RE: Kazakhstan's Uranium Industry

[Bruce Bugg <BRUCEB@psc.state.ga.us>]

I wonder if this means we will have more or less Yellowcake showing up
on our shores. We had 40-odd container loads of it come in through the
port of Savannah back in early 1996. The cyrillic "radioactive" placards
make good conversation pieces...

Bruce Bugg

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Philip Hypes [SMTP:phypes@lanl.gov]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 22, 1999 17:02
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Kazakhstan's Uranium Industry
> 
> Thought this might interest someone out there in RADSAFE land:
> 
> KAZAKHSTAN:
> 
> WESTERN CAPITAL TO TAKE OVER KAZAKHSTAN'S URANIUM INDUSTRY. The
> government
> of Kazakhstan has decided to sell to Western companies a controlling
> stake
> in Kazakh Atomic Industry, the largest uranium producer and exporter
> in
> Central Asia and one of the largest in the former Soviet Union. The
> company
> consists of three uranium mines, an enrichment plant (the flagship
> Ulba
> metallurgical complex) and a prospecting enterprise. Negotiations
> toward a
> takeover are well advanced between the Astana government and two of
> the
> world's leading uranium producers: Cogema of France and Cameco of
> Canada and
> the United States. Kazakhstan's move is consistent with its policy of
> opening up its vast metallic ore deposits to Western rather than
> Russian
> firms.
> 	In announcing this breakthrough, Kazakh Atomic Industry Chairman
> Muhtar
> Yakishev made clear that the strategic investors are expected to come
> up
> with a program to modernize Kazakh Atomic Industry and to secure and
> diversify its export outlets. The latter issue is especially topical
> in
> light of the anti-dumping proceedings currently underway in the United
> States against the company (Habar, June 10, 14-15). [Jamestown
> foundation
> 6/17]
> 
> 
> ___________________________________________________________
> Philip Hypes
> Los Alamos National Laboratory
> Safeguards Science and Technology Group (NIS 5)
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