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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 145 / Monday, August 2, 2021 / Notices Uzbek uranium to fulfill many 2018
contracts with U.S. utilities.
Figure 69: Uranium Concentrate Purchased by U.S. Utilities from French, Australian, and Canadian firms, 2018
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Continued excess production of artificially low-priced uranium by Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan will make U.S. and foreign market producers noncompetitive on global markets. As U.S. and other allied nations decrease their production due to poor market conditions, U.S. nuclear power generators will purchase increasing amounts of Russian, Kazakh, and Uzbek uranium to meet their needs.
Dependence on such imports raises a distinct national security concern. The Office of the Director of National Intelligences 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment identifies Russias ambitions to expand its global military, commercial, and energy footprint as an
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U.S. utilities direct dependence on Russian enriched uranium for 20
percent of their annual supply gives the Kremlin significant economic leverage.
Moscow exercises further leverage through its de facto control of uranium exports from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Although Kazakh and Uzbek SOEs are controlled by their respective governments and not Russia,
a significant majority of uranium shipments from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan transit through Russia on their way to U.S. customers.
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146 Coats, Daniel. Director of National Intelligence, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Statement for the Record: Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, 37. January 29, 2019. https
www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/2019-ATASFR-SSCI.pdf.
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