Nukem
NUKEM GmbH, based in Alzenau, Germany, together with its subsidiary company NUKEM, Inc., based in Danbury, Ct. USA, act as market intermediaries in the physical markets for uranium, conversion and enrichment services.
NUKEM is most prominent in the uranium spot market (deliveries in under one year), a venue in which it has sometimes been the single largest supplier. For many years, NUKEM has been among the top five or six uranium suppliers to nuclear utilities world-wide.
Beyond the nuclear fuel business, NUKEM also markets light isotopes (such as lithium-7, used in nuclear reactor operations), as well as beryllium (used in consumer electronics devices).
NUKEM buys and sells uranium in the form of U3O8, uranium hexafluoride and enriched uranium product (EUP), which are the “commoditized” forms of uranium used to make fuel for commercial nuclear reactors.For many years the backbone of NUKEM’s uranium supply business has been its access to uranium produced in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the principal uranium production centers of the former Soviet Union.
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2006 Advent International acquires NUKEM from RWE
1999 NUKEM, Cameco and COGEMA signed a commercial agreement with Techsnabexport (TENEX), for the purchase of natural uranium derived from Russian HEU (HEU Feed Agreement)
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General Information on Isotopes
What is an Isotope?
Isotopes are different nuclides containing the same number of protons (same atomic number) but different in number of neutrons in the nucleus and subsequently different mass number. Isotopes of the same chemical element are different in mass and physical properties but not in their chemical properties.
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