Germany proposes sanctions on Russia's nuclear industry.

Germany's economy ministry has asked the European Commission to impose sanctions on Russia's nuclear energy sector. With its members divided on the idea, the EU has thus far refrained from including nuclear fuels in its sanctions packages. Germany shut down its last three nuclear power stations on Saturday, defying calls to extend their operation. Five members of the G7 group announced that they would develop supply chains for nuclear fuel that exclude Russia, in a bid to force the country out of the international nuclear energy market. Russia is one of the world's largest uranium producers and supplied the EU with around 20% of its imported uranium in 2020. The EU has imposed ten packages of economic sanctions, but obtaining the unanimous consent from its members to pass an eleventh package could prove difficult, with Hungary vowing to oppose such a measure. France also cooperates extensively with Rosatom, though its position on sanctioning the company is unclear. In a post to Twitter on Saturday, Sven Giegold, a state secretary in the German finance ministry, said that Berlin will "try to convince" Paris to follow its lead and cut itself off from Russian uranium.