Atomic Show #337 – Leigh Curyer, CEO NexGen Energy

About this episode

Leigh Curyer discusses NexGen Energy's transition to uranium production and the implications for the nuclear energy market.

NexGen Energy is a uranium mining company that is nearing the end of a long transition from a successful exploration entity to a uranium producing company. The company is in the final stages of hearings and approvals needed from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to allow it to begin constructing the mine infrastructure for its Rook 1 project . In a term that might be familiar to petroleum energy geologists, Rook 1 is a supergiant resource. Aside: In the petroleum business, a supergiant field is one that contains at least 5 billion barrels of oil. There are more than 250 million pounds of uranium in the measured and indicated mineral resources in the Rook 1 project. Google’s Gemini says that one million pounds of natural uranium contains 31 million barrels of oil equivalent (BOE). It follows that 250 million pounds contains more than 7.5 billion BOE. End Aside. The ore in the Arrow deposit part of Rook 1 has an exceedingly rare uranium concentration that is as high as 69% uranium oxide. On average, the deposit measures out at well over 3%. Leigh Curyer, NexGen’s founder and CEO, visited the Atomic Show to talk about his company’s successful and continuing…

People in this episode

Host: Rod Adams

Guest: Leigh Curyer

Topics covered

• uranium mining
• nuclear energy
• supply chain
• exploration
• mineral resources

Keywords

• uranium
• nuclear energy
• mining
• Rook 1
• supply chain
• exploration
• mineral resources

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NexGen Energy, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Google

Places: Rook 1, Arrow deposit

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