France’s continuing reliance on Russia for part of its nuclear fuel cycle is facing a new legal challenge, with Greenpeace seeking to force French state electricity company EDF to address the environmental, health and human rights implications of its dealings with Russian state nuclear group Rosatom.
In 2022, shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Greenpeace France revealed that reprocessed uranium – known as RepU – was being shipped to Rosatom's Seversk site in Siberia for conversion so it can eventually be reused as fuel in French nuclear power plants.
