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Coronavirus / Cameco To Temporarily Shut UF6 Plant At Port Hope Conversion Facility

By David Dalton
9 April 2020

Company says epidemic is creating ‘increasing challenges’
Cameco To Temporarily Shut UF6 Plant At Port Hope Conversion Facility
Cameco’s Port Hope conversion facility in Ontario, Canada. Photo courtesy Cameco.
Cameco’s UF6 plant at the Port Hope conversion facility in Ontario, Canada, will be placed in a temporary safe shutdown state for about four weeks as the company faces “the increasing challenge” of maintaining an adequate workforce as a result of screening protocols and other measures put in place to deal with the coronavirus health crisis.

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