The Department of Energy on Friday marked the anniversary of Russia’s second invasion of Ukraine with a list of the agency’s contributions to Kyiv during the conflict.
Both the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Office of Nuclear Energy merited callouts in Friday’s press release for showing Ukrainian personnel how to identify radiation releases, conduct unspecified anti-drone activities and repair and maintain emergency infrastructure such as generators at multiple Ukrainian nuclear power plants that have been caught in the crossfire between Ukrainian and Russian armed forces.
Earlier in February at the Exchange Monitor’s annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit, NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby blasted Russia’s “unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine,” calling it a “reprehensible action” that all essentially extinguished nuclear cooperation between Washington and Moscow.
“I’ve been sanctioned, you know?” Hruby said at the summit. “Most of us in the NNSA leadership have been sanctioned by the Russians.”
