A GOOD BEGINNING

One of the important goals of Ulba Metallurgical Plant’s Uranium Operations is to expand cooperation with foreign partners.

Thus, in December, UMP concluded a three-year contract with Orano for processing their uranium-containing materials. This is a new customer for UO that UMP has not yet worked with before.

Moreover, Uranium Operations delegation consisting of Konstantin Kuzmin, Director, Evgeniy Mozgovoy, Deputy Director – Production Preparation and Olesya Sidorova, Manager – Marketing & Strategic Planning paid a technical visit to China as a part of dry reconversion project at CJNF’s production site (CNEIC subsidiary). Partners were invited to consider the possibility of participating in the project in order to introduce dry reconversion technology at Ulba Metallurgical Plant.

During the visit, UMP JSC delegation experienced the scale of an industrial plant firsthand, assessed used equipment and advantages of the applied technology. CJNF dry reconversion shop specialists fully answered all questions of the Ulba delegation and provided full technical information on the line.

UMP JSC and CNNC (parent company), CNEIC and CJNF have a long and fruitful cooperation.

After a personal familiarization with dry reconversion process, Uranium Operations plans to receive a commercial offer for this line from Chinese side, conduct a thorough evaluation and comparison with proposals from other companies. And then... then the final choice will be made in favor of one of the suppliers.