Niger Uranium Shock: SOMAIR Mine, Orano Dispute and the New Global Nuclear Power Map
As of 1 December 2025, Niger’s decision to put uranium from the nationalised SOMAIR mine on the open market – and the reported movement of a massive uranium convoy in defiance of an international tribunal – is reshaping the geopolitics of nuclear fuel. NucNet+2Reuters+2 A uranium convoy tests court orders and colonial legacies On 1 December 2025, French nuclear fuel group Orano said a convoy of uranium concentrate (“yellowcake”) had left its expropriated SOMAIR mine near Arlit in northern Niger and warned that the shipment posed “serious safety and security risks”.Reuters According to a security source quoted by Reuters, around
