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http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=f65c5538-bb56-45eb-9f0d-4b6d28d90d01
“Large convoy will move Iraqi uranium to Ontario facility”
Cheryl Cornacchia , Canwest News Service
Published: Sunday, July 06, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “MONTREAL - The huge shipment of concentrated uranium that arrived by ship in Montreal from Iraq on Saturday will be transported by truck this week through Quebec to northern Ontario.
About 50 trucks will be required to move the uranium, thought to be the last stocks of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program, to a processing facility operated by Cameco Corp. in Blind River, Ont., a company official said Sunday.
The 550 tonnes of concentrated natural uranium, also known as yellowcake, was purchased in a U.S.-brokered deal reported to be worth tens of millions of dollars.
Cameco is the world’s largest publicly traded uranium company.
The shipment “is not top secret,” said Charlie Martens, a superintendent of analytical services at Cameco’s Blind River plant. “It’s just because of where it’s coming from” that there is so much interest.”
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