The US is heavily reliant on Russia's cheap nuclear fuel to produce emissions-free energy. Russia's nuclear agency has been running Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant since its capture from Ukraine. The money for enriched uranium is received by subsidiaries of Rosatom, Russia's state-owned nuclear agency, which has been running Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant since its forceful capture in March 2022. US companies spent about $1 billion in 2022 buying nuclear fuel from Rosatom, The New York Times reported. According to The New York Times, around a third of enriched uranium used in the US is now imported from Russia.

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