ST. PETERSBURG (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 26th July, 2023) A subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom is finishing the construction of a uranium processing plant in Tanzania and will move to a serious industrial volume of its extraction and processing in the coming years, Russian Ambassador to Tanzania Andrey Avetisyan told Sputnik.
"Rosatom's subsidiary Mantra is running a uranium mining project in Tanzania. As far as I know, they are currently finishing the construction of a uranium processing plant, and in the coming months, I think, we will hear that this small pilot project has been launched," Avetisyan said.
"In the coming years, if it develops successfully, the company will move to a serious industrial volume of uranium mining and processing," he added.
Rosatom told Sputnik ahead of the second Russia-Africa Summit, due July 27-28 in St. Petersburg, that the corporation plans to launch uranium ore mining and processing in Tanzania in 2023-2025.
