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but if you're right, it's huge,
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so, we ask the question.
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Right? We have to ask the question.
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Niger has two uranium mines in the Sahara desert.
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One is flooded.
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The other is run by COGEMA, a French subsidiary
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jointly controlled by the Japanese and Germans.
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Five hundred tons of yellowcake
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is not an off-the-books size transaction.
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It represents a 40% production increase in
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the nation's annual output of uranium.
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A sale that size would leave a huge paper trail.