More than four years after the start of the war in Ukraine, Swiss nuclear power plants are still heavily dependent on Russia for the supply of uranium, according to Greenpeace. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Replacing Russian uranium with supplies from Kazakhstan is not enough to cut this dependency, says the environmental NGO. Swiss energy company Axpo has announced a partnership last year with Kazatomprom, the leading Kazakh company in the uranium sector. + Is nuclear energy poised for a comeback? Until now, Axpo has sourced all of the fuel for the two reactors at its Beznau power plant from Russia and half of the fuel for its reactor in Leibstadt. Even if the mining locations change, the Russian company Rosatom remains indispensable, said Greenpeace. This is because the majority of the uranium mined in Kazakh mines is exported via a route through Russia that ends in St Petersburg. There it is loaded onto Russian ships and transported to European …