Russia’s Uranium Enrichment Still Gives the Kremlin Leverage Over Washington

Russia remains the United States’ top supplier of uranium enrichment services despite mutual 2024 bans: Washington barred Russian low-enriched uranium imports in August, and Moscow outlawed such exports three months later. Analysts say both restrictions look like theater, leaving Kremlin leverage that decades of U.S. reliance—since the 1995–2013 Megatons to Megawatts program—may have entrenched.