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Uranium Energy Corp. (UEC) Q2 2026 Earnings Call March 10, 2026 11:00 AM EDT

Company Participants

Amir Adnani - President, CEO & Director
Brent Berg - Senior Vice President of U.S. Operations

Conference Call Participants

Brian Lee - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division
Alexander Pearce - BMO Capital Markets Equity Research
Joseph Reagor - ROTH Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division
Justin Chan - SCP Resource Finance LP, Research Division

Presentation

Operator

Good day, and welcome to the Uranium Energy Corp.'s Fiscal 2026 Second Quarter Results Conference Call. Today's call will be hosted by Amir Adnani, President and CEO.
**Uranium Energy Corp. (UEC) 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ**
2026๋…„ 3์›” 10์ผ ์˜ค์ „ 11์‹œ (๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋™๋ถ€ ํ‘œ์ค€์‹œ)

**ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ฐธ์„์ž**

์•„๋ฏธ๋ฅด ์•„๋“œ๋‚˜๋‹ˆ(Amir Adnani) - ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž(CEO) ๋ฐ ์ด์‚ฌ
๋ธŒ๋ ŒํŠธ ๋ฒ„๊ทธ(Brent Berg) - ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ

**์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ์ฐธ์„์ž**

๋ธŒ๋ผ์ด์–ธ ๋ฆฌ(Brian Lee) - ๊ณจ๋“œ๋งŒ์‚ญ์Šค ๊ทธ๋ฃน(Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.), ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
์•Œ๋ ‰์‚ฐ๋” ํ”ผ์–ด์Šค(Alexander Pearce) - BMO ์บํ”ผํƒˆ ๋งˆ์ผ“(BMO Capital Markets) ์ฃผ์‹ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜
์กฐ์…‰ ๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ(Joseph Reagor) - ๋กœ์Šค ์บํ”ผํƒˆ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์Šค(ROTH Capital Partners, LLC), ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
์ €์Šคํ‹ด ์ฐฌ(Justin Chan) - SCP ๋ฆฌ์†Œ์Šค ํŒŒ์ด๋‚ธ์Šค(SCP Resource Finance LP), ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ

**๋ฐœํ‘œ**

**์‚ฌํšŒ์ž**
์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ, Uranium Energy Corp.์˜ 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์€ ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž(CEO)์ธ ์•„๋ฏธ๋ฅด ์•„๋“œ๋‚˜๋‹ˆ(Amir Adnani)๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜์‹ค ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Also joining for the Q&A session of today's call are Josephine Man, Chief Executive Officer; Scott Melbye, Executive Vice President; and Brent Berg, Senior Vice President, U.S. Operations. [Operator Instructions]. Please note, this event is being recorded. Today's call will run approximately 15 minutes for prepared remarks followed by Q&A. [Operator Instructions]. I would now like to turn the conference over to Amir Adnani, President and CEO. Please go ahead. Amir Adnani
President, CEO & Director

Thank you, operator, and good morning, everyone. A presentation accompanying today's call is available on our website.
์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์˜ ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์„ธ์…˜์—๋Š” Josephine Man ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž, Scott Melbye ์ „๋ฌด์ด์‚ฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Brent Berg ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€ ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์šด์˜์ž ์ง€์นจ]. ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋กœ, ๋ณธ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋…น์Œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์€ ์•ฝ 15๋ถ„๊ฐ„์˜ ์ค€๋น„๋œ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ํ›„ ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์„ธ์…˜์ด ์ด์–ด์งˆ ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์šด์˜์ž ์ง€์นจ]. ์ด์ œ Amir Adnani ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž๋‹˜๊ป˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.

