with extreme weather made worse by the climate crisis. In the last three days, heat records were broken in Quebec and adjacent provinces. On Wednesday, the mercury reached 29.3 degrees Celsius in Montreal, surpassing the record of 26.7 degrees set in 2005.

In response to Bolivia's recent agreement with Russian state nuclear firm Rosatom and China's Citic Guoan Group to develop its largely untapped resources of lithium – a resource of increasing importance due to its use in rechargeable batteries for mobile phones, laptops, digital cameras and electric vehicles – US Senator Marco Rubio tweeted: “Whether it's through China's BRI, debt-trap policy, or other false promises, nations in our region must remain vigilant of the threat of doing business with Beijing.”   Despite a range of policy makers and researcher debunking Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) activities as ‘debt-trapping' – even by World Bank researches who descibed BRI as ‘largely beneficial' – Western and allied groups have continually stocked fears and misunderstandings of what the BRI is and the role it is playing in human development.  Yet, in the face of this, China continues to prioritize engagement with developing nations. So what's the BRI and what are some of its implications for Africa? Amadeus and Mika discuss. *** The Crane: An Africa-China Podcast is a bi-monthly podcast giving you a fresh look at the news, events, and debates around China-Africa relations from the perspective of two young(ish) Africans. You can listen to all episodes of The Crane for free anywhere you get podcasts. Brought to you by the Dongsheng Collective. Follow us @DongshengNews on Twitter, Instagram, Telegram & TikTok. Or visit www.dongshengnews.org. The bumper music uses the song "Live It" by Ketsa, under a single track perpetual license that gives the licensee the perpetual right to use the track in commercial projects worldwide.  #TheCranePodcast #ChinaAfrica #Dongsheng

C dans l'air du 5 juillet - Centrale de Zaporijia : une attaque imminente ? LES EXPERTS : - Général Jean-Paul PALOMÉROS - Ancien chef d'état-major – Ancien commandant suprême de la transformation de l'OTAN - Anthony BELLANGER - Éditorialiste, spécialiste des questions internationales France Inter - Elena VOLOCHINE - Grand reporter– France 24 - Alain PIROT - Journaliste-réalisateur, spécialiste des questions de défense Que se passe-t-il à la centrale nucléaire de Zaporijia ? Kiev a accusé mardi Moscou de préparer une "provocation" dans la centrale occupée par les troupes russes "dans un avenir proche". Les autorités ukrainiennes avancent que des "objets similaires à des engins explosifs ont été placés sur le toit extérieur des réacteurs 3 et 4". "Leur dénotation ne devrait pas endommager les générateurs, mais donner l'impression de bombardements depuis le côté ukrainien", expliquent-elles. Ces derniers jours, les services secrets ukrainiens ont également affirmé que la Russie avait donné l'ordre, à ses employés locaux, d'évacuer le site avant le 5 juillet. A Moscou, un conseiller du géant russe du nucléaire Rosatom a lui accusé Kiev de préparer une "attaque" de l'installation. "Aujourd'hui, nous avons reçu une information que je suis autorisé à révéler. Le 5 juillet, durant la nuit, en pleine obscurité, l'armée ukrainienne va essayer d'attaquer la centrale nucléaire de Zaporijia", a déclaré Renat Karchaa à la télévision russe. Il assure que Kiev a prévu de faire usage "d'armes de précision à longue portée" et de drones. Cette installation, la plus grande d'Europe, se trouve depuis plus d'un an au cœur de la guerre lancée par la Russie contre l'Ukraine. Tombée aux mains de l'armée russe en mars 2022, elle a été visée par des tirs et a été coupée du réseau électrique à plusieurs reprises. Mais la destruction du barrage de Kakhovka début juin a ravivé les inquiétudes et suscité des interrogations sur la pérennité du bassin servant à refroidir les six réacteurs de la centrale. Elle fait depuis l'objet de toutes les attentions. Sur son fonctionnement, sur son utilisation comme bouclier par les soldats russes, sur le refroidissement. Mais rien qui s'approche de ce que serait la destruction délibérée de réacteurs nucléaires. Alors ces déclarations sont-elles crédibles ? Quelle est la situation à Zaporijia ? Et que se passe-t-il au sein de l'état-major russe ? La purge a-t-elle commencé en Russie ? Alors que la bataille de communication se poursuit entre Kiev et Moscou, et que sur le terrain les combats font rage, le commandement de l'armée russe apparaît affaibli, entre la nouvelle attaque de drones survenue mardi au-dessus de la région de Moscou et les mystérieuses disparitions médiatiques de plusieurs hauts gradés. Ainsi depuis le samedi 24 juin au matin, jour de la tentative de rébellion du groupe Wagner, Sergueï Sourovikine n'est plus réapparu et les spéculations se multiplient sur le sort de cet ancien chef des opérations russes en Ukraine, qui aurait pu être au courant des manœuvres du groupe paramilitaire. Parallèlement les regards se tournent vers la Biélorussie où la milice Wagner de Prigojine a trouvé refuge après sa tentative avortée de mutinerie en Russie. Un positionnement qui pose questions et suscite des craintes à Kiev mais aussi en Pologne et dans les pays baltes. Le président lituanien a fait part fin juin de son désir de voir l'OTAN "renforcer" son flanc est, alertant sur la possibilité de voir des "bouleversements de la même ampleur, voire plus importants" éclater dans l'avenir. Pour tenter de le rassurer, lundi 26 juin, l'Allemagne s'est dite "prête à déployer durablement une brigade robuste en Lituanie" de 4 000 soldats. Un contingent de 800 hommes et femmes étant déjà déployés sur place. L'Allemagne est actuellement à la tête du groupement tactique multinational de l'OTAN et de son millier de combattants, prêts à défendre ce pays également frontalier de l'enclave russe de Kaliningrad. DIFFUSION : du lundi au samedi à 17h45 FORMAT : 65 minutes PRÉSENTATION : Caroline Roux - Axel de Tarlé REDIFFUSION : du lundi au vendredi vers 23h40 RÉALISATION : Nicolas Ferraro, Bruno Piney, Franck Broqua, Alexandre Langeard, Corentin Son, Benoît Lemoine PRODUCTION : France Télévisions / Maximal Productions Retrouvez C DANS L'AIR sur internet & les réseaux : INTERNET : francetv.fr FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/Cdanslairf5 TWITTER : https://twitter.com/cdanslair INSTAGRAM : https://www.instagram.com/cdanslair/

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Ukraine: #Russia: #Rosatom: Trading with the enemy. Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/04/18/g7-members-announce-plan-to-reduce-nuclear-fuel-dependence-on-russia/

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Russia: Rosatom remains largely without sanctions & What is to be done? Andrea Stricker, FDD https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/04/18/g7-members-announce-plan-to-reduce-nuclear-fuel-dependence-on-russia/

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow ##Ukraine: Why not sanction Rosatom? Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center https://apnews.com/article/germany-france-russia-nuclear-power-rosatom-framatome-ce47027005349580306d55553c7f1142

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Russia: The US is in business with the Kremlin's Rosatom & What is to be done? Henry Sokolski, NPEC https://npolicy.org/stop-funding-russias-nuclear-weapons-the-hill/