{"id":4702,"date":"2023-11-02T14:55:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T12:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2023-11-02T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T12:55:40","slug":"macron-lands-in-putins-backyard-looks-for-uranium-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4702","title":{"rendered":"Macron lands in \u2018Putin&#8217;s backyard\u2019, looks for uranium &#8211; Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to energy-rich Central Asia this week, where he is visiting Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, two big uranium suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>French nuclear company Orano SA is already exploiting uranium deposits in Kazakhstan through a joint venture with state-owned Kazatomprom.<\/p>\n<p>Deepening Orano\u2019s presence was on the menu of discussions, according to one delegation insider.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, TotalEnergies SE signed an agreement to help develop a wind farm in Kazakhstan, and Alstom SA signed an agreement for the possible production of electric trains.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the two presidents\u2019 negotiations, Kazakhstan agreed to increase exports of oil and uranium to France.<\/p>\n<p>France is now largely dependent on enriched uranium from Russia, last year Electricite de France purchased 153 tons of it from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>President Emmanuel Macron wrapped up a visit to that country Thursday and traveled to neighboring Uzbekistan.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to energy-rich Central Asia this week, where he is visiting Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, two big uranium suppliers. French nuclear company Orano SA is already exploiting uranium deposits in Kazakhstan through a joint venture with state-owned Kazatomprom. Deepening Orano\u2019s presence was on the menu of discussions, according to one delegation insider. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}