This vast Central Asian nation of 15.3 million also has coal, gold and uranium.
For these reasons, spot uranium prices are up something like 70% since June of last year.
Uranium stocks have sold off dramatically as the nuclear tragedy in Japan continues to unfold.
Nuclear weapons, too, can be produced using either uranium enriched to weapons-grade or plutonium.
Inwentash and Pinetree, indirectly, also own stakes in Mega Uranium, which aspires to mine the stuff.
Only this weekend David Miliband condemned Iran's latest plan to build more uranium enrichment plants.
Iran is mulling over a proposal to stop processing uranium in exchange for economic incentives.
Most are run by universities and use low-enriched uranium rather than highly enriched uranium.
But the fact that the company was handling highly enriched uranium was never widely publicized.
Radioactive elements - such as uranium - are unstable and break down over time.
Australia's governing Labor party has voted to overturn its long-standing ban on exporting uranium to India.
All commercial enrichment methods involve first gasifying the uranium with fluorine, creating the gas uranium hexafluoride.
When uranium comes out of the ground it is milled into a powder called yellowcake.
Both methods repeat their process hundreds of times, enriching the uranium in tiny increments.
Google the words ''investing in uranium'' and you'll see a flood of hits, newsletters and advice.
Most uranium mined from WWII until roughly 1970 was driven by military propulsion, weapons and stockpiles.
Luckily, as an investor in uranium, you don't have to bet on a nuclear renaissance.
In the United States, half of the uranium is obtained from obsolete nuclear missiles.
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Adit aims to put 70% of its assets into uranium, the rest into nuclear companies.
Kyrgyzstan, where the U.S. maintains a military base, has gold, uranium and mercury and hydroelectric energy.
The company mines uranium, makes nuclear fuel, designs and builds reactors and reprocesses spent fuel.
This, he says, would squeeze 20 times more power out of uranium than current technology does.
There are sizeable quantities of uranium on the world market, although the price has recently soared.
In many countries planning restrictions have become more onerous since uranium's heyday in the 1970s.
Those obstacles have not deterred several new firms that hope to strike it rich with uranium.
Iran insists its purposes are purely civilian, asserting it needs enriched uranium to make medical isotopes.
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Concerns have been raised about the legality of weapon testing using depleted uranium in southern Scotland.
Iron, uranium and rare earths lie underground, but opinions differ over how to extract them.
The uranium is isolated, concentrated and refined into uranium oxide, also known as yellowcake.
One metal, though, which has received little attention but poses atomic possibilities, is uranium.
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