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The sector tape — Uranium · Wed, Oct 14
Uranium fut. 89.7 SPUT 18.22 -1.99% URA 35.62 -4.71% URNM 42.53 -4.45% Cameco 82.04 -4.77% Kazatomprom 62.8 +1.13% NexGen 7.99 -5.73% UEC 7.77 -5.76% Paladin 7.28 -0.00% Centrus 122.29 -8.93% Constellation 281.53 -4.82% Oklo 29.53 -7.10% NuScale 5.91 -8.94% BWXT 136.66 -1.59%

Uranium & Nuclear Energy Corner

Thursday, October 8, 2026 · The Market Wrap

Uranium & Nuclear Energy Corner

Thursday, 2026-10-08 · covering the last 24h

Upstream — mining & supply

Kazatomprom shareholders approve the China uranium sale, let the Russia contract fail on mass abstention. Results of the absentee vote flagged as open in Wednesday's edition: the spot-term U3O8 sale to China's SNURDC passed with 88.63% in favour (6.49% against, 4.88% withheld); the supply contract with Rosatom's Uranium One Group needed only a simple majority but failed anyway, as 88.34% of voting shares were withheld (5.39% for, 6.27% against) — Kazatomprom did not explain the abstentions or disclose price, volume or delivery terms for either deal. Shareholders separately approved ending board member Yelzhas Otynshiyev's term (96.26% in favour) and installing Samruk-Kazyna's Zhandos Kairgeldi in his place. Kazatomprom (RNS via Investegate) · Kursiv Media

Midstream — conversion, enrichment & fuel

No material conversion, enrichment, HALEU or fabrication news cleared the bar this window.

Nuclear energy — reactors, industry & demand

DOE opens a $50m funding round for silicon-carbide fuel cladding. The Office of Nuclear Energy's competitive solicitation, announced October 5 and not yet reflected in this digest, funds up to three years of work to fabricate full-length (12-foot) SiC-clad fuel rods for irradiation testing in research reactors, aiming to generate the performance data the NRC needs before the material can be licensed for commercial use; SiC is pitched as a safety and cost upgrade over today's zirconium alloy cladding. US Department of Energy

The Chatter

A proper look across X, Substack and fund/analyst notes (Trader Ferg, The Oregon Group, Uranium Insider's public posts, Sprott, FNArena's Uranium Week) again turned up nothing freshly argued and dated to this window — the Kazatomprom split vote is the obvious hook for commentary but hadn't produced a distinct take as this edition was researched, so no items today rather than recycling the news coverage above as third-party opinion.

Informational only — summaries of public sources and third-party commentary; not investment advice.

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