Nigerien military authorities have withdrawn the operating permit for a large uranium mine from the French company Orano, the company said, significantly escalating tensions between the military junta and the country’s former colonial power. Niger, a landlocked country of 26 million, is the world’s seventh biggest supplier of uranium, used for the production of weapons …
Orano SA could lose the right to mine uranium at one of the largest deposits in the world by June 19 after Niger rejected the French nuclear company’s plan for developing the asset. The move comes as Russia’s seeks to take over mining assets in the West African country controlled by the French company, Bloomberg reported on …
he start-up of production at Alta Mesa – a joint venture of enCore Energy and Boss Energy – sees enCore become the only US uranium producer with multiple production facilities currently in operation and is the second start-up in eight weeks for Boss Energy. The first shipment of yellowcake is expected in 60-90 days’ time. …
The national atomic company has signed a new subsoil use agreement with Kazakhstan’s Minister of Energy and received approval for up to four years of pilot production of a total of 701 tU from the Inkai 3 deposit. Inkai is a key uranium deposit, located in the Suzak district of Turkestan region. The Inkai 3 …
South Korea has struck deals with Kazakhstan to allow its firms to explore for critical minerals in the Central Asian state, it said on Wednesday, as the home to major chip producers and leading carmaker Hyundai moves to diversify its supply chains. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is on a state visit to Kazakhstan …
The company that operates Belgium’s nuclear power plants Engie Electrabel will not be using any uranium from Russia to keep the Doel 4 reactor in East Flanders and the Tihange 3 reactor in Liège Province running until 2035. Instead Engie Electrabel has signed contracts with western supplies for the uranium that will be needed to …
Uranium purchases and prices Owners and operators of U.S. civilian nuclear power reactors (civilian owner/operators, or COOs) purchased a total of 51.6 million pounds U3O8e (equivalent1) of deliveries from U.S. suppliers and foreign suppliers during 2023, at a weighted-average price of $43.80 per pound U3O8e. The 2023 total of 51.6 million pounds U3O8e was 27% …
Mining, production, shipments, and sales U.S. uranium mines produced 50,000 pounds of of triuranium octoxide (U3O8), or uranium concentrate in 2023, a significant decrease from the 194,000 pounds produced in 2022 as no production occurred at White Mesa Mill in Utah. The production of uranium concentrate is the first step in the nuclear fuel production …
US nuclear operators will have to show alternatives unreasonably priced Russia supplies one-fifth of enrichment to US reactor operators Congress passed ban but allowed waivers through end of 2027 The US Department of Energy has issued details of a process it will use to evaluate requests for a waiver of a ban on imports of …
Russia’s state-owned uranium supplier Tenex has notified US customers they have 60 days to secure a waiver exempting them from a law recently signed by President Joe Biden that bars imports of the company’s nuclear fuel. The force majeure notice seen by Bloomberg was sent to utilities including Constellation Energy Corp., the largest US nuclear …
