Companies search for uranium ore outside Canada and Australia
With uranium prices finding ever loftier perches, and analysts predicting more nuclear reactors needed to supply the energy demands of a burgeoning global population, the race to find new sources of the yellow cake is heating up under the desert sun of Namibia. The country is one of sub-Saharan Africa's more stable regions, and it now finds itself in the crosshairs of the world’s uranium seekers. Staff writer Anthony Vaccaro visited some of Namibia’s uranium projects and his resulting story appeared in our March 3-9, 2006 issue.
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