Recently, the American Senate published a report on Wall Street Bank Involvement with Physical Commodities. It turns out that Goldman Sachs investment bank speculates with 12.8m lbs (5.800 tonnes) of U3O8 and an unknown amount of UF6. The bank doesn't physically move the uranium, but acquires ownership title when uranium is stored at:
U3O8 uranium products
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UF6 uranium products
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The Netherlands has a limited list for which purposes ionising materials can be applied. Amongst those are for example energy production and uranium enrichment. Speculation, and storage and transport for speculation are not allowed. Recently, a permission was issued by Dutch authorities for transporting uranium through the Netherlands to ao. Comurhex France and for UF6 to Urenco, Almelo. Laka has appealed these permissions, as it was likely that uranium to be transported was going to be used for speculation - a non-allowed purpose.
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