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Is that right? Almost 50% of the world’s uranium comes from Khazakstan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_production https://en.wikip

• ed_balls 4y ago
  Ukraine has a large deposit of uranium as well.
• x86x87 4y ago
  Does production == having the resource? Asking because I think it's possible that many places don't bother to mine it due to a combination of regulations and cost. LE: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_reserves https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium... So, Australia is where most of the uranium is :| Also, Russia does seem to have significant reserves that could be mined.
• alexott 4y ago
  My official study was in the area of uranium enrichment. The situation in Soviet Union was always following - mostly Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan mined the raw uranium and did first enrichment pass (I grew up in one of that areas), and then final enrichment was done in Russia. I’m not involved into that anymore for more than 20 years, but I doubt that situation has changed significantly as it requires significant capital investment, plus know-how…