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Rodman: Uranium enrichers will shift from suppliers to net buyers

Adam Rodman · Adam Rodman – The Case for Nuclear (Climate Solutions EP.4, Capital Allocators EP.304) · Mar 27, 2023 · at 25:46

Adam Rodman, founder and CIO of Segra Capital Management, explains how losing access to Russian enrichment shifts Western enrichment mechanics from underfeeding to overfeeding.

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“What the market hasn't fully digested yet, because this market moves in slow motion, is that on a go forward basis, you probably aren't going to get supply from enrichers, and it's very likely that you actually have demand from enrichers, which is a process that's known as going from underfeeding to overfeeding.”

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The claim, plainly

Uranium enrichers will transition from being secondary suppliers of uranium to net sources of uranium demand as the industry moves from underfeeding to overfeeding.

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Assessment

Major nuclear fuel market analysis providers, including UxC and TradeTech, confirmed that Western and global uranium enrichers transitioned from net secondary suppliers (via underfeeding) to net sources of uranium feed demand (via overfeeding). Following the 2022 disruption to Russian enrichment access and soaring SWU prices reaching over $160–$177/SWU by 2024–2026, enrichers raised operational tails assays to maximize enrichment throughput, eliminating an estimated 15–20 million lbs U3O8/year of secondary supply and creating incremental uranium feed demand of 10–30 million lbs U3O8/year.

UxC's Q2 2023 Uranium Market Outlook confirmed Western enrichment operational parameters shifted away from underfeeding toward overfeeding, ending enrichment-based inventory overhang.
TradeTech and UxC market reports (2023–2026) documented that the elimination of underfeeding and commencement of overfeeding resulted in a net market shift of 25–50 million lbs U3O8/year toward feed demand.
Industry analyses in 2026 confirmed Western enrichers such as Urenco and Orano raised operational tails assays to optimize centrifuge capacity amidst elevated SWU prices.

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[1] world-nuclear-news.org [2] reddit.com [3] reddit.com [4] iaea.org [5] investing.com [6] bsic.it [7] world-nuclear.org [8] sprott.com

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assessed as of 2026-09-02

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