The director general of Oxfam France, said that France would buy uranium from Russia, a mineral necessary for the operation of nuclear power plants, referring to a Greenpeace document of March 2022. France did import 19,245 tons of natural uranium and 8,213 tons of enriched uranium from Russia between 2000 and 2020. So, France imports two types of uranium: natural uranium that must be processed and enriched uranium that can be used directly.
In reality, for two years now, Russia has not really been a uranium supplier. In fact, in 2020 France bought almost no natural uranium from it, only 2 kilos out of the 6,282 tons imported during the year. According to the Euratom Committee, France was mainly supplied by Niger, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. France has been diversifying its natural uranium suppliers for a long time.
However, in 2021, the hexagon obtained 110 tons of enriched uranium from Russia, which represents, it must be said, a very small part of its imports.