UK backs new nuclear fuel to shut Russia out of the market

UK backs new nuclear fuel to shut Russia out of the market. Britain is to build Europe’s first facility for producing advanced nuclear fuel, in a bid to bolster energy security and squeeze Russia out of the lucrative export market. Unveiling £200million in support for the new plant in Cheshire, Rishi Sunak said the move would ‘prise Vladimir Putin’s blood-soaked hands off Europe’s energy market’. Russia is currently the only commercial producer of advanced nuclear fuels required to run the next generation of modular nuclear reactors.