Tell US Leaders: Sanction Rosatom - Renewable Energy Independence NOW!

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President and Vice President

Subject: Extend Sanctions to the Russian Nuclear Industry and Invest in Renewable Energy NOW

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Stop importing Russian uranium into the US and sanction Russian uranium. The U.S. must stop all cooperation with Rosatom and its subsidiaries, sanction the company as well as its leadership, and ban imports of Russian nuclear fuel. First of all, this war is horrendous and unacceptable. The purpose of sanctions is to short-circuit Russia’s ability to finance its war on Ukraine, and to isolate Russia economically and diplomatically, to the maximum extent possible. Just as it has done with fossil fuels, Russia has used its nuclear industry to exert political influence over other countries through dependence on its energy supplies and infrastructure. We must cease sending our electricity dollars to finance Russia’s war on Ukraine just as the U.S. has stopped buying Russian fossil fuels for our cars and power plants. This does not mean we need to give into the nuclear industry’s opportunistic demands that we put billions of dollars into expanding uranium mining and nuclear infrastructure here in the US. Uranium mining results in extensive, unjust environmental damage wherever and however it is done. We still have more than 15,000 abandoned uranium mines in the US–mostly on Indigenous lands. These sites are polluting communities and groundwater, and EPA still does not have the plans or funding to clean them up. Expanding uranium enrichment is unnecessary and wasteful, and industry proposals for high-assay enrichment plants would gravely undermine efforts to prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons and the US’s credibility. The US also should not support Russia’s civilian nuclear industry because it is attacking nuclear sites in Ukraine. It is reckless in the extreme for Russia merely to wage its war in areas surrounding Ukraine’s nuclear sites. But Russia has also directly attacked three Ukrainian nuclear sites and occupied two of them, deliberately risking calamity. This is the first time that operating nuclear power plants and radioactive waste facilities have been directly targeted and occupied in a military conflict. If the US does not directly and forcefully sanction Russia for these acts, we risk allowing this war to establish a new international norm, making nuclear power plants legitimate military targets. We must transition to a renewable, clean, and secure energy system - fossil-free and nuclear-free. Nuclear power will never be safe and the attacks on nuclear power plants in Ukraine only underscore the necessity of transitioning away from nuclear power and investing in a renewable, just, and efficient energy transformation that makes us more secure, resilient, and safe. Support Ukraine and heed Ukrainian calls for the US to extend sanctions to Rosatom and ban imports of Russian uranium.

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US Senate

Subject: Support Sanctions on the Russian Nuclear Industry and Invest in Renewable Energy NOW

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Please join Ukraine in calling on President Biden to extend sanctions to the Russian nuclear industry. The U.S. must stop all cooperation with Rosatom and its subsidiaries, sanction the company as well as its leadership, and ban imports of Russian nuclear fuel. First of all, this war is horrendous and unacceptable. The purpose of sanctions is to short-circuit Russia’s ability to finance its war on Ukraine, and to isolate Russia economically and diplomatically, to the maximum extent possible. Just as it has done with fossil fuels, Russia has used its nuclear industry to exert political influence over other countries through dependence on its energy supplies and infrastructure. We must cease sending our electricity dollars to finance Russia’s war on Ukraine just as the U.S. has stopped buying Russian fossil fuels for our cars and power plants. This does not mean we need to give into the nuclear industry’s opportunistic demands that we put billions of dollars into expanding uranium mining and nuclear infrastructure here in the US. Uranium mining results in extensive, unjust environmental damage wherever and however it is done. We still have more than 15,000 abandoned uranium mines in the US–mostly on Indigenous lands. These sites are polluting communities and groundwater, and EPA still does not have the plans or funding to clean them up. Expanding uranium enrichment is unnecessary and wasteful, and industry proposals for high-assay enrichment plants would gravely undermine efforts to prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons and the US’s credibility. The US also should not support Russia’s civilian nuclear industry because it is attacking nuclear sites in Ukraine. It is reckless in the extreme for Russia merely to wage its war in areas surrounding Ukraine’s nuclear sites. But Russia has also directly attacked three Ukrainian nuclear sites and occupied two of them, deliberately risking calamity. This is the first time that operating nuclear power plants and radioactive waste facilities have been directly targeted and occupied in a military conflict. If the US does not directly and forcefully sanction Russia for these acts, we risk allowing this war to establish a new international norm, making nuclear power plants legitimate military targets. We must transition to a renewable, clean, and secure energy system - fossil-free and nuclear-free. Nuclear power will never be safe and the attacks on nuclear power plants in Ukraine only underscore the necessity of transitioning away from nuclear power and investing in a renewable, just, and efficient energy transformation that makes us more secure, resilient, and safe. Support Ukraine and heed Ukrainian calls for the US to extend sanctions to Rosatom and ban imports of Russian uranium.

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US House of Representatives

Subject: Support Sanctions on the Russian Nuclear Industry and Invest in Renewable Energy NOW

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Secretary of Energy Granholm

Subject: Support Sanctions on the Russian Nuclear Industry and Invest in Renewable Energy NOW

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Tell US Leaders: Sanction Rosatom - Renewable Energy Independence NOW!

Take action today! Send a letter to President Biden, Secretary of Energy Granholm, and your leaders in Congress telling them to listen to calls from Ukrainians asking the US to extend sanctions to the Russian nuclear industry.

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