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The Blind River refinery processes uranium concentrates from Cameco's mining operations, as well as from other Canadian and foreign producers.
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  • world's largest commercial uranium refinery
  • 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