Niger Mulls Nuclear Power Plant to Exploit Its Uranium Resources

Niger, one of the world’s top producers of uranium, is considering the construction a nuclear power plant to exploit its own resources after export prices of the fuel fell following the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan.

“We have been exporting raw materials without realizing the expected benefits as prices dropped after Fukushima,” Salamatou Djibo Gourouza, presidential adviser on energy and mining, said in an interview in Kwale, Kenya on Wednesday. “Nuclear plants are a better way of ensuring our country gets real benefit from the massive uranium deposits.”