Russia Cuts Off U.S. Uranium Supply

Ever since the Obama administration allowed the Russian State Atomic Energy Corp. to purchase Uranium One’s mining operations in Wyoming, the United States has become overly dependent on Russian uranium.

This has become a major problem since Russian President Vladimir Putin banned enriched uranium exports to the U.S. The ban, signed on November 14, redirects Russian uranium exports to India, Iran and China.

Security threat: Nearly all uranium purchased by U.S. nuclear power plant operators is imported, and about 12 percent of it is imported from Russia. President-elect Donald Trump has expressed interest in reviving America’s mining sector, but it will take time to ramp up U.S. uranium production (which currently accounts for only 1 percent of its uranium needs).

Russia’s latest uranium gambit is a major wake-up call for U.S. energy independence.

Clinton scandal: Putin has a strategy to get control of the world’s uranium, and the U.S. government knows about it.

In his book Fallout: Nuclear Bribes, Russian Spies, and the Washington Lies That Enriched the Clinton and Biden Dynasties, investigative journalist John Solomon recounts how the fbi had undercover agents inside Rosatom informing the Obama administration about Putin’s plans to monopolize uranium production.

The Obama administration could have blocked Russia’s 2010 purchase of Uranium One by declaring it a national security threat, since Uranium One controlled roughly 20 percent of U.S. uranium production capacity. But Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the heads of eight other agencies signed off on the purchase.

Learn more: Read Chapter 7 of Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry’s book Isaiah’s End-Time Vision to learn more about the type of resource wars prophesied to afflict America because the nation has turned away from God.