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Supply of uranium worsening

in 2011 a massive tsunami hit Japan, killed thousands of people and wreaked havoc on the world’s third-largest economy. The tsunami caused the first nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl, with certain security features failing at the Fukushima nuclear reactor, leaking radiation to a nearby town. Not only was this an environmental catastrophe for Japan, but the suppliers of uranium found that suddenly, the promised recovery in uranium was dead.

The world rushed

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