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Uranium Awakens From Five-Month Slumber As UBS Warns Market Is “Tightening Structurally” <\/span><\/p>\n

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Bloomberg’s continuous front-month uranium futures contract (UXA1 Comdty<\/strong>) briefly surged above $100 a pound in late January, driven by tightening supplies, renewed government support for nuclear power, and rising electricity demand from the AI infrastructure boom.<\/p>\n

Uranium futures then retreated and remained range-bound between $84 and $87 for five months. But momentum has returned in August, with prices approaching $89 a pound, the highest level since early February.<\/p>\n

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The ongoing theme is that years of underinvestment have limited mine supply growth despite rising reactor demand. New uranium projects can take a decade to develop, leaving producers unable to respond quickly to higher prices. Output is also concentrated among a handful of miners, such as\u00a0Cameco.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Goldman analysts have routinely pointed back<\/a> to these charts, which show that the uranium market has entered a deficit and that the gap will only widen as new reactor demand comes online in the years ahead.<\/p>\n

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China is firmly leading the global expansion and is expected to become the world’s largest nuclear power market by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n

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UBS analyst George Eadie noted earlier this month, “Continued strength in term pricing and signs of accelerating utility procurement offer further evidence that the uranium market is tightening structurally<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Regular readers know that nuclear power sits at the intersection of several of our highest-conviction themes: powering up America, reindustrializing the nation, and meeting the massive new electricity demands of the AI buildout.<\/p>\n

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