Greenpeace urged the French government on Tuesday to end uranium “trading contracts” between France and Russia as supplies continue despite the war in the absence of international sanctions on Russia’s civilian nuclear power, AFP reported.

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In its statement, Greenpeace calls for a definitive end to all nuclear trade with Russia.

The NGO also calls for “termination of all current contracts between the French nuclear industry and Rosatom (the Russian giant) and its subsidiaries, starting with the uranium trading contracts between Tenex, a subsidiary of Rosatom, and EDF and Orano respectively.”

“Continuing nuclear trade with Russia while war rages in Ukraine is outrageous,” said Pauline Boyer, head of nuclear and energy campaigns at Greenpeace France.

On Tuesday morning, “dozens of barrels of enriched uranium and ten containers of natural uranium from Russia” were transported by cargo ship to the port of Dunkirk to be loaded “onto a train and several trucks, whose destinations may be Pierrelatte in France and/or Lingen, in Germany,” the NGO estimated.

Nuclear power plant builder and fuel supplier Framatome, a subsidiary of EDF, simply told AFP on Tuesday evening that it was a “delivery of materials for the production of nuclear fuel” to its plant in Romance-sur-Isère (Drôme). That fuel is then destined for “its customers and in particular the French nuclear fleet,” he said.