Nukem Energy

Nukem GmbH, together with its subsidiary Nukem Inc., markets nuclear fuel components and speciality products utilities worldwide. Since the 1970s, Nukem has transitioned from playing a modest role in uranium brokerage to becoming one of the world's largest intermediaries in the international nuclear fuel market.

Not to be confused with Duke Nukem or Nukem Technologies.
Nukem Energy GmbH
IndustryNuclear fuel
Founded1 April 1960 (1960-04-01) as Nuklear-Chemie und -Metallurgie GmbH
FounderDegussa
Rio Tinto
Mallinckrodt
Headquarters
Alzenau
,
Germany
ParentCameco
Websitewww.nukem.de

History

Nukem was established in 1960 by Degussa, Rio Tinto and Mallinckrodt. In 1965, RWE acquired 25% of shares.

Effective April 1, 2006, the private equity firm Advent International has taken over Nukem.

In 2007, Nukem sold its subsidiaries NUKEM Ltd. to Freyssinet SAS, NUKEM Corp. to EnergySolutions, NIS Ingenieure and Assistance Nucleaire S.A. to Siempelkamp. On 14 December 2009, Nukem sold its subsidiary Nukem Technologies, which is dealing with nuclear power plant decommissioning, waste management and engineering services, to Russian Atomstroyexport for €23.5 million.[1]

In 2012, the company was acquired by Cameco.[2]

Operations

The company markets nuclear fuel components to utilities in North and South America, Western Europe and the Far East.

gollark: It's not an infrastructure problem, it's a this-is-computationally-very-hard problem, and a horribly-centralizes-power problem, and a bad-incentives-to-be-efficient problem, and a responding-to-local-information problem.
gollark: And in general lots of things can be done better, or *at all*, if you have a giant plant somewhere producing resources for big fractions of the world.
gollark: Some resources (lithium and such are big issues nowadays) only exist in a few places, so you have to ship from there.
gollark: This also doesn't seem practical.
gollark: It isn't really, though; it seems like it would be more like whoever runs "production" just deciding who gets things.

References
  1. "Atomstroyexport buys NPP decommissioning technology". Kommersant. RIA Novosti. 2009-12-25. Retrieved 2009-12-26.
  2. "Cameco to buy Nukem Energy". World Nuclear News. 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2012-05-15.
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