**Amir Adnani ์‚ฌ์žฅ, ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ**

์šด์˜์ž๋‹˜, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„, ์ข‹์€ ์•„์นจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋Š” ์ €ํฌ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์—์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Some of the commentary today will include forward-looking statements, and I would encourage everyone to review the cautionary language on Slide 2 of the presentation. With that, let's begin with highlights from the quarter. This quarter reflected continued execution of our long-term strategy, building America's first and only vertically integrated uranium fuel supply chain from mining through refining and conversion. What differentiates UEC is the scale of our asset base.์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์—๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์˜ˆ์ธก ์ง„์ˆ ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ 2ํŽ˜์ด์ง€์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์ฃผ์˜ ๋ฌธ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ถŒ๊ณ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ด์ œ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ฃผ์š” ๋‚ด์šฉ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์ „๋žต์ธ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ตœ์ดˆ์ด์ž ์œ ์ผํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ง ํ†ตํ•ฉ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง(์ฑ„๊ตด๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ •์ œ ๋ฐ ์ „ํ™˜๊นŒ์ง€) ๊ตฌ์ถ•์ด ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹คํ–‰๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. UEC์˜ ์ฐจ๋ณ„์ ์€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์ž์‚ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We control the largest uranium resource base in the United States, which provides the foundation for decades of staged production growth as nuclear energy expands and supply chains increasingly shift back towards domestic fuel security. This is in strategic alignment with the strengthening U.S. policy support and anticipated structural supply deficit. During the quarter, we also demonstrated the advantage of our unhedged marketing strategy, we sold 200,000 pounds of U3O8 and $101 per pound approximately 25% above the quarterly average price of about $80 per pound.์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ตœ๋Œ€ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ์ž์› ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์›์ž๋ ฅ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์˜ ํ™•๋Œ€์™€ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง์ด ๊ตญ๋‚ด ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ์•ˆ๋ณด๋กœ ์ ์ฐจ ํšŒ๊ท€ํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์  ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ „๋žต์€ ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์ •์ฑ…์  ์ง€์›๊ณผ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ๋ถ€์กฑ๊ณผ ์ „๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋น„ํ—ค์ง€(unhedged) ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ „๋žต์˜ ์ด์  ๋˜ํ•œ ์ž…์ฆํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋‹น 101๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— 20๋งŒ ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ์˜ U3O8์„ ํŒ๋งคํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋‹น ์•ฝ 80๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜€๋˜ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํ‰๊ท  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ฝ 25% ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our strategy has been consistent, maintain a strong balance sheet, hold physical uranium inventory and sell opportunistically when pricing supports value creation for shareholders. Those sales further strengthened our financial position. We ended the quarter with $818 million in liquidity and no debt, maintaining one of the strongest balance sheets in the uranium sector. At the same time, we continued advancing the broader strategy that underpins UEC's long-term growth, expanding beyond mining into refining and conversion to help address both a critical and structural gap in the U.S. nuclear fuel cycle.์ €ํฌ ์ „๋žต์€ ์ผ๊ด€๋˜๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ƒํƒœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ , ์‹ค๋ฌผ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ์žฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ฃผ์ฃผ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์— ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ํ˜•์„ฑ๋  ๋•Œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์•„ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํŒ๋งค๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ํ•œ์ธต ๋” ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ 8์–ต 1,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์œ ๋™์„ฑ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌด๋ถ€์ฑ„ ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜์—ฌ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ƒํƒœํ‘œ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์ž๋ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์™€ ๋™์‹œ์—, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” UEC์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์ด ๋˜๋Š” ํฌ๊ด„์ ์ธ ์ „๋žต์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ง„์ „์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ฑ„๊ตด ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๋„˜์–ด ์ •์ œ ๋ฐ ์ „ํ™˜ ์‚ฌ์—…์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ•ต์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ•ด์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
With the increasing focus on energy and national security, we believe UEC is strategically aligned with where both the market and policymakers are heading. In summary, the quarter reinforced three themes that continue to define UEC: Scale, financial strength, and strategic positioning within the U.S. nuclear fuel supply chain. With that overview, let's turn to operational highlights. In the second quarter, our focus was on delivering significant construction milestones in Wyoming and Texas. We are thrilled with the completion of construction at Burke Hollow, which is now the newest ISR uranium mine in the United States.์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ๋ฐ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ๋ณด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ์ฆ๋Œ€๋จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ, UEC๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ๊ณผ ์ •์ฑ… ์ž…์•ˆ์ž ์–‘์ธก์ด ์ง€ํ–ฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”์™€ ์ „๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์š”์•ฝํ•˜์ž๋ฉด, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋Š” UEC๋ฅผ ํŠน์ง•์ง“๋Š” ์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ํ…Œ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ํ™•๊ณ ํžˆ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: ๊ทœ๋ชจ, ์žฌ๋ฌด ๊ฑด์ „์„ฑ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ•ต์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ๋‚ด์—์„œ์˜ ์ „๋žต์  ์œ„์ƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐœ์š”๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ, ์ด์ œ ์šด์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์™€์ด์˜ค๋ฐ๊ณผ ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค์—์„œ ์ฃผ์š” ๊ฑด์„ค ์ด์ •ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ฃผ๋ ฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ, ๋ฒ„ํฌ ํ• ๋กœ์šฐ(Burke Hollow) ๊ฑด์„ค์ด ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜์–ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ณณ์€ ์ด์ œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ตœ์‹  ISR ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ๊ด‘์‚ฐ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This project has been more than a decade in development since its discovery in 2012. And I want to recognize the outstanding work of our technical and operations team in bringing it to the stage. With that, expanded production infrastructure required for higher output is now in place across our Burke Hollow and Christensen Ranch ISR projects ready for operations, pending final regulatory approvals. During fiscal Q2, the UEC produced 45,743 pounds of U308 driven by only two active header houses at Christensen Ranch at a total cost per pound of $44.14 and a cash cost per pound of $39.66.