Uranium

Uranium Project

Kazatomprom Raises Uranium Production Guidance for 2024

Kazatomprom is the world’s largest producer of uranium. Credit: T. Schneider via Shutterstock.Kazakhstan’s national atomic company and uranium producer, Kazat…

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Cameco, Kazatomprom Release Half-Year Results

At the mid-year point, Canadian uranium producer Cameco said its expectation for uranium deliveries for the year remains unchanged, but Kazakh producer NAC Kaza…

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Centrus Receives Uranium Import Waiver

Centrus Energy has received a waiver from the US Department of Energy (DOE) allowing it to import low-enriched uranium from Russia for delivery to US customers …

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Transfer of Exploration Licence for Niger Uranium Deposit

USA-based African Discovery Group (AFDG) has signed a letter of intent to acquire the uranium exploration licence for the Ouricha-3 deposit in Niger from Centra…

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Dummy Fuel Loaded Into First New Unit at Kursk II

Preparations for testing of the reactor plant equipment at the new VVER-TOI reactor at Kursk II nuclear power plant continue with the loading of simulated fuel …

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Final Permit Issued for Mauritanian Uranium Mine

Australia-based mineral company Aura Energy Limited announced it has received from the Mauritanian government the last outstanding material permit to allow the …

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Construction Begins on China’s Largest Uranium Mining Project

The project in Ordos in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is being developed by China National Nuclear Corporation, with work beginning on Friday, according …

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International Team Reviews Uganda's Uranium Exploration Plans

The team of experts assessed Uganda's capabilities to develop a uranium exploration programme and eventually to mine uranium for a domestic nuclear power pr…

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DOE Seeks Domestic LEU Supply Contracts

The US Department of Energy has issued a request for proposals to purchase low-enriched uranium from domestic sources. The request is supported by USD2.7 billio…

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Paladin Acquires Fission, Creating Multi-Asset Uranium Company

Australia-headquartered Paladin Energy Limited is to acquire Canadian uranium project developer Fission Uranium Corp in a transaction the companies say will cre…

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Uranium Recovery Starts at Finnish Mine

Finnish mining company Terrafame has begun recovering natural uranium as a by-product of zinc and nickel production at its Sotkamo mine in Talvivaara in the nor…

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Uranium production resumes at Texas project

The 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 produ…

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US Uranium Purchases Show Year-On-Year Increase: EIA

US utilities purchased 27% more uranium in 2023 than 2022, according to the US Energy Information Administration's latest annual report. Most of this came f…

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Inaugural ISL Tests Completed at Third Canadian Uranium Deposit

A test programme at the Midwest uranium project in Saskatchewan has validated that the Midwest Main deposit possesses the characteristics necessary for an in-si…

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Framatome and TerraPower have agreed to design and develop a high-assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) metallisation pilot plant at Framatome's nuclear fuel manufacturing facility in Richland, Washingto

The Richland fuel manufacturing facility (Image: Framatome)Metallisation is a crucial part of the deconversion process to turn enriched uranium hexafluoride - U…