French Orano opens uranium conversion plant despite glut

French nuclear group Orano on Monday inaugurated a 1.15 billion euro (1.02 billion pounds) uranium conversion plant despite huge global overcapacity for nuclear reactor fuel. State-owned Orano’s new plant in Tricastin, southern France, will account for a quarter of the world’s 60,000-tonne annual uranium hexafluoride (UF6) production capacity when it fully ramps up in 2021 …

Challenges and changes at Kazatomprom

NAC Kazatomprom has changed its strategy to be more responsive to prevailing market conditions, CEO Galymzhan Pirmatov told delegates attending the World Nuclear Association Symposium 2018 in London today. Over the past 20 years the Kazakh uranium producer has transformed from a small uranium company to the largest uranium producer in the world, and diversified …

Uranium supply crunch may be just around the corner

Production cuts, halted projects and operations, as well as renewed interest from investors has helped drive uranium prices up by 30% in the past four months, but experts remain cautious about the long-term outlook for the commodity. Decade-low prices have had a negative effect on the profitability of existing mines and a devastating effect on the capacity …

Investment fund Yellow Cake snaps up more uranium after float success

An investment vehicle designed to profit from the rising price of uranium is to snap up another £8m-worth of the radioactive mineral. Yellow Cake, which raised $200m (£156m) in a successful float on the London Stock Exchange earlier this summer, said it would buy another 350,000 lb of uranium from Kazakh supplier Kazatomprom and store it …

Flocking to Uranium

The post Yellow Cake Debut described the capital raising effort of one of the newest players in the uranium supply chain. Yellow Cake leadership brought the aspiring intermediary to the capital market at a critical time for uranium producers.  The uranium market has been in an extended trough period since the industry peak in 2007.  At that time …

L.YCA – Yellow Cake plc Closing of IPO and Receipt of Uranium

Yellow Cake, a specialist company operating in the uranium sector with a view to hold long term physical uranium ( “U3O8“), is pleased to announce that following the placing and subscription of approximately 76 million ordinary shares (the “Offering”) and  admission to the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (the “Admission” together with the …