Critics fear that this project will allow Moscow to carry out espionage and sabotage.
The planned joint venture between the French company Framatome’s subsidiary and Russia’s state nuclear energy agency Rosatom wants to produce fuel cores used in Russian-designed reactors.
The project would be carried out at Framatome’s fuel core assembly plant in Lingen, Lower Saxony.
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Framatome’s subsidiary AND submitted an application for project approval in March 2022, just weeks after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The Ministry of Environment of Lower Saxony stated in a press release issued on Wednesday that it had decided to approve the project.
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