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TELL ME AGAIN WHO'S IN BED WITH RUSSIA?Russia is bragging about Hillary sale of 20% Uranium! Russian nuclear energy conquers the world Russia » Economics... View MoreTELL ME AGAIN WHO'S IN BED WITH RUSSIA?Russia is bragging about Hillary sale of 20% Uranium! Russian nuclear energy conquers the world Russia » Economics Russian nuclear energy demonstrated impressive achievements in the global market "of nuclear services" in 2012. In this area, Rosatom State Corporation wins competition with major Western companies, even though cooperation in the field of "peaceful atom" remains under strong political pressure. Russian nuclear energy conquers the world. 49175.jpeg The raw material orientation of Russian exports receives criticism on a regular basis, mainly with no prospect of success in the export estimates of advanced technologies. However, they are present in the field of exports of goods and services of the nuclear industry. Russia has been showing impressive results, conquering new markets and penetrating into the markets of competitors. The advantages of Rosatom over its competitors (especially the French company AREVA and U.S.A.'s Westinghouse) are about the fact that the Russian company offers customers a complete range of services - from the construction of nuclear power plants and fuel supplies to staff training and generator shutdowns. In addition, Rosatom is very disciplined in observing construction periods (5-6 years), which most competitors lack. The portfolio of Rosatom's foreign orders before 2022 now stands at 69.3 billion dollars, not including the HEU-LEU contract (processing highly enriched uranium (HEU) extracted from nuclear warheads of Russian missiles into low enriched uranium (LEU)). In 2012, the portfolio increased by 18.4 billion dollars, and the number of orders increased by 8 power-generating units (from February 11, 2011), the Center for Energy Expertise said. The above-mentioned facts can be observed despite the "Fukushima syndrome," which pushed many countries (Germany, Switzerland, Japan) to refuse from the construction of nuclear power plants and shut down nuclear energy programs. On the contrary, Rosatom's portfolio of orders will continue to grow with a prospect to replacing outdated units with new ones. The "passive safety systems" that Rosatom proposes provide absolute safety in case of accidents, even if there is no water, electricity and personnel. In addition, the company develops fast neutron reactors of the 4th generation (Project "Breakthrough"), which will use elements of spent fuel. Last year, special progress was achieved in Asia. There were nuclear power plants built in China (Tianwan NPP), Iran (Bushehr); NPP Kudankulam (India) is to be launched before the end of the current year. President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would give Bangladesh a loan for the initial phase of construction of the first nuclear power plant in the amount of $500 million. In the capital of Bangladesh, there will be an information center for nuclear energy set up - similar to the one that already works in Turkey, where Rosatom has a contract to build a nuclear power plant with full funding of the project by the Russian side ($ 25 billion). This week, Rosatom became the owner of 100 percent of shares of Canadian uranium company Uranium One, which operates in Kazakhstan. Should the deal is approved by shareholders, a subsidiary of Rosatom will be able to consolidate control over uranium assets in the former Soviet Union and pave the way for the expansion of access to resources in Australia and South Africa. In Europe, the situation with orders for 2013, can significantly improve. In the Old World, it is generally assumed that Russia strives for energy dictatorship over Europe in general and Germany in particular. It was political reasons that made Bulgaria refuse from the contract for the construction of Belena nuclear power plant ($ 10 billion). Most likely, though, the country will return to the contract with Rosatom if the question of the fundamental development of nuclear energy is resolved favorably during the referendum on January 27th. In the Czech Republic, there is a tender for the construction of two nuclear reactors in Temelin (15 billion dollars). The French AREVA has left the competition. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton personally lobbied the company Westinghouse. However, its chances to win the tender is much less than that of Rosatom. Rosatom's subsidiary, TVEL, will supply fuel to Swedish nuclear power plants Ringhals-3. Thus, Russia, through the export of the full cycle of nuclear power greatly increases its strength as a world power. A positive development of this situation in the future may remove the issue of who will control "energy weapons" of the future. Russia will be automatically integrated into economic and political relations with the recipient country of services. Lyuba Lulko Pravda.Ru Read the original in Russian http://www.pravdareport.com/russia/economics/22-01-2013/123551-russia_nuclear_energy-0/

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Russian Uranium Deal (2009-2013): Hillary Clinton’s State Department approved a deal allowing a Russian company to control 20% of the uranium mining production capacity inside the United States, which was followed by millions of dollars in donations to the Clinton Foundation from people associated w... View More

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Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal WAR GRADE Uranium Deal The headline in the website Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when its precursor served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear... View MoreCash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal WAR GRADE Uranium Deal The headline in the website Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when its precursor served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.” The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain. But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one. At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family. Members of that group built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as Uranium One. Photo Frank Giustra, left, with former President Bill Clinton at a Clinton Foundation news conference in 2007. Credit Shannon Stapleton/Reuters Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well. And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock. At the time, both Rosatom and the United States government made promises intended to ease concerns about ceding control of the company’s assets to the Russians. Those promises have been repeatedly broken, records show. The New York Times’s examination of the Uranium One deal is based on dozens of interviews, as well as a review of public records and securities filings in Canada, Russia and the United States. Some of the connections between Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation were unearthed by Peter Schweizer, a former fellow at the right-leaning Hoover Institution and author of the forthcoming book “Clinton Cash.” Mr. Schweizer provided a preview of material in the book to The Times, which scrutinized his information and built upon it with its own reporting. Whether the donations played any role in the approval of the uranium deal is unknown. But the episode underscores the special ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to accumulate $250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation’s donors. In a statement, Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, said no one “has ever produced a shred of evidence supporting the theory that Hillary Clinton ever took action as secretary of state to support the interests of donors to the Clinton Foundation.” He emphasized that multiple United States agencies, as well as the Canadian government, had signed off on the deal and that, in general, such matters were handled at a level below the secretary. “To suggest the State Department, under then-Secretary Clinton, exerted undue influence in the U.S. government’s review of the sale of Uranium One is utterly baseless,” he added. American political campaigns are barred from accepting foreign donations. But foreigners may give to foundations in the United States. In the days since Mrs. Clinton announced her candidacy for president, the Clinton Foundation has announced changes meant to quell longstanding concerns about potential conflicts of interest in such donations; it has limited donations from foreign governments, with many, like Russia’s, barred from giving to all but its health care initiatives. That policy stops short of Mrs. Clinton’s agreement with the Obama administration, which prohibited all foreign government donations while she served as the nation’s top diplomat. Either way, the Uranium One deal highlights the limits of such prohibitions. The foundation will continue to accept contributions from foreign individuals and businesses whose interests, like Uranium One’s, may overlap with those of foreign governments, some of which may be at odds with the United States. When the Uranium One deal was approved, the geopolitical backdrop was far different from today’s. The Obama administration was seeking to “reset” strained relations with Russia. The deal was strategically important to Mr. Putin, who shortly after the Americans gave their blessing sat down for a staged interview with Rosatom’s chief executive, Sergei Kiriyenko. “Few could have imagined in the past that we would own 20 percent of U.S. reserves,” Mr. Kiriyenko told Mr. Putin. Now, after Russia’s annexation of Crimea and aggression in Ukraine, the Moscow-Washington relationship is devolving toward Cold War levels, a point several experts made in evaluating a deal so beneficial to Mr. Putin, a man known to use energy resources to project power around the world. “Should we be concerned? Absolutely,” said Michael McFaul, who served under Mrs. Clinton as the American ambassador to Russia but said he had been unaware of the Uranium One deal until asked about it. “Do we want Putin to have a monopoly on this? Of course we don’t. We don’t want to be dependent on Putin for anything in this climate.” https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html

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