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Release Date: September 27, 2012

Table 4.10 Uranium Reserves, 2008 (Million Pounds Uranium Oxide)

Table 4.10 Uranium Reserves,¹ 2008
(Million Pounds Uranium Oxide)

State

Forward-Cost ² Category (dollars ³ per pound)

$50 or Less

$100 or Less

Total

539

1,227

Wyoming

220

446

New Mexico

179

390

Arizona, Colorado, Utah

198

Texas

Others ⁴

154

¹The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) category of uranium reserves is equivalent to the internationally reported category of "Reasonably Assured Resources" (RAR).	Notes: � Estimates are at end of year. � See "Uranium Oxide" in Glossary. � For updates, see http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/reserves/ures.html.
²Forward costs include the costs for power and fuel, labor, materials, insurance, severance and ad valorem taxes, and applicable administrative costs. Past capital costs are considered "sunk" costs and mining of the individual deposits may or may not return such costs to investors. Sunk costs for such items as exploration and land acquisition are excluded as are the costs for income taxes, profit, and the cost of money. The forward costs used to estimate U.S. uranium ore reserves are independent of the price at which uranium produced from the estimated reserves might be sold in the commercial market. Reserves values in forward-cost categories are cumulative; that is, the quantity at each level of forward cost includes all reserves at the lower cost in that category.	Web Page: For related information, see http://www.eia.gov/nuclear/.
³Prices are not adjusted for inflation. See "Nominal Dollars" in Glossary.	Sources: EIA, U.S. Uranium Reserves Estimates (July 2010), Table 1.
⁴Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Virginia, and Washington.

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