์ด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋Š” 2012๋…„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋œ ์ด๋ž˜๋กœ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์— 10๋…„ ์ด์ƒ์ด ์†Œ์š”๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ์–ด ์ €ํฌ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฐ ์šด์˜ํŒ€์˜ ํƒ์›”ํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์— ๊นŠ์€ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ‘œํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜, ๋” ๋†’์€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์— ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ํ™•์žฅ๋œ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ์ธํ”„๋ผ๊ฐ€ ์ €ํฌ Burke Hollow ๋ฐ Christensen Ranch ISR ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ตฌ์ถ•๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ตœ์ข… ๊ทœ์ œ ์Šน์ธ๋งŒ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ๋‘” ์ฑ„ ๊ฐ€๋™ ์ค€๋น„๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ, UEC๋Š” Christensen Ranch์˜ ๋‹จ ๋‘ ๊ฐœ์˜ ํ™œ์„ฑ ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ 45,743ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ์˜ U3O8์„ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋‹น ์ด ๋น„์šฉ์€ 44.14๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ, ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋‹น ํ˜„๊ธˆ ๋น„์šฉ์€ 39.66๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Since the restart of operations at Christensen Ranch, accumulated production has now reached 244,321 pounds at a total cost per pound of $37.28 and a cash cost per count of $30.50 and demonstrating the efficiency of our ISR operating platform. At Christensen Ranch, four new header houses were completed and three additional header houses are currently under construction, expanding wellfield capacity and supporting future ISR production growth once regulatory approvals are received. At the Irigaray central processing plant refurbishment of the Christensen Ranch was completed allowing the sort of 24/7 operations and fully optimizing the facility for increased processing throughput.ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ…์Šจ ๋žœ์น˜(Christensen Ranch)์˜ ๊ฐ€๋™ ์žฌ๊ฐœ ์ดํ›„, ๋ˆ„์  ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์€ ํ˜„์žฌ 244,321ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋‹น ์ด๋น„์šฉ์€ 37.28๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ, ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋‹น ํ˜„๊ธˆ ์›๊ฐ€๋Š” 30.50๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ISR ์šด์˜ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ์ž…์ฆํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ…์Šจ ๋žœ์น˜์—์„œ๋Š” 4๊ฐœ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค(header house)๊ฐ€ ์™„๊ณต๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , 3๊ฐœ์˜ ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ฑด์„ค ์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์œ ์ •(wellfield) ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์„ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทœ์ œ ์Šน์ธ์ด ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜๋ฉด ํ–ฅํ›„ ISR ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€๋ ˆ์ด(Irigaray) ์ค‘์•™ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ๊ณต์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ…์Šจ ๋žœ์น˜ ๊ด€๋ จ ๋ณด์ˆ˜ ์ž‘์—…์ด ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜์–ด, 24์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์—ฐ์ค‘๋ฌดํœด(24/7) ์šด์˜์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์กŒ๊ณ , ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‹œ์„ค์„ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
At Ludeman, delineating continued at the first planned wellfield, while engineering progressed for the satellite ion exchange plant. Taken together, Christensen Ranch, Irigaray and Ludeman represent the next stage of near-term production across our Powder River Basin platform. As the uranium sector accelerates, we are also seeing something that has not occurred in the United States for more than 15 years, a broad restart of domestic uranium development activity that renewed activity is positive for the industry, but it also means regulators are processing significantly higher levels of permitting activity than they have in many years. resulting in some regulatory backlog across the sector.Ludeman์—์„œ๋Š” ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๊ณ„ํš๋œ ์œ ์ • ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„ ์„ค์ • ์ž‘์—…์ด ๊ณ„์† ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋™์‹œ์— ์œ„์„ฑ ์ด์˜จ ๊ตํ™˜ ํ”Œ๋žœํŠธ์˜ ์„ค๊ณ„ ์ž‘์—…๋„ ์ง„์ฒ™์„ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์„ ์ข…ํ•ฉํ•˜๋ฉด, Christensen Ranch, Irigaray, Ludeman์€ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ํŒŒ์šฐ๋” ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ„ ๋ถ„์ง€(Powder River Basin) ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์˜ ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์ด ํ™œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ ๋ฉด์„œ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ 15๋…„ ์ด์ƒ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๋˜ ํ˜„์ƒ, ์ฆ‰ ๊ตญ๋‚ด ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ํ™œ๋™์˜ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ์žฌ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ™œ๋™ ์žฌ๊ฐœ๋Š” ์‚ฐ์—…์— ๊ธ์ •์ ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ๋™์‹œ์— ๊ทœ์ œ ๊ธฐ๊ด€์ด ์ˆ˜๋…„ ๋งŒ์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ทœ์ œ ์—…๋ฌด ์ ์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We are working constructively with regulators and industry peers through a coordinated working group aimed at supporting efficient and responsible approvals. These are normal growing pains when an industry transitions from dormancy back into expansion. And we believe the collaboration underway will help ensure that process continues to move forward effectively. Beyond our current production hubs, we also continued advancing our significant development assets. At Sweetwater, development activities accelerated with the completion of 23 case monitor wells and the coring program for advanced metallurgical testing.์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํšจ์œจ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ์Šน์ธ ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ ๋ฐ ์—…๊ณ„ ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์กฐ์œจ๋œ ์‹ค๋ฌด ๊ทธ๋ฃน์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฑด์„ค์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์‚ฐ์—…์ด ํœด๋ฉด๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ™•์žฅ๊ธฐ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜๋  ๋•Œ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š” ์ •์ƒ์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅํ†ต์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ด ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ณผ์ •์ด ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„์† ์ง„์ „๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ˜„์žฌ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ ์™ธ์—๋„, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์ž์‚ฐ๋“ค์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๋ฐœ์ „์‹œ์ผœ ๋‚˜๊ฐ”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šค์œ„ํŠธ์›Œํ„ฐ์—์„œ๋Š” 23๊ฐœ์˜ ์ผ€์ด์Šค ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง ์‹œ์ถ”๊ณต(monitor wells) ์™„๊ณต๊ณผ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ์•ผ๊ธˆ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ฝ”์–ด๋ง ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ(coring program)์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ํ™œ๋™์ด ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Along with the commencement of the 200 whole delineation drilling program on March 2, 2026. And in Saskatchewan, we continued to achieve notable progress with the Roughrider project, completing more than 30% of the core drilling programs supporting the upcoming prefeasibility study. In parallel, our Canadian team is also working with SaskPower toward a definition phase agreement for a high-voltage power connection to the project. Turning to the financial results. We finished the quarter with $818 million in liquid assets, including $486 million in cash, along with accounts receivable, Uranium inventory and marketable equities and importantly, no debt.2026๋…„ 3์›” 2์ผ 200๊ฐœ ์‹œ์ถ”๊ณต ํƒ์‚ฌ ์‹œ์ถ” ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋จ๊ณผ ๋™์‹œ์—, ์‚ฌ์Šค์บ์ฒ˜์›์—์„œ๋Š” Roughrider ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์—์„œ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์ง„์ „์„ ๊ณ„์† ์ด๋ฃจ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” ์˜ˆ๋น„ ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์ฝ”์–ด ์‹œ์ถ” ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์˜ 30% ์ด์ƒ์„ ์™„๋ฃŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์™€ ๋ณ‘ํ–‰ํ•˜์—ฌ, ์บ๋‚˜๋‹ค ํŒ€์€ SaskPower์™€ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜์—ฌ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์— ๊ณ ์ „์•• ์ „๋ ฅ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ '์ •์˜ ๋‹จ๊ณ„' ํ•ฉ์˜๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์žฌ๋ฌด ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€, ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” 8์–ต 1,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์œ ๋™ ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์—๋Š” ํ˜„๊ธˆ 4์–ต 8,600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋น„๋กฏํ•˜์—ฌ ๋งค์ถœ์ฑ„๊ถŒ, ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ์žฌ๊ณ , ์‹œ์žฅ์„ฑ ์œ ๊ฐ€์ฆ๊ถŒ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ๋ถ€์ฑ„๊ฐ€ ์ „ํ˜€ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This financial strength provides the flexibility to advance production growth while maintaining a disciplined and opportunistic approach to uranium marketing. As mentioned earlier, during the quarter, we sold 200,000 pounds of U308 and $101 per pound, well above the average quarterly uranium price of approximately $80. These sales generated over $20 million in revenue and $10 million in gross profit. As of January 31, 2026, the company held $1,456,000 U308 valued at approximately $144 million of market prices. Excluding an additional 244,321 pounds of precipitated uranium and dried and drone U308 at the Irigaray gare processing plant.