Infographic: Who controls uranium?

Uranium is a crucial source of clean, reliable baseload power as nuclear energy, powered by uranium, generates electricity without emitting greenhouse gases during operation. When we look at resources through the lens of geopolitical Spheres of Control, the story is telling.

Thanks to Australia and Canada, the Coalition of the Willing commands a dominant 44% share of the world’s uranium resources.

This strong position means the West is well endowed with the mineralization it needs to fuel nuclear power for decades to come—if it can move past public resistance that is often a result of legacy impacts from unregulated past practices than in rational assessment of nuclear energy’s current strong safety record.

(By Anthony Vaccaro; Files from: Ali Ravaghi; Creative: James Alafriz)