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Chemical plant · Canada

Port Hope Conversion Facility

One of a small number of commercial uranium conversion plants worldwide.

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What happens here

Between the mine and the reactor, uranium has to become uranium hexafluoride so it can be enriched. Only a handful of plants on Earth do this step.

In and out

Goes in

Fluorspar Uranium

Comes out

Outputs for this site are not itemised in the atlas.

Operator

Cameco

One of the largest publicly traded uranium producers, with the highest-grade uranium mines in the world.

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Journeys that pass through this plant

Kazakh uranium to a fuel assembly in a reactor The most tightly watched journey in this atlas: every kilogram is accounted for, at every border.

Port Hope Conversion Facility

What happens here

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Cameco

Journeys that pass through this plant

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