France, Sept. 25 -- In 2022, shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Greenpeace France revealed that reprocessed uranium - known as RepU - was being shipped to Rosatom's Seversk site in Siberia for conversion so it can eventually be reused as fuel in French nuclear power plants.

EDF subsequently halted the exports after being ordered to do so by the French government.

However, in November 2025 Greenpeace France revealed that shipments had resumed through the port of Dunkirk, despite the continuing war in Ukraine.

Seversk remains the only facility in the world capable of carrying out the conversion of this reprocessed uranium.

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