The US will remain dependent on Russian enriched uranium for several years despite renewed efforts to rebuild the domestic nuclear fuel supply chain, US energy secretary Chris Wright said in an interview for CNBC.

Wright said that while the Department of Energy (DOE) is working “as aggressively as we can” to re-establish uranium enrichment and fuel fabrication capabilities in the US, “nothing in nuclear moves super fast”.

He warned that Western countries, including the US, Western Europe and East Asia, will continue to rely on Russian material for “at least two to three more years”.