MAILUU-SUU, Kyrgyzstan, April 23 (Reuters) – Dams holding vast amounts of uranium mine tailings above the fertile Fergana valley in Central Asia are unstable, threatening a possible Chernobyl-scale nuclear disaster if they collapse that would make the region uninhabitable, studies have revealed. Dams holding some 700,000 cubic meters (185 million gallons) of uranium mine tailings […]
Uranium price evolution Uranium prices fell to below $100 per pound, after the US government refrained from banning imports of Russian nuclear fuel in its latest sanctions package, easing concerns of even greater supply risks in the global market. Still, a hearing on banning imports from the world’s top enriched uranium producer is expected in […]
Production from mines (tonnes U) Country 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Kazakhstan 22,451 23,127 23,607 24,689 23,321 21,705 22,808 19,477 21,819 21,227 Canada 9331 9124 13,325 14,039 13,116 7001 6938 3885 4693 7351 Namibia 4323 3255 2993 3654 4224 5525 5476 5413 5753 5613 Australia 6350 5001 5654 6315 5882 […]