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PORT HOPE

Summary

  • the only uranium conversion facility in Canada and one of only four in the western world
  • 100% owned by Cameco
  • facilities include uranium dioxide (UO2) and uranium hexafluoride (UF6) processing plants and technology development laboratories
  • the only supplier of UO2 for Canadian-made Candu reactors
  • licensed to produce 12,500 tonnes per year of UF6 and 2,800 tonnes per year of UO2
  • the only uranium conversion facility that uses a wet process to make uranium tetrafluoride (UF4) from UO2 – thereby reducing hydrogen fluoride (HF) consumption
  • certified to International Standards Organization (ISO) 14001
  • more than 400 people are employed at the Port Hope conversion facility including the Cameco innovation and technology development - research centre

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PORT HOPE CONVERSION FACILITY

Port Hope conversion facility

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Last Reviewed: October 23, 2009