Russia is superior to France in Niger for the proposed power plant

Russia drooping about the possibility of building a nuclear power plant in Niger, rich in uranium – a huge, arid condition on the outskirts of the Sahara desert, which should import most of its electricity.

This may be considered impractical and will never happen, but the concept is another step of Moscow to seek geopolitical advantage over the Western peoples.

Niger has historically exported metal to further clarify in France, but this changes when a country under the leadership of hostilities disables the connections with the former colonial force.

In June, the uranium management operation was run by the French Nuclear Group Orano, which cleaned Russia’s path to act as a new partner.

It is about the production of electricity and medical applications, with a focus on the preparation of local examination under the cooperation agreement signed between the Russian-state corporation Rosatom and Nigeria’s authorities.

If, if they brought fruit, it would be the first nuclear energy project in West Africa.

In addition to the initial discussions, it is unclear how far everything will move on this road. But with this first step, Moscow showed that it understands the depth of local disappointments.

For more than five decades, Orano, which was known as an Areva by 2018 – highlighted Uranus Niger to put a nuclear energy sector that underpin the French energy strategy.

Currently, the French government company receives most of its supplies from Canada and Kazakhstan and has development projects in Mongolia and Uzbekistan.

But Nigeria’s connection remained a significant and reasonable degree of political and possibly even cultural weight.

However, Paris did not shared his nuclear energy with his loyal African supplier. Meanwhile, nigga should greatly rely on the generation of coal and import of electricity from Nigeria.

But now the gap between Nunta Niger and France has allowed Moscow to offer hope, albeit a distant, nuclear future, what is an ama/oran, for so many years of local operation, could not do.

“Our task is to not just participate in uranium mining. We must create a whole system for the development of peaceful nuclear energy in Niger,” Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tivilev said on July 28 during a visit to Niya.

Naturally, this is not quite altruistic. Russia has economic benefits, and this is part of a broader push for the displacement of Western influence from the Sahel region.

The Russians could have the opportunity to develop the mine in the Imuren, one of the largest in the world of Uranus.

The French site development plan was originally a decrease in demand in the world Urance after the Fukushima 2011 nuclear accident in Japan. It was revived in mid -2013, only for the military junta, which captured electricity in a few weeks, then abolished the rights of Oran to the deposit of the Immurene.

Obtaining this key asset would ensure that Russia’s already important position in the world production of uranium, which is now so vital for worldwide hope that nuclear energy will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

And they may be able to buy at a favorable price all or part of up to 1400 tons of uranium “Zhaltosek”, which is expected to export from the Sominak mine, which is ruled by Orano in the Arlite confiscated in June.

For the first time, the reserves came after the West African regional bloc, Ecowas imposed the Niger’s trade blocking after Mohammed Bazum, the country’s civil president, in July 2023. But even after the sanctions were lifted, the new military regime prevented Oran from resuming supplies.

At one stage, China also showed interest in buying some concentrates.

Nigeriens even studied contacts with Iran until the US warned them by pursuing any sale in this particular direction.

Of course, the picture of the Nigeria Nigeria Nigeria Nuclear Power Plant raises huge issues – technical, economic and security in the region known for Islamist militancy.

Indeed, the French seem to have never felt that this option should be seriously considered.

While the recycling of ore into a yellow pie can be made in Niger, the next transformation, enrichment and transformation into nuclear fuel was carried out abroad, at the Orano factory into Cap de la Hague into Normandy.

From there he was taken to French nuclear nuclear power plants.

The construction of the nuclear station may take years, and such projects require a large number of capital investments, and after work they need a large and safe power supply.

In addition, vitality depends on the availability of industrial and domestic consumers who can afford the price that is created.

There are also questions about whether the nuclear power plant can be safely built and protected in today’s fragile and tough Sahel region. Armed groups of jihadists control the large areas in Mali and Burkin -fos, as well as parts of the Western Niger, which makes the area very dangerous.

Considering the time, costs and complications of the nuclear sector development in Niger, this remains a long prospect.

This probably does not offer early funds to weaken the current energy pressure or its need for economic diversification.

But in a sense, these technical issues are not enough.

The fact that Russia has captured is a sense of resentment of Nigeria in the French assumption that they must satisfy to remain infinitely supplier of the raw minerals without wearing more industrial levels.

The Union military regimes in the neighboring Mali and Burkina -fos used their African sovereign vision for the largest exports – gold.

The new mining rules forcing foreign investors to give a big role to local business partners and ensure that some production is refined at the local level, keeping more “added cost” of jobs and home profit.

Mali even detained some heads of Canadian mining in mining for months.

Now Niger also played Hardball.

Disabling and possible nationalization of Orano operations were surrounded by mutual liquidation, and the government and the company accuse each other of obstructiveness.

The director of the group in the country of Ibrahim Kurma is being imprisoned without accusation since May.

And today the authorities seem to be decided to prove the French uranium mining in Niger, and one official tells about the Parisian newspaper Le Monde that Orano “stuffed himself with the natural resources of our country.”

Who can say what proposals of Moscow on nuclear scientific partnership and possibly even electricity production, if they will be in specific conditions?

But one thing it was clear that the political mood was properly read in Niger.

Paul had – a consulting officer of the African program at the Chatem House in London.