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Revision as of 14:46, 2 May 2011 by AndriyK (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Nukem GmbH, together with its subsidiary Nukem Inc., markets nuclear (reprocessed) fuel components and speciality products utilities worldwide. Since the 1970s, Nukem has transitioned from playing a modest role in uranium brokerage to becoming one of the world's largest intermediaries in the international nuclear fuel market.
Today, its sources include the mining operations of Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Company in Uzbekistan, Kazatomprom in Kazakhstan, and Tenex in Russia. The company markets nuclear fuel components to utilities in North and South America, Western Europe and the Far East.
Current projects of Nukem include:
- Dry Spent Fuel Storage Facilities for Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant in Bulgaria;
- Interim Spent Fuel Storage Facility and Solid Waste Management and Storage Facilities at Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania;
- Waste Treatment for the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant;
- PBMR Fuel Sphere Production Facility, Pelindaba in South Africa;
- Industrial Complex for Solid Radwaste Management at Chernobyl in Ukraine.
Products and services in the business areas of decommissioning, management of radioactive waste, as well as engineering and consulting are marketed through the subsidiary Nukem Technologies GmbH.
Effective April 1, 2006, the private equity firm Advent International has taken over Nukem from RWE.