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Mike Alkin: The Ultimate Uranium Crash Course

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The Fallout of Fukushima and the Decline of the Uranium Industry

The Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan in March 2011 derailed the growth story of the uranium industry which had a peak market cap of around $150 billion in 2007./nThe industry was valued at four or five billion dollars when the speaker started deep diving into it with the number of companies falling from 500 at peak to just 50./nMost big investment banks covering uranium had disappeared due to lack of business after the Fukushima meltdown disaster./nOver the next year or two after the Fukushima disaster, 54 nuclear power plants representing 13% of global demand were taken offline.

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