It has been writing about the Kazakh government's plans to host a nuclear fuel bank under UN control at Ulba metallurgy plant.
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Cabot in Germany, Starck in Germany, Ulba in Kazakhstan, a handful in China: maybe a couple of others but not many.
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The ex-Soviet producer of beryllium, a plant called Ulba, was trying to export that metal to the US. The sole US producer (in any volume at least) was Brush Wellman.