I don't know about your first point, but the second doesn't seem correct. Here's a Le Monde article with details on where the Uranium comes from: https://www.le

I don't know about your first point, but the second doesn't seem correct. Here's a Le Monde article with details on where the Uranium comes from: https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2023/08/03/a-quel-point-la-france-est-elle-dependante-de-l-uranium-nigerien_6184374_4355770.html https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2023/08/03/a-qu... It's in French, but thre's a graph showing the distribution which should be legible. TLDR: a good chunk (~20%) comes from a former colony (Niger), but it's not the largest. Other main suppliers have not been French colonies.