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BLIND RIVER
- world's largest commercial uranium refinery
- 100% owned by Cameco
- includes a uranium trioxide (UO3) processing plant, water treatment plant, power plant, nitric acid recovery system and analytical lab services
- refinery produces UO3, a high-purity intermediate product, shipped to Cameco's Port Hope conversion facility for further processing
- licensed production capacity of 18,000 tonnes of uranium per year
- receives drums of uranium ore concentrates from mines around the world including in Canada, Australia and the United States
- achieved International Standards Organization (ISO) 14001 certification for environmental management systems in 2002
- shipping UO3 to Springfields, UK for toll conversion to UF6 - utilizing unused production capacity
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