Russia is the world's seventh-largest producer of uranium, with an output of 2,846 t in 2020. The country's uranium reserves reach 256,000 t.

Nuclear generation capacity is expected to grow by 2.6% annually, reaching 615 GWe by 2040

"Timely implementation of this project is of national importance: this is a particularly significant task to provide the nuclear industry with natural uranium, a challenge facing the entire Mining Division,"

Kazakhstan’s state-owned uranium extraction and nuclear company Kazatomprom has extended its 20% production cut until the end of 2023,

The governments of France, Germany and the UK on 14 April responded to Iran's plans to enrich to 60% with "grave concern",

Uranium companies in Australia and Canada have announced purchases of physical uranium holdings.

HALEU fuel is enriched to between 5% and 20% uranium-235 and will be required by many advanced reactor designs that are currently under development, but is not yet commercially available in the USA.

Amendments to the agreement include phased reductions of US imports of uranium from Russia as well as the periodic updating of the import quotas.

The Nuclear Fuel Working Group, established by Trump in 2019 to undertake a full analysis of national security considerations with respect to nuclear fuel supply chain after a Section 232 Petition from two US uranium miners asked for a quota on uranium imports, has already called for action be taken to strengthen the country's uranium mining industry.

The deposit - located in the interior of the state of Ceará - is the largest discovered uranium reserve in Brazil. An estimated 142,200 tonnes of uranium is inter-mixed with phosphates. The deposit has exploitable reserves of 79.5 million tonnes of ore, at grades of 11% P2O5 and 0.0998% U3O8, equating to about 8.9 million tonnes of P2O5 and 79.3 thousand tonnes of U3O8.