Uranium: Staying Long

From The Maven Letter: 28 February 2024
The spot price of uranium dropped 10% over the last two weeks…and some investors freaked out.
I am not freaking out. In fact, I’m using this pullback to buy more uranium exposure. Let me explain why
Uranium doubled in price over the last year because there is not nearly enough supply to meet demand. The market is also being split into two halves, east and west, and that is making the supply gap worse, especially for the west, where production is lower and demand keeps ramping higher.
Canaccord just issued a report called The State of the (Nuclear) Union in the United States, which summarizes all the legislative and financial supports for nuclear underway across the country. Federal legislation has gotten fair coverage already – major support for nuclear fuel and power in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, for instance – but there has been a lot of pro-nuclear movement on the state level as well. Below I’ve listed some – not all, just some – of those.
- Virginia: new legislation promoting nuclear power, de-risking project permitting, and establishing a Virginia Nuclear Innovation
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