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด ๊ฑด์ „์„ฑ์€ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทœ์œจ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๊ธฐํšŒ์ฃผ์˜์ ์ธ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๋“ฏ์ด, ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋‹น 101๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— 20๋งŒ ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ์˜ U3O8์„ ํŒ๋งคํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์•ฝ 80๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์ธ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํ‰๊ท  ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด 2์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋งค์ถœ๊ณผ 1์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„ 1์›” 31์ผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ, ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” 1,456,000 ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ์˜ U3O8์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์•ฝ 1์–ต 4,400๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ˆ˜์น˜์—๋Š” Irigaray ๊ฐ€๊ณต ๊ณต์žฅ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์ถ”๊ฐ€ 244,321 ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ์˜ ์นจ์ „ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ๋ฐ ๊ฑด์กฐ๋œ U3O8์€ ์ œ์™ธ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Maintaining strong liquidity, including physical uranium inventory remains an integral part of our strategy as we position the company ahead of evolving policy developments and tightening uranium supply fundamentals. A key component of our long-term strategy is United States uranium Refining & Conversion Corp., or URNC. Uranium conversion remains an acute bottleneck in the Western nuclear fuel cycle with insufficient commercial UF6 capacity outside Russia and China. At the same time, a critical gap in the U.S. nuclear fuel cycle is the lack of an integrated domestic supplier, spanning mining, processing, refining and conversion.๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ์žฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์œ ๋™์„ฑ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€, ์ง„ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์ •์ฑ… ๋ณ€ํ™”์™€ ๊ธด์ถ•๋˜๋Š” ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ํŽ€๋”๋ฉ˜ํ„ธ์— ๋Œ€๋น„ํ•˜์—ฌ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ „๋žต์˜ ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์ „๋žต์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ์š”์†Œ๋Š” United States Uranium Refining & Conversion Corp. (URNC)์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ์ „ํ™˜์€ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์™€ ์ค‘๊ตญ์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ์ƒ์—…์šฉ UF6 ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ๋ถˆ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•˜์—ฌ ์„œ๋ฐฉ ํ•ต์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ์—์„œ ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ๋ณ‘๋ชฉ ํ˜„์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์—, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ•ต์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ์—์„œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋Š” ์ฑ„๊ตด, ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ, ์ •์ œ ๋ฐ ์ „ํ™˜์„ ์•„์šฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ํ†ตํ•ฉ๋œ ๊ตญ๋‚ด ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์˜ ๋ถ€์žฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
That gap underscores the importance of UEC's initiative with URNC. During the quarter, URC continued high-level engagement with government officials and further advance the feasibility spend at the floor while also expanding both the technical and licensing team supporting the project. We also initiated a detailed siting study, evaluating potential locations across the United States based on permitting considerations, infrastructure, logistics and workforce availability. The objective is straightforward build America's first and only company capable of anchoring the nuclear fuel supply chain required to support enrichment and the expansion of the U.S.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋Š” UEC๊ฐ€ URNC์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ์ž˜ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ URC๋Š” ์ •๋ถ€ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ณ ์œ„๊ธ‰ ํ˜‘์˜๋ฅผ ์ง€์†ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„์žฅ ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•œ์ธต ๋” ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์—, ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฐ ์ธํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ํŒ€์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ํ™•์ถฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ธํ—ˆ๊ฐ€, ์ธํ”„๋ผ, ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜, ์ธ๋ ฅ ๊ฐ€์šฉ์„ฑ ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ „์—ญ์˜ ์ž ์žฌ์  ๋ถ€์ง€๋ฅผ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒ์„ธํ•œ ๋ถ€์ง€ ์„ ์ • ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ์ฐฉ์ˆ˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋†์ถ• ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ์›์ž๋ ฅ ์‚ฐ์—… ํ™•์žฅ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ํ•ต์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ถ•์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ตœ์ดˆ์ด์ž ์œ ์ผํ•œ ๊ธฐ์—…์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
nuclear industrial base aligned with current U.S. policy initiatives to grow nuclear power. Our operational platform is built around scalable hub-and-spoke ISR operations in Wyoming and South Texas. Supporting by longer-term development projects at Sweetwater and Roughrider. Starting in Wyoming, Christensen Ranch continues to operate as the first spoke to the Irigaray central processing plant, and we increased our work progress at the Ludeman project that will serve as the second spoke. During the quarter, we continued advancing new production areas at Christensen Ranch and Ludeman through delineation drilling header houses and additional wellfield development.์›์ž๋ ฅ ๋ฐœ์ „์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ •์ฑ… ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์— ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•˜๋Š” ํ•ต ์‚ฐ์—… ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์šด์˜ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์€ ์™€์ด์˜ค๋ฐ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ์šฐ์Šค ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ํ™•์žฅ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ ์•ค ์Šคํฌํฌ(hub-and-spoke) ISR ์šด์˜์„ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์ถ•๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์Šค์œ„ํŠธ์›Œํ„ฐ(Sweetwater)์™€ ๋Ÿฌํ”„๋ผ์ด๋”(Roughrider)์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์™€์ด์˜ค๋ฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ…์Šจ ๋žœ์น˜(Christensen Ranch)๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€๋ ˆ์ด(Irigaray) ์ค‘์•™ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ๊ณต์žฅ์˜ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์Šคํฌํฌ(spoke)๋กœ์„œ ๊ณ„์† ์šด์˜๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์Šคํฌํฌ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•  ๋ฃจ๋“œ๋จผ(Ludeman) ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์˜ ์ž‘์—… ์ง„ํ–‰๋ฅ ์„ ๋†’์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ…์Šจ ๋žœ์น˜์™€ ๋ฃจ๋“œ๋จผ์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„ ์‹œ์ถ”(delineation drilling), ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค(header houses) ์„ค์น˜ ๋ฐ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์œ ์ • ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ(wellfield development)์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ƒ์‚ฐ ์ง€์—ญ์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ง„์ฒ™์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Turning to South Texas and a major accomplishment, we have completed the construction of our Burke Hollow mine. The operations team is currently preparing for start-up while awaiting the state regulator's final approval of the drilling and completion report for the waste disposal one, which is a standard protocol before commencing ISR operations. The first production area at Burke Hollow includes 129 injection and recovery wells, all of which have been tested for mechanical integrity and should provide feed to the IX plant once operations begin.