A long-ish article about Jerry Grandey, his Cameco mining company, and the nuclear resurgence.
Most of the world's 434 nuclear power plants already get their fuel from companies like Cameco, but the demand curve is due for a radical shift. Worldwide, more than 30 new nuclear plants are already under construction. And 200 others are in various stages of planning, including 49 in the United States, where the last new plant was approved in 1979.
As energy demand rises and costs escalate, and as pressure mounts for developed countries to rein in CO2 emissions, many see nukes as the only scalable means of churning out cheap electricity and putting a dent in global warming at the same time.
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Silver-haired Grandey is the unlikely wizard behind this next-gen energy company. He got his start in the 1970s as a long-haired public interest attorney working to shut down some of the nuclear power plants that now make up his biggest customers.
His conversion into a nuclear power player, he says, evolved out of a long-held belief that the promise of the technology is sound and that the safety issues he took on as a young lawyer have been addressed.
Grandey has backed up his convictions at considerable risk: He quietly built up Cameco during a long and painful down market, when few others believed that nukes would ever be part of energy's future. "When the world wakes up and rediscovers nuclear," says Grandey, prepping for a meeting in his Saskatoon office, "there is going to be a segment of the investing world that asks, How do I invest in nuclear? We want the answer to be Cameco."
http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/15/news/international/cameco_nuclear.biz2/index.htm
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