Uranium: resources, production, and demand - Red book 2004

Since the mid-1960s, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) periodically have published current data about the worldwide uranium production, uranium reserves, and future uranium requirements. The most recent study of Spring 2004 features approx. 4 588 million t of U in the form of low-cost known conventional reserves, which represent sufficient uranium resources to cover the period of the analysis up until mid of this century. Diversification of the countries supplying natural uranium, transfers of military material into civilian uses, and technical progress in fuel fabrication and use, in addition, guarantee stable market conditions.