๋‚จ๋ถ€ ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค ์ง€์—ญ์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€์„œ, ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ ๋ฒ„ํฌ ํ• ๋กœ์šฐ(Burke Hollow) ๊ด‘์‚ฐ ๊ฑด์„ค์ด ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šด์˜ํŒ€์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ฐ€๋™ ์ค€๋น„์— ๋ฐ•์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ๊ธฐ๋ฌผ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ์ •(waste disposal one)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹œ์ถ” ๋ฐ ์™„๊ฒฐ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ฃผ ๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์˜ ์ตœ์ข… ์Šน์ธ์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ISR(ํ˜„์žฅ ํšŒ์ˆ˜) ์šด์˜ ๊ฐœ์‹œ ์ „์˜ ํ‘œ์ค€ ์ ˆ์ฐจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ„ํฌ ํ• ๋กœ์šฐ์˜ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๊ตฌ์—ญ์—๋Š” 129๊ฐœ์˜ ์ฃผ์ž…์ • ๋ฐ ํšŒ์ˆ˜์ •์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์ •๋“ค์€ ๊ธฐ๊ณ„์  ๊ฑด์ „์„ฑ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์™„๋ฃŒํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์šด์˜์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๋ฉด IX ํ”Œ๋žœํŠธ์— ๊ณต๊ธ‰์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Looking further ahead, Sweetwater is earmarked to be a major future production center, and we're working expeditiously towards this operation as both the conventional mill and a CPP for processing ISR production. During the quarter, the Sweetwater plan of operations progressed through the Bureau of Land Management review process, positioning the project for the next phase of federal permitting. Finally, in Saskatchewan, we continued advancing the Roughrider project, one of the highest grade undeveloped uranium projects in the world. More than 30% of the planned 4,000-meter drilling program has now been completed in support of the upcoming prefeasibility study.ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ „๋ง์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์Šค์œ„ํŠธ์›Œํ„ฐ(Sweetwater)๋Š” ์ฃผ์š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๊ฑฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง€์ •๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์กด ์ œ๋ จ์†Œ ๋ฐ ISR(In-Situ Recovery) ์ƒ์‚ฐ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ์šฉ CPP(Central Processing Plant)๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์šด์˜์„ ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ, ์Šค์œ„ํŠธ์›Œํ„ฐ ์šด์˜ ๊ณ„ํš์€ ํ† ์ง€๊ด€๋ฆฌ๊ตญ(Bureau of Land Management)์˜ ๊ฒ€ํ†  ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ†ต๊ณผํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ง„์ „์„ ๋ณด์˜€๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์˜ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋ฐŸ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ๋งˆ๋ จํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ์„œ์Šค์บ์ฒ˜์›(Saskatchewan)์—์„œ๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๊ณ  ๋“ฑ๊ธ‰์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ธ ๋Ÿฌํ”„๋ผ์ด๋”(Roughrider) ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ถ”์ง„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” ์˜ˆ๋น„ ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ณ„ํš๋œ 4,000๋ฏธํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ถ” ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์˜ 30% ์ด์ƒ์ด ํ˜„์žฌ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The broader policy backdrop remains robust. In January 2026, a President Trump issued a Presidential Proclamation directing negotiations under Section 232 related to national security risks associated with imports of process critical minerals, including Uranium. Uranium was formally added to the U.S. Geological Survey Critical Minerals list in November 2025 and is now explicitly covered by this investigation. The proclamation highlighted the United States reliance on foreign uranium processing capacity and emphasize the need to rebuild a secure domestic uranium fuel supply chain.์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์ •์ฑ…์  ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„ 1์›”, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ณต ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ด‘๋ฌผ ์ˆ˜์ž…๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ๋ณด ์œ„ํ—˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด 232์กฐ์— ์˜๊ฑฐํ•œ ํ˜‘์ƒ์„ ์ง€์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น ํฌ๊ณ ๋ น์„ ๋ฐœ๋ นํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„์€ 2025๋…„ 11์›” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ง€์งˆ์กฐ์‚ฌ๊ตญ(USGS)์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ด‘๋ฌผ ๋ชฉ๋ก์— ๊ณต์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์ œ ์ด ์กฐ์‚ฌ์— ๋ช…์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํฌํ•จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํฌ๊ณ ๋ น์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด ํ•ด์™ธ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ๊ฐ€๊ณต ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์— ์˜์กดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ๊ตญ๋‚ด ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง์„ ์žฌ๊ฑดํ•  ํ•„์š”์„ฑ์„ ์—ญ์„คํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Negotiators are expected to provide a status report by July 13, 2026, after which additional measures for specific remedies may be considered. Against that backdrop, let me briefly summarize the progress we made during the quarter. First, we demonstrated the strength of our unhedged strategy, capturing a strong pricing opportunity. Second, we continued advancing staged production growth, including the completion of the Burke Hollow ISR mine and expansion of our Wyoming ISR production platform. And third, we progressed URC in the next stage of our fuel cycle strategy aimed at strengthening the U.S. nuclear fuel supply chain.ํ˜‘์ƒ๋‹จ์€ 2026๋…„ 7์›” 13์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ œ์ถœํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ์ดํ›„์—๋Š” ํŠน์ • ๊ตฌ์ œ์ฑ…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์กฐ์น˜๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๋ ค๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์—์„œ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฃฌ ์ง„์ „์„ ๊ฐ„๋žตํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์š”์•ฝํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฒซ์งธ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ฌดํ—ค์ง€ ์ „๋žต(unhedged strategy)์˜ ๊ฐ•์ ์„ ์ž…์ฆํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ํฌ์ฐฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘˜์งธ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ฒ„ํฌ ํ• ๋กœ์šฐ ISR ๊ด‘์‚ฐ(Burke Hollow ISR mine)์˜ ์™„๊ณต๊ณผ ์™€์ด์˜ค๋ฐ ISR ์ƒ์‚ฐ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์˜ ํ™•์žฅ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ณ„ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ง„์ „์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์…‹์งธ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ•ต์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ•ต์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์ „๋žต(fuel cycle strategy)์˜ ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์—์„œ URC๋ฅผ ์ง„์ „์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
All of this was accomplished while maintaining one of the strongest balance sheets in the sector with significant liquidity and no debt. With the largest uranium resource space in the United States, growing production infrastructure and a clear pathway towards expanding our role across the nuclear fuel cycle we believe UEC is well positioned for the next phase of growth in the Uranium market. Before we open the line for questions, I'd like to note that I'm joined today by Josephine Man, our Chief Financial Officer; Scott Melbye, our Executive Vice President; and Brent Berg, our Senior Vice President of U.S. Operations.์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์œ ๋™์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ฌด๋ถ€์ฑ„ ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์—…๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ƒํƒœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ตœ๋Œ€ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ์ž์› ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜, ํ™•๋Œ€๋˜๋Š” ์ƒ์‚ฐ ์ธํ”„๋ผ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•ต์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•  ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ๋กœ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” UEC๋Š” ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๋‹ค์Œ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ตญ๋ฉด์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ–๊ธฐ ์ „์—, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ €์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜์‹  ๋ถ„๋“ค์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž(CFO) ์กฐ์„ธํ•€ ๋งจ, ์Šค์ฝง ๋ฉœ๋ฐ”์ด ์ „๋ฌด์ด์‚ฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€ ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ ๋ธŒ๋ ŒํŠธ ๋ฒ„๊ทธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Together, our leadership team is supported by UEC workforce representing more than 900 years of combined uranium industry experience, which continues to drive our operational execution and strategic development. With that, operator, please open the line for questions.์ €ํฌ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ํŒ€์€ ์ด 900๋…„ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ์‚ฐ์—… ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์„ ํ•ฉ์‚ฐํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ UEC ์ธ๋ ฅ์˜ ์ง€์›์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์šด์˜ ์‹คํ–‰๊ณผ ์ „๋žต ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๋Š” ์›๋™๋ ฅ์ด ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด์ƒ์œผ๋กœ, ๊ตํ™˜์›๋‹˜, ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํšŒ์„ ์„ ์—ด์–ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

