Russia remains a key supplier of nuclear fuel to Europe despite efforts to reduce dependency.

EU utilities continue to stockpile nuclear fuel and grow their inventories.

Russia remained a key supplier of natural uranium, enrichment, conversion and fabricated fuel to European utilities in 2025 despite Brussels' efforts to tamp down the bloc’s dependence on Russian nuclear imports following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to the Euratom Supply Agency's (ESA) latest annual report.