US EditionNiger Selling Uranium from SOMAÏR Mine Sparks International Tensions
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Trucks filled with yellowcake, the uranium concentrate, have left Arlit, in the north of Niger, at the nose of the French nuclear giant Orano (ex-Areva), despite the ban of the World Bank's arbitral tribunal. The junta does not just sell its uranium, it is a strategic actor offering its precious resource to its new partners, Moscow in the lead. And thus reveals an embarrassing truth for Europe: its nuclear sovereignty now depends on regimes that…
By taking over the sale of its uranium, Niger is putting an end to a model established for decades with the French nuclear group Orano. A decision that is at stake for Paris, which loses strategic access to one of the largest deposits in the world.
Niger Selling Uranium from SOMAÏR Mine Sparks International Tensions
Niger’s military government announced that it intends to put uranium produced by the SOMAÏR mine on the international market.Head of the junta, General Abdourahamane Tiani, told state television Tele Sahel that “Niger's legitimate right to dispose of its natural riches to sell them to whoever wants to buy them, under the rules of the market, in complete independence.”Orano has operated uranium mines in Niger for decades and officially retains a …
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