Uranium Energy Corp. (UEC) 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ์š”์•ฝ:

* UEC๋Š” 8์–ต 1,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์œ ๋™์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ฌด๋ถ€์ฑ„๋กœ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํ‰๊ท  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ($80/lb)์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” $101/lb์— 20๋งŒ ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ์˜ U3O8์„ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฌดํ—ค์ง€ ์ „๋žต์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ์ž…์ฆํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
* ์‹ ๊ทœ Burke Hollow ISR ๊ด‘์‚ฐ ๊ฑด์„ค์„ ์™„๋ฃŒํ•˜๊ณ  ์™€์ด์˜ค๋ฐ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜์—ฌ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ค€๋น„๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์ณค์œผ๋‚˜, ์‹ ๊ทœ ์šด์˜ ๊ฐœ์‹œ๋Š” ์ตœ์ข… ๊ทœ์ œ ์Šน์ธ์„ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ ์ค‘์ด๋ฉฐ ์—…๊ณ„ ์ „๋ฐ˜์˜ ์ธํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์—ฐ์„ '์„ฑ์žฅํ†ต'์œผ๋กœ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
* ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ˆ˜์ง ํ†ตํ•ฉํ˜• ํ•ต์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ๊ตฌ์ถ•์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ์ •์ œ ๋ฐ ์ „ํ™˜(URNC) ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ทน ์ถ”์ง„ ์ค‘์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์•ˆ๋ณด ์ •์ฑ… ๋ฐ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ๋ถ€์กฑ์— ์ „๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


