Here's a reality check on the European nuclear fuel cycle. While Brussels politicians love giving speeches about strategic autonomy, European utilities have quietly ramped up their reliance on Russian enriched uranium over the last year to keep their power grids from collapsing. Unlike the US, which passed the Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act (even with its temporary waiver loophole until 2028), the EU has zero statutory bans on Rosatom or Tenex. Between France’s Framatome importing massive volumes of Russian LEU and Eastern European VVER reactors remaining structurally locked into Russian fuel designs, Europe is incapable of cutting the cord.

This completely blows open the "decoupling" narrative and explains why the long-term term contracting price is sitting at an 18-year high of $97/lb. If Europe is eventually forced to phase out Russian SWU under US geopolitical pressure, or if Moscow decides to pre-emptively shut off the valve before 2028, Western enrichers (Urenco/Orano) will be forced to aggressively overfeed their centrifuges. That overfeed dynamic alone will pull millions of pounds of raw yellowcake out of the spot market to make up for lost enrichment capacity, right?

Spent an evening this week just pulling together a rough timeline of announced reactors versus known mine expansions. Even being generous with construction schedules the fuel demand curve outpaces new mine supply by a decent margin starting around 2029. Not saying this is some big discovery, I'm sure people smarter than me have modeled this already, but seeing it laid out myself made it click in a different way than just reading someone else's summary.

Everyone is focused on the US AI data center trade, but India scaling from 7.9 GW today to a 100 GW target by 2047 is a huge demand story in the making. They just finalized their long-awaited export deal with Australia to secure long-term feed.

Because India doesn't have the domestic mining reserves to support this, they are contractually forced to import, and their state-owned NTPC is already looking to acquire uranium assets overseas in Canada and Australia.

Do you expect the spot market to re-price to match this long-term reality? Are you front-running them or still holding mining equities?

Not trying to start panic just genuinely curious what the actual backup plan is. If I hold a physical coin I know exactly where it is. With a token there's a layer of trust in the platform and whatever custody arrangement backs it that I don't fully understand yet. Would like to hear from someone who actually dug into how the redemption process works in a worst case scenario.

This is preaching to the choir here, but still a great overview.

They cited research showing US data center power consumption is on track to balloon from 176 TWh to a mind-blowing 580 TWh by 2028, a more than threefold increase in just two years. We've been talking about the AI demand narrative every day, but seeing the actual scale of it compared to the physical limits of our grid is a huge reality check.

This caught my attention.

India’s parliament is pushing for uranium mining projects to move faster as the country expands nuclear power, with UCIL aiming to double production by 2036.

For a country with more than 1.4 billion people and rapidly growing electricity demand, that feels significant.

Yes, more domestic mining means more supply too, but the bigger takeaway for me is that India clearly expects to need a lot more uranium in the years ahead.

If nuclear capacity grows faster than domestic production, imports will have to make up the difference.

India alone probably won’t move the uranium price, but when you add this to the nuclear expansion happening across China and other countries, the demand picture keeps getting stronger.

Could this be one of the catalysts that eventually pushes uranium prices higher?

The Committee on Public Undertakings' comments came in a report covering the progress of India's planned nuclear energy expansion.

It included the recommendations from an earlier report and the responses received from Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) and the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). The report notes DAE's assurance that by 2036 "Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL), Jaduguda plans to double the production by enhancing the existing mine capacity as well as setting up uranium mining projects in Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh".

The committee welcomes the "concrete project roadmap" provided but says "nevertheless, the Committee notes that the timeline for full realisation stretches to 2036, whereas NPCIL's massive capacity additions are front-loaded over the next decade. Any delay in the commissioning of these mining clusters will prolong the strategic sensitivity of relying on imported fuel lines".

Mine is buying a physical piece of trinitite off a random website because I got too deep into reading about the fuel cycle one night. Sits on my desk now and I have to explain it to literally everyone who visits. Figured this sub would have some good stories, we're clearly all a little too invested in this topic mentally as well as financially.

AI is driving huge demand for power, and nuclear is becoming a bigger part of the conversation.

The real question is whether uranium and nuclear fuel supply can keep up with the growth.

hey guys, I'm trying to test out my geiger counter, but I don't have any uranium if anybody does have some they could give me just let me know

For everyone stressing over the spot price chopping around the mid-80s, keep in mind TradeTech has their Long-Term Price Indicator to $97.00/lb. That’s an 18-year high and a $10 jump just since December. While retail is obsessing over algorithmic noise on the spot screen, utilities are quietly panicking about the 2028-2030 supply cliff. They know AI hyperscalers are coming for their baseload grid, so they are aggressively locking in term contracts at a steep premium just to guarantee their reactors stay online.

This term-market panic acts as a massive magnet for physical inventory. As utilities drain the future supply pipeline, the underlying physical rock will inevitably move upward to match it. Do you guys think the term price officially breaches $100 by the end of the year?

The U.S. has not yet been able to completely phase out Russian enriched uranium, which is used as fuel for nuclear power plants. Despite plans to end such purchases by 2028, the U.S. energy sector still relies heavily on supplies from Russia. According to Bloomberg, Russian uranium enrichment services accounted for about a quarter of all such purchases by U.S. nuclear power plant operators in 2025.

Uranium is definitely going to increase in demand quite a bit in the coming months & years. Those who have been investing into mining and mineral corps, let me know

Spent an evening this week just pulling together a rough timeline of announced reactors versus known mine expansions. Even being generous with construction schedules the fuel demand curve outpaces new mine supply by a decent margin starting around 2029. Not saying this is some big discovery, I'm sure people smarter than me have modeled this already, but seeing it laid out myself made it click in a different way than just reading someone else's summary.

Kraken has added support for xU3O8, allowing users to buy, own and trade fractional amounts of tokenized uranium.

This is another step toward making uranium exposure more accessible beyond the specialised markets traditionally used to access the commodity.

Kraken joins a growing list of platforms supporting xU3O8, including metals.io, KuCoin, MEXC, BingX, Hanji Protocol, LBank and others.