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Restarting uranium mining in Western Australia could create up to 9000 jobs and produce uranium worth more than AUD1 billion a year, a 12-month inquiry by the state's Chamber of Commerce and Industry has found. It recommends that the state overturn its ban on uranium mining to unlock significant economic benefits.

Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chamber-calls-for-Western-Australia-to-overturn-ur

More than 15 years after mining was suspended at McClean Lake in Saskatchewan, joint venture partners Orano Canada Inc and Denison Mines Corp have announced that production is to restart using the patented Surface Access Borehole Resource Extraction (SABRE) mining method.

Date: Friday, 26 January 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Mining-to-resume-at-McClean-Lake

Canada’s Cameco has announced that acquisition of?Westinghouse Electric Company in a strategic partnership with Brookfield Asset Management alongside Brookfield Renewable Partners and institutional partners has been completed. Cameco now owns a 49% interest and Brookfield a 51% in Westinghouse.

Date: Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscameco-and-brookfield-complete-acquisition-of-westinghouse-11297387

Cameco Corporation and Brookfield Asset Management, alongside its affiliate Brookfield Renewable Partners and institutional partners, now own the company which built the world's first commercial pressurised water reactor more than 60 years ago.

Date: Thursday, 09 November 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Westinghouse-acquisition-completed

The first batch of uranium mined at the Eastern Mining and Enrichment Plant in Ukraine has been sent to Canada where it will be converted into natural uranium hexafluoride as part of the company's agreement with Cameco.

Date: Tuesday, 19 September 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Energoatom-sends-first-uranium-mined-in-Ukraine-to

In what it describes as an "unplanned event", the company has revised downwards this year's expected production for its Canadian uranium mining operations, citing equipment reliability issues at Cigar Lake and continued uncertainty over planned production at Key Lake as it ramps up after a lengthy period in care and maintenance.

Date: Tuesday, 05 September 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Cameco-revises-2023-Canadian-production-forecast

Ukrainian nuclear utility Energoatom and Canada’s Cameco have signed an agreement finalising implementation of the programme to export all of Ukraine's uranium production for processing in Canada to produce fuel for Ukraine’s NPPs. This came during a visit to Canada by Energoatom President Petro Kotin, who had signed the original contracts in London in March.

Date: Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsukraine-energoatom-and-cameco-finalise-uranium-agreement-10769622