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<blockquote data-quote="floridays" data-source="post: 3333994" data-attributes="member: 68849"><a href="http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/358339-uranium-one-deal-led-to-some-exports-to-europe-memos-show" target="_blank">Uranium One deal led to some exports to Europe, memos show</a>The NRC never issued an export license to the Russian firm, a fact so engrained in the narrative of the Uranium One controversy that it showed up in The Washington Post’s official fact-checker site this week. “We have noted repeatedly that extracted uranium <a href="https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/trib.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/a/6d/a6dfc0fd-5a9e-5e85-8fa6-f6cc62f3f741/4d912cbe63fb5.pdf.pdf" target="_blank">could not be exported by Russia without a license</a>, which Rosatom does not have,” the Post reported on Monday, linking to the 2011 Barrasso letter.Yet NRC memos reviewed by The Hill show that it did approve the shipment of yellowcake uranium — the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons — from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party. Later, the Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe, government documents show.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="floridays, post: 3333994, member: 68849"] [URL="http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/358339-uranium-one-deal-led-to-some-exports-to-europe-memos-show"]Uranium One deal led to some exports to Europe, memos show[/URL] The NRC never issued an export license to the Russian firm, a fact so engrained in the narrative of the Uranium One controversy that it showed up in The Washington Post’s official fact-checker site this week. “We have noted repeatedly that extracted uranium [URL='https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/trib.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/a/6d/a6dfc0fd-5a9e-5e85-8fa6-f6cc62f3f741/4d912cbe63fb5.pdf.pdf']could not be exported by Russia without a license[/URL], which Rosatom does not have,” the Post reported on Monday, linking to the 2011 Barrasso letter. Yet NRC memos reviewed by The Hill show that it did approve the shipment of yellowcake uranium — the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons — from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party. Later, the Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe, government documents show. [/QUOTE]

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