Kazakhstan became the largest supplier of uranium for US nuclear power plant in 2014
Date: 10:20, 06-10-2015.
Almaty. October 6. Silkroadnews - Kazakhstan in 2014 became the largest supplier of uranium for US nuclear power plants, it managed to oust other suppliers, including Russia, reported Tass.
According to the US Department of Energy, last year 100 owners of the nuclear power reactor in the US bought from Kazakhstan 12 million pounds (about 5443 tons) of uranium. This is 23% of all purchases, valued at 53.3 million pounds (24,176 tons), and almost twice as many as in 2013, when the corresponding deliveries from Kazakhstan amounted to about 6.5 million pounds, or about 2948 tons.
"In past years, leading suppliers of uranium to the United States were Australia, Canada and Russia", - indicated the US Energy Department.