??Q&A

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Operator: [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from Brian Lee with Goldman Sachs.**Operator:** ์ด์ œ ์งˆ์˜ ์‘๋‹ต์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ณจ๋“œ๋งŒ์‚ญ์Šค(Goldman Sachs)์˜ ๋ธŒ๋ผ์ด์–ธ ๋ฆฌ(Brian Lee)๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Brian Lee: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division I guess, first, to start off on the uranium marketing. I'd be curious, Amir, if you can comment on whether there's been any subsequent sales of uranium the quarter outside of the $101 per pound price you realized there were periods of pricing well in the 90s for a period of time as well. So I'm just curious if you continue to sell down some inventory? And then just maybe bigger picture. I know historically, you've talked about $80, $85 a pound sort of being the sweet spot, if you will, to start thinking about monetizing some of the on your balance sheet. We spent most of this year at or above that level. I'm curious if your thoughts around the pricing environment and what in the sense you to sell has changed at?**Brian Lee:** ๋จผ์ €, ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…(uranium marketing)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์•„๋ฏธ๋ฅด๋‹˜๊ป˜ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•œ ์ ์€, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋‹น 101๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ(USD) ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์™ธ์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ํŒ๋งค(subsequent sales)๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์—ฌ๋ถ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋™์•ˆ 90๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋Œ€ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋Œ€๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์žฌ๊ณ (inventory)๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์†Œ์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ข€ ๋” ํฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ(bigger picture)์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์—๋Š” ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋‹น 80~85๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ(USD) ์ •๋„๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€์ฐจ๋Œ€์กฐํ‘œ(balance sheet)์ƒ์˜ ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ์ˆ˜์ตํ™”(monetizing)ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์ ์ • ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋Œ€(sweet spot)๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ด ์ˆ˜์ค€ ์ด์ƒ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ํ˜•์„ฑ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ(pricing environment)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ท€์‚ฌ์˜ ์ƒ๊ฐ๊ณผ ํŒ๋งค ๊ฒฐ์ • ์š”์ธ(selling triggers)์— ์–ด๋–ค ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Amir Adnani: President, CEO & Director All right, Brian, thank you for that question. And just starting out to answer your question, as the schools in the quarter that we just filed, there are no subsequent event notes with respect to additional sales pursuant to the sales that were made during the quarter and reported, which was at the $101 per pound level. With respect to the strategy, again, I think it's very important to drive on the points that we made already. We've always felt and we've always positioned the company with this unique 100% unhedged strategy. This quarter, in particular, demonstrates the true strength of an unhedged strategy in a market that is in a structural deficit based on global supply-demand fundamentals not to mention in the U.S. where we are as a company and where we have U.S. inventory, U.S. produced pounds, the U.S. has even a more acute supply-demand profile. The U.S. is effectively importing over 95% of its uranium requirements. Just to even share some color, we've seen a situation in the market when prices are really not being tested by normal run rate utility demand. And so we think as things normalize, we expect to see a strong price. So, it's important for us to demonstrate the power of our unhedged strategy from time to time, which is what we did during this quarter. But we also finished the quarter with $1.46 million of inventory on hand and an additional 244,000 pounds of precipitated uranium and dried and drum at Irigaray with production expected to obviously ramp up. So ultimately, the last point I'll make to all of that, Brian, is UEC's capital intensity being on the lower end for mine development when it comes to institute recovery. institute recovery projects do have the benefit of lower capital intensity. And as a result, you see UEC's balance sheet with no debt at $818 million of liquid assets, arguably one of the strongest balance sheets in the entire sector. So we'll remain opportunistic, Brian. We'll remain aligned with the fact that the company's capital needs total capital requirements are more than adequately covered with liquidity on hand. The inventory position that we have is very strategic and valuable. And look, we expect, again, so much more to still happen this year on the policy front with the U.S. government with the presidential proformations that I spoke about earlier and we discussed in the press release. And so we're wanting to see how things develop also with the national security concerns that the U.S. government has right now, with respect to too much uranium imports coming into the country, particularly from sources like Russia and China. Hope that answers your question, Brian.**Amir Adnani:** ๋„ค, ๋ธŒ๋ผ์ด์–ธ, ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์šฐ์„  ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ์ œ์ถœํ•œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ(quarterly report)์—๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋ณด๊ณ ๋œ ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋‹น 101๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ํŒ๋งค ์™ธ์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ํŒ๋งค์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•œ ํ›„์† ์‚ฌ๊ฑด ์ฃผ์„(subsequent event notes)์€ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ „๋žต๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š”, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๋˜ ์š”์ ๋“ค์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ด ๋…ํŠนํ•œ 100% ๋ฌดํ—ค์ง€ ์ „๋žต(unhedged strategy)์œผ๋กœ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์ˆ˜๊ธ‰ ํŽ€๋”๋ฉ˜ํ„ธ(global supply-demand fundamentals)์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ์ ์ž(structural deficit) ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ์€ ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด๊ณ , ๋ฌดํ—ค์ง€ ์ „๋žต์˜ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ๊ฐ•์ ์„ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์œ„์น˜์™€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์žฌ๊ณ (U.S. inventory), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ฐ์•ˆํ•  ๋•Œ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์ˆ˜๊ธ‰(supply-demand) ์ƒํ™ฉ์€ ๋”์šฑ ๊ทน์‹ฌํ•œ ๋ถˆ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ํ•„์š”๋Ÿ‰์˜ 95% ์ด์ƒ์„ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ์ˆ˜์ž…์— ์˜์กดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ •์ƒ์ ์ธ ๋ฐœ์ „์‚ฌ(utility)์˜ ๊ฐ€๋™๋ฅ (run rate) ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ์ •์ƒํ™”๋˜๋ฉด ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ƒ์Šน์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๋น„ํ—ท์ง€ ์ „๋žต(unhedged strategy)์˜ ๊ฐ•์ ์„ ๋•Œ๋•Œ๋กœ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ 146๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ(million) ์ƒ๋‹น์˜ ์žฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ ์ฑ„ ๋งˆ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์™€ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด ์ด๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ๋ ˆ์ด(Irigaray)์—์„œ๋Š” 244,000 ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ(pounds)์˜ ์นจ์ „ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„(precipitated uranium)์ด ๊ฑด์กฐ๋˜์–ด ๋“œ๋Ÿผ์— ๋‹ด๊ฒจ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ํ™•๋ณด๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์€ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ, ๋ธŒ๋ผ์ด์–ธ, ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ๋“œ๋ฆด ๋ง์”€์€ UEC์˜ ํ˜„์žฅ ํšŒ์ˆ˜(in-situ recovery, ISR) ๋ฐฉ์‹ ๊ด‘์‚ฐ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์— ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์ž๋ณธ ์ง‘์•ฝ๋„(capital intensity)๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฎ์€ ํŽธ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฅ ํšŒ์ˆ˜ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋Š” ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ž๋ณธ ์ง‘์•ฝ๋„๋ผ๋Š” ์ด์ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, UEC์˜ ๋Œ€์ฐจ๋Œ€์กฐํ‘œ(balance sheet)๋Š” ๋ฌด๋ถ€์ฑ„ ์ƒํƒœ์ด๋ฉฐ 8์–ต 1,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์œ ๋™ ์ž์‚ฐ(liquid assets)์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์—…๊ณ„ ์ „์ฒด์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋Œ€์ฐจ๋Œ€์กฐํ‘œ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ํฌ์ฐฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋ธŒ๋ผ์ด์–ธ. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ด ์ž๋ณธ ํ•„์š”์•ก(total capital requirements)์ด ๋ณด์œ  ์œ ๋™์„ฑ(liquidity)์œผ๋กœ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ํ™•๋ณด๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ์œ ์—ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์žฌ๊ณ  ํ˜„ํ™ฉ(inventory position)์€ ๋งค์šฐ ์ „๋žต์ ์ด๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ •์ฑ… ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ผ์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๊ณ  ๋ณด๋„์ž๋ฃŒ์—์„œ๋„ ๋‹ค๋ค˜๋˜ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ๋‚ด์šฉ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ „๊ฐœ๋ ์ง€ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ํ˜„์žฌ ์šฐ๋ คํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ๋ณด ๋ฌธ์ œ, ์ฆ‰ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์™€ ์ค‘๊ตญ ๊ฐ™์€ ํŠน์ • ๊ณต๊ธ‰์›์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ๊ณผ๋„ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ์ˆ˜์ž…์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์ƒํ™ฉ ์ „๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์‹œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ธŒ๋ผ์ด์–ธ ์”จ, ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์ด ๋˜์…จ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Brian Lee: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Absolutely. Maybe my follow-up question 2-parter on the Solstice recently expanded capacity, you made an announcement, I think, on the last earnings call, I would be curious what, if any implication of that add for your strategy going forward? And then, secondly, it sounds like you've accelerated a bit on that front. Could you talk a little bit maybe in more precise terms around timing of milestones and then you've been able to accelerate what you expect the timing for siting, maybe breaking ground and the feasibility study and any other milestones you might point to you actually have a bit more graph on timing?