Uranium Industry Annual, employment, nuclear, production, uranium 2. U.S. suppliers are U.S.-based firms that exchange, loan, purchase, or sell uranium within and outside the U.S. uranium market. They can include uranium brokers, converters, enrichers, fabricators, traders, producers, and uranium property holders.
Foreign suppliers are non-U.S. based firms that market uranium into and from the United States.
In addition, this chapter also presents enrichment activities, the amount of uranium loaded into commercial nuclear power reactors, and the year-end 1999 status of uranium inventories. Compared with 1998, the quantity is an increase of 12 percent, but a decrease in price of 4 percent. The 26 sellers of uranium to U.S. utilities with 1999 deliveries are shown in the following list. A pricing mechanism was reported for each price of a uranium delivery. For the quartile distributions, each contain a group of U.S. utilities, sorted in increasing order by their overall average price for its deliveries, and provides the aggregated quantity and its average price for each distribution.