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ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE ATHABASCA BASIN

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To the World Nuclear Association, 2% uranium ore is high grade. At 14%, 16% and even 20% uranium, the grades in the Athabasca Basin are astounding analysts and investors around the world. Derek Hamill, Zimtu Capital Corp.’s new head of research, tells The Energy Report about where the investment dollars are moving in the Athabasca Basin, and what areas and companies are worth watching going forward.

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Canada set to sell uranium to China

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Cameco Corp. (CCO-T 21.96 0.35 1.62%) will begin exporting uranium to China soon, according to the premier of the resource-rich province of Saskatchewan.

Saskatchewan-based Cameco signed an agreement in 2010 to supply China Nuclear Energy Industry Corporation, a unit of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), with 23 million pounds of uranium concentrate through 2020.

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$100+/POUND U3O8 NEEDED TO SATISFY STEALTH DEMAND

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What’s the easiest way to track the ups and downs of energy markets? Watch what governments are doing rather than what they are saying, says S&A Resource Report Editor Matt Badiali. He has been watching behind-the-scenes nuclear energy importing in Germany and Japan and has concluded that the uranium market has hit bottom and is coming back up. What companies could benefit from these gyrations? He has an answer to that one in this Energy Report interview, plus some words of wisdom on U.S. oil and gas bottlenecks.

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Japan’s Election Results Have Uranium Bulls Ready to Charge

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The results from Japan’s general election Sunday may be a bellwether event for nuclear power. In a landslide win, Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) claimed 294 out of the 480 seats in the lower house of the Diet Sunday, defeating anti-nuclear opponents with a platform focused on economic issues and foreign policy. The Energy Report reached out to leading North American analysts for their take on Japan’s changing of the guard and its effect on uranium stocks.

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