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Better Nuclear Energy Stock: Cameco (CCJ) vs. Centrus Energy (LEU)
Yahoo Finance· 2026-03-24 10:10
Uranium comes in several flavors. There's plain old-fashioned yellowcake powdered uranium concentrate. There's low-enriched uranium, whose natural uranium-235 content of 0.7% has been increased to 3% to 5% concentration, so that it can be used in a nuclear power plant. There's even high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) with a U235 content increased past 5% -- as high as almost 20% -- for use in the new generation of high-efficiency small modular reactors. Then there's highly enriched uranium, with U235 ...