In 2021, the Grohnde nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony on the Weser River was shut down. Now, immediately next to it, the Emmerthal energy cluster is growing with three very large battery storage systems, ground-mounted photovoltaic systems, and a new substation for several 380-kilovolt high-voltage lines.
They haven’t. There is a dependency, but it’s absolutely not “most”. https://euratom-supply.ec.europa.eu/document/download/4991f977-5fa7-415e-8b7f-04714f01c533_en?filename=202509773_PDFA2A_MJ0125120ENA_002.pdf
Read the euratom report if you want the people who do this for a living to tell you.
They’re not “mainly” in the US, again, see the report. There’s a roughly equal split between US, EU, Canada and Russia. So take factories in the West are mainly NOT in the US. Russian imports for processing services is almost entirely used in fuel assemblies going into ex-soviet plants.
Do you know how many of those ex Soviet plants were in Germany and we’re thus shut down by Germany? I’m sure a quick look on which end of Germany they were built before 1989 will let you answer that question.
The French are sourcing more uranium processing from Russia then any other place. And while they do attempt to reduce that, the processing in the EU fell even more between 2023 and 2024 according to the data you linked (thanks), which clearly shows there is insufficient local capacity to replace the large Russian dependency.
Oh and you are right it is the US and Canada. My bad, but it doesn’t change the fact that it would be just another foreign dependency partially in a country that is weaponizing such dependencies.