"EDF faces legal action over France’s continuing nuclear ties with Russia", 25 September 2026

In 2022, shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Greenpeace France revealed that reprocessed uranium ... was being shipped to Rosatom's Seversk site in Siberia for conversion so it can eventually be reused as fuel in French nuclear power plants.

EDF subsequently halted the exports after being ordered to do so by the French government.

However, in November 2025 Greenpeace France revealed that shipments had resumed through the port of Dunkirk, despite the continuing war in Ukraine...

The NGO is now challenging EDF's handling of those activities under France's corporate duty of vigilance law...

In a formal notice sent this month, Greenpeace accused EDF of failing to include key risks linked to its Russian operations in its 2024 and 2025 vigilance plans – including environmental damage, risks to workers' health and safety and the possibility of serious human rights violations.

It has given EDF three months to respond to its formal notice and says it could then take the matter to the Paris Judicial Court...