Posted on 04/18/2023 8:56:38 PM PDT by dynachrome
The US has sensitive nuclear technology at a nuclear power plant inside Ukraine and is warning Russia not to touch it, according to a letter the US Department of Energy sent to Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy firm Rosatom last month.
In the letter, which was reviewed by CNN and is dated March 17, 2023, the director of the Energy Department’s Office of Nonproliferation Policy, Andrea Ferkile, tells Rosatom’s director general that the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar “contains US-origin nuclear technical data that is export-controlled by the United States Government.”
Goods, software and technology are subject to US export controls when it is possible for them to be used in a way that undermines US national security interests.
The Energy Department letter comes as Russian forces continue to control the plant, which is the largest nuclear power station in Europe and sits in a part of the Zaporizhzhia region that Russia occupied after its invasion of Ukraine last February. The plant has frequently been disconnected from Ukraine’s power grid due to intense Russian shelling in the area, raising fears across Europe of a nuclear accident.
The plant is still physically operated by Ukrainian staff, Rosatom manages it. The Energy Department warned Rosatom in the letter that it is “unlawful” for any Russian citizens or entities to handle the US technology.
“It is unlawful under United States law for non-authorized persons, including, but not limited to, Russian citizens and Russian entities,” the letter says, “such as Rosatom and its subsidiaries, to knowingly and willfully access, possess, control, export, store, seize, review, re-export, ship, transfer, copy, manipulate such technology or technical data, or direct, or authorize others to do the same, without such Russian entities becoming authorized recipients by the Secretary of the US Department of Energy.”
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Cue laughing Putin
We’re gonna need more sanctions.
Or what?
I guess the 20 or so Biolabs wasn’t enough for the Neocons, and now they’re possibly helping Ukraine develop nukes.
Figures.
Smart! Give Ukraine sensitive nuclear technology for a plant right where a civil war has been occurring since 2014. Chalk-up another victory for DC bureaucrats and deep-staters!
Since the Clintons can just hand over nuclear technology to North Korea and China, why not?
Another strongly worded letter.
Makes about as much sense as blowing up their own pipeline.
Send over our F16’s and F35’s. I want to see how well the S-400 and S-500 missile system works. So far it looks like they are afraid to do that, so they gotta talk tough instead. In the meantime, the world is watching our insanity and doubts about wanting to be associated with the US are growing by the day.
On news of which I am sure Pootie-Poot must have shat himself (from laughing too hard).
I guess that fully explains why our HIMARS have been hitting the plant all year.
Just wait until your father gets home. You are in trouble now.
And what is Biden going to do if the Russians do not comply?
Raise his cut from the usual 10%?
This must be old and dated technology. Unless we have helped Ukraine upgrade that nuke plant over the years.
Rosatom to Andrea two middle fingers.
-fJRoberts-
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