Russia-Linked Ship With Nuclear Load Held at NATO Port

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Newsweek

Published Apr 03, 2024 at 9:39 AM EDT | Updated Apr 04, 2024 at 9:19 AM EDT


A cargo ship that was traveling from St. Petersburg, Russia, to the United States has been held at Rostock, Germany's largest Baltic port, for weeks after sanctioned Russian uranium and lumber was found on board.

The Atlantic Navigator II, a 633-foot-long Marshall Islands-flagged vessel that departed from St. Petersburg was forced to call at the port on March 4 due to damage to its propeller, German newspaper Ostsee Zeitung reported on Thursday.

After checks that were carried out as part of monitoring compliance with foreign trade restrictions, German customs agents then held the vessel after discovering that it was transporting 40 million euros ($43 million) worth of sanctioned goods, including birch wood and enriched uranium for U.S. nuclear power plants.

The lumber came from the wood mills of a Russian oligarch who is on the European Union sanctions list, customs officials found. The European Union imposed an embargo on Russian timber in response to President Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022. The restrictions came into force in July 2022, and bans the import of pellets, lumber and other wood products from Russia.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ship-uranium-nuclear-timber-germany-nato-1886452

[marble falls]

1. There are US companies breaking the sanctions? Where are the Feds?

[BumRushDaShow]

2. We are still getting stuff from them

while they still shuttle some of our crew to the ISS.

[marble falls]

3. First Lt Milo Minderbender out there still making deals.

[AllaN01Bear]

8. when are we going to get our own space snapsule to ferrry our own people there .

wernt they supposed to pull out after a certain date .?

[BumRushDaShow]

10. The ISS is going to be decommissioned in 2030

and like or not, SpaceX is currently "our" transport there until Boeing gets their final Starliner okays (first crewed mission is now to be May 6).

[AllaN01Bear]

11. thanks for your information. yes , ugh ,, our space snapsue is x gha , but its better than paying vlad.

good luck Boeing .oops muskox is just as bad as vlad.

[womanofthehills]

15. I don't believe there are sanctions on uranium because we need it

(Good reason to switch to wind & solar)
“U.S. Reactors Still Run on Russian Uranium”

“Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine over two years ago, the West has already made serious strides to wean itself off reliance on Russian energy exports such as oil and natural gas. But deepening dependence on another Russian energy export is causing alarm in Washington, London, and Paris: Moscow’s dominance of the global trade in enriched uranium used to fuel nuclear reactors. “

What’s more, Russia has a complete monopoly on the production of advanced nuclear fuel that will be needed to power the next generation of nuclear reactors, upon which so many hopes rest in the West for fighting climate change. Russia hasn’t yet used its exports of uranium as a geopolitical weapon, unlike its exports of natural gas—but it could at almost any time.”

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/04/us-nuclear-reactors-russian-uranium/

[getagrip_already]

4. Home Depot, im looking at YOU! nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. I always buy my enriched uranium from Home Depot - it's the customer service (nt)

[getagrip_already]

6. I was thinking of the lumber, but hey, they do sell

Fusion generators, so why not.

[Wonder Why]

7. I know some restaurants that advertise their menus as being "fusion" - sushimi enchiladas, anyone?

[ChazInAz]

9. This explains why Baltic Birch is unavailable, nowadays.

I used to use a lot of it in my wooden-geared clocks.

[Backseat Driver]

12. I was kinda thinking birch wood sauna enclosures for the housing developers/designers of rich white elites

amenities in their spanking new SF or condo homes and rental models of new housing platts in colder or mountainous climates??? Bye-bye "cabinets" in anything but red cedar.

[rockfordfile]

13. "Washington has not sanctioned Russian uranium or lumber yet"

"The lumber came from the wood mills of a Russian oligarch who is on the European Union sanctions list, customs officials found."

[rockfordfile]

14. Washington has not sanctioned Russian uranium or lumber yet

"The lumber came from the wood mills of a Russian oligarch who is on the European Union sanctions list, customs officials found."