Articles, tagged with "spot uranium price", page 1
Turning Global Warming to Your Advantage
Under the former Greenpeace co-founder's scenario, Bambrough extrapolated the World Nuclear Association (WNA) projections for 2030. Nuclear power demand is then expected to soar from the current 368 Gw, produced by the world's 441 nuclear reactors. He c...
A Closer Look at the Uranium Bull Market
reactor created excitement within the industry. During that time, Canadian uranium exploration was taken out of mothballs and production resumed. Hardball shenanigans in Washington kept the uranium ban intact, and global uranium prices reached an all-time...
Uranium Price Stops Declining on Cameco News
Just when the uranium markets begin to look dull - like they did in the 1980s and 1990s -
along comes bad news planting the seeds of renewed interest. In October 2006, it was Cigar Lake. In March 2007, flooding at the Ranger operations attracted more inv...
Little Transparency Inside Uranium’s Secret World
Mired in secrecy, the uranium market hopes to someday offer price transparency. To whom will this ‘real' uranium price become transparent? Industry insiders know well before the general investing public ever finds out.
Utility fuel managers compete w...
Exelon VP to Uranium Speculators: Thanks!
We thought by now we'd heard it all. But the quote which follows, given to us in a tape-recorded telephone interview by the man who obtains nuclear fuel for the largest nuclear utility in the United States, surprised even us.
"From the point of view of...
Utilities Quietly Worry about Uranium Supply
According to Friday's Nuclear Market Review (NMR), many market participants were left stunned by the recent record jump in the weekly spot uranium price. The market has increasingly diverged between those who have U3O8 and those without. Utilities with ex...
New Mine Flood Tightens Uranium Supply
After Cameco Corp's Cigar Lake flood at the company's northern Saskatchewan uranium mining project rattled analysts and utilities who previously expected sufficient uranium would be available to meet the needs of nuclear utilities, along came another mine...
Uranium: The New Precious Metal
Newly mined uranium remains ‘highly sought after' maintains Nuclear Market Review (NMR) editor Treva Klingbiel in the February 23rd issue of the weekly trade magazine, servicing the utility and nuclear fuel industry. It was no more evident than at this ...
Expect Higher Uranium Prices in February
After a six-week stalemate, the spot uranium price indicator renewed its upward climb, as witnessed by the weekly spot uranium price change announced by UxC on January 29th and by Trade Tech's Nuclear Market Review in the magazine's month end report on Ja...
Russia, Speculators to Dictate Uranium Price Swings in 2007
The year gone by was the warmest in England since 1659. Australia may be doomed to suffer the country's worst drought since the Federation Drought of 1894 - 1902, and at least one Dun & Bradstreet consultant believes if conditions do not improve, the coun...
Uranerz Energy: Developing Uranium Projects in Wyoming
Relatively speaking, it's not saying much, but Wyoming's Powder River Basin is presently the largest uranium producing area in the United States. Cameco's (NYSE: CCJ) Smith Ranch produces over one million pounds of uranium oxide, more than one-third of U....
U.S. Utilities: Uranium Price Too High; Miners Say "Not High Enough"
Nowhere was it more evident of battle lines being drawn between suppliers and end users in the nuclear fuel sector than at the Platts Second Annual Nuclear Fuel Strategies conference on September 26th. Since April, various utility consultants and fuel bro...
Domestic Uranium Industry to Mine 20 Million Pounds in 6 years, Part Two
The Uranium Producers of America (UPA) was formed more than twenty years ago. Over the years, this trade association worked with Congress and state legislators to help improve the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle: uranium mining. Today, it has been re-...
Uranium: At The Center of New Mexico's Nuclear Renaissance
Once the proud center of the Uranium Universe, and until recently the world's largest uranium producer, the city of Grants (New Mexico) nearly collapsed in the 1980s as uranium prices sank into a twenty-year depression. Five thousand uranium miners lost t...
Even Higher Uranium Prices Ahead This Summer, Part Two
What about going into Russia's G8 summit? It appears uranium trading through June could continue to show a very tight supply situation, where sellers continue to set pricing. A recent posting on the Trade Tech LLC website announced the following:
"A nu...
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