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China-Invested Noble Buys Stake in U.S. Uranium Supplier USEC

usec China Invested Noble Buys Stake in U.S. Uranium Supplier USECAccording to the NY Times, “A company here that is partly owned by the Chinese government has quietly purchased a 5.1 percent stake in the only American-owned provider of enriched uranium for use in civilian nuclear reactors. The company that bought the stake, the Noble Group, is the world’s second-largest commodities trading and logistics company after Cargill and is based here. One of its minority owners is the Chinese government’s sovereign wealth fund.

The American company is USEC, which is based in Bethesda, Md., and enriches uranium so that fission can occur in nuclear reactors. It currently supplies enriched uranium for use in the United States, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Noble said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had purchased the shares on the open market from May 25 to June 2.

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