**Brian Lee:** ์ง€๋‚œ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ(earnings call)์—์„œ ์†”์Šคํ‹ฐ์Šค(Solstice) ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ์ฆ์„ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•˜์…จ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฆ์„ค์ด ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ €ํฌ ์ „๋žต์— ์–ด๋–ค ์˜๋ฏธ๋‚˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์†๋„๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋นจ๋ผ์ง„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ผ์Šคํ†ค(milestone)๋ณ„ ์‹œ์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ํŠนํžˆ ๋ถ€์ง€ ์„ ์ •(siting), ์ฐฉ๊ณต(breaking ground), ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ ์กฐ์‚ฌ(feasibility study) ๋“ฑ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ์‹œ์ ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ, ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ข€ ๋” ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋งˆ์ผ์Šคํ†ค์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Amir Adnani: President, CEO & Director Yes, for sure, Brian. The conversion market remains one of the tightest segments of the nuclear fuel cycle anywhere in the world. There's a real bottleneck, and there's a lot of concern about simple lack of capacity that's available globally. The same goes in the U.S. and the U.S., which is the world's largest market for nuclear fuel demand, there's only one conversion facility that was built in the 50s. By comparison, there's now a foot race to stand up at least five or six new enrichment facilities. And obviously, there are several mines operating in the country. So when you look at the fuel cycle, conversion is the real bottleneck, again, both in the U.S. and globally. There's only five conversion facilities in the world, and China and Russia really control that market globally. And so when you think about the same playbook that we've seen in the rare earth markets where there's too much control in the hands of the adversaries. The U.S. needs more capacity and can't have a single point of failure with just one facility, and there needs to be more capacity to meet demand currently and even with any expansion plans, Brian, at the existing facility. U.S. will only meet half of its demand and that demand is, of course, expected to increase significantly, judging by the presidential executive orders, the demand coming from growth in SMRs and advanced reactors and the needs of the U.S. government, including nuclear propulsion, Department of War and of course, with the U.S. strategic uranium reserve. And so all of that will look at Uranium. We'll look at the need for more conversion. Our plans are, as we've mentioned in the quarter, accelerating and intensifying. We will have a lot more to report over the course of this calendar year. The feasibility study is advancing with floor permitting work, team building and our engagement with the government.**Amir Adnani:** ๋„ค, ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋ธŒ๋ผ์ด์–ธ. ์ „ํ™˜ ์‹œ์žฅ(conversion market)์€ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ํ•ต์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ(nuclear fuel cycle)์—์„œ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์ด ๋น ๋“ฏํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ๋ณ‘๋ชฉ ํ˜„์ƒ(bottleneck)์ด ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์šฉ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ(capacity)์ด ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ต์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ์ˆ˜์š”์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ์‹œ์žฅ์ธ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—๋Š” 1950๋…„๋Œ€์— ๊ฑด์„ค๋œ ์ „ํ™˜ ์‹œ์„ค(conversion facility)์ด ๋‹จ ํ•œ ๊ณณ๋ฟ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ๋น„ํ•ด, ํ˜„์žฌ ์ตœ์†Œ 5~6๊ฐœ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋†์ถ• ์‹œ์„ค(enrichment facility)์„ ๊ฑด์„คํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ด ์น˜์—ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฌผ๋ก , ๊ตญ๋‚ด์—๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ด‘์‚ฐ์ด ์šด์˜๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ(fuel cycle)๋ฅผ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ „ํ™˜(conversion)์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ๋ณ‘๋ชฉ ํ˜„์ƒ์ž„์„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ ์‹œ์„ค(conversion facilities)์€ ๋‹จ 5๊ฐœ๋ฟ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ค‘๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„๊ฐ€ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์žฅ์•…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํฌํ† ๋ฅ˜ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์ ๋Œ€๊ตญ๋“ค์˜ ์†์— ํ†ต์ œ๊ถŒ์ด ๊ณผ๋„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง‘์ค‘๋˜์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ „๋ก€(playbook)๋ฅผ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ(capacity)์„ ํ•„์š”๋กœ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹จ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์‹œ์„ค๋กœ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ผ ์‹คํŒจ ์ง€์ (single point of failure)์„ ๊ฐ€์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์กฑ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ๊ธฐ์กด ์‹œ์„ค์˜ ์–ด๋–ค ํ™•์žฅ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ์ˆ˜์š”์˜ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜๋งŒ์„ ์ถฉ์กฑ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ์ˆ˜์š”๋Š” ๋ฌผ๋ก  ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น ํ–‰์ • ๋ช…๋ น(presidential executive orders)๊ณผ ์†Œํ˜• ๋ชจ๋“ˆํ˜• ์›์ž๋กœ(SMRs) ๋ฐ ์ฐจ์„ธ๋Œ€ ์›์ž๋กœ(advanced reactors)์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ํ•„์š”์„ฑ์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์•ˆํ•  ๋•Œ ๋”์šฑ ๊ทธ๋ ‡์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ต ์ถ”์ง„(nuclear propulsion)์„ ๋น„๋กฏํ•œ ๊ตญ๋ฐฉ ๋ถ„์•ผ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ „๋žต ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ๋น„์ถ•๋Ÿ‰(U.S. strategic uranium reserve)๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ์ •๋ถ€์˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ๋†’์•„์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ „ํ™˜(conversion)์˜ ํ•„์š”์„ฑ ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ์˜ ๊ณ„ํš์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ(quarter)์— ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๋“ฏ์ด ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธˆ๋…„(calendar year) ๋™์•ˆ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋“œ๋ฆด ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋งŽ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ํƒ€๋‹น์„ฑ ์กฐ์‚ฌ(feasibility study)๋Š” ์‹œ์„ค ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ์ž‘์—…(facility permitting work), ํŒ€ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ •๋ถ€์™€์˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ(engagement)์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Brian Lee: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division I look forward to those updates. Thanks, guys. I will pass it on.**Brian Lee:** ํ–ฅํ›„ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Amir Adnani: President, CEO & Director Yes. Thanks, Brian. And just the last point on that before we go to the next question. And we've said this during the call already, but just to repeat it, what again differentiates UEC's effort to enter conversion is to truly build an American supply chain from mining, refining to conversion. That's never been done before in the U.S. under one roof. That's what really also differentiates the supply chain solution from anything else that currently exists that doesn't have the same control that we expect to have and want to build on the front end of the fuel cycle from mine to conversion.**Amir Adnani:** ๋„ค, ๋ธŒ๋ผ์ด์–ธ๋‹˜, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์ „์—, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋” ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜์ž๋ฉด, UEC๊ฐ€ ์ „ํ™˜(conversion) ์‚ฌ์—…์— ์ง„์ถœํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋˜๋Š” ์ง€์ ์€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ฑ„๊ตด(mining)๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ •๋ จ(refining), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ „ํ™˜์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง(supply chain)์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋‹จ์ผ ๊ธฐ์—…์ด 'ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ง€๋ถ• ์•„๋ž˜(under one roof)'์—์„œ ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ•ด๋‚ธ ์ „๋ก€๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” ์ผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ด ์ ์ด ํ˜„์žฌ ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜(supply chain solution)๊ณผ๋„ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ(fuel cycle)์˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„, ์ฆ‰ ์ฑ„๊ตด๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ „ํ™˜์— ์ด๋ฅด๋Š” ์ „ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ํ†ต์ œ๋ ฅ(control)์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๊ณณ์€ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And the next question comes from Alexander Pearce with BMO Capital.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ BMO ์บํ”ผํƒˆ์˜ ์•Œ๋ ‰์‚ฐ๋” ํ”ผ์–ด์Šค๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Alexander Pearce: BMO Capital Markets Equity Research So production was down a little bit quarter-on-quarter. Maybe you could just provide a little bit more color on what drove that. Was it related to sort of the California refigure upgrades that you were making in the previous quarter? And then maybe you can just talk about what the ramp-up could look like over the next quarter.**Alexander Pearce:** ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ, ์ „๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์ด ์†Œํญ ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๊ทธ ์›์ธ์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€ ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”? ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜์…จ๋˜ ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„ ์žฌ๊ตฌ์„ฑ(refigure) ์—…๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‹ค์Œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๋Œ€(ramp-up)๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Amir Adnani: President, CEO & Director Alex, thank you for that. And it was good to see you recently at your BMO conference. We were extremely busy over those few days. Let's be clear. The last quarter, we reported several fronts where we had production infrastructure under construction. This quarter, we've delivered very much on completed construction activities across those key projects at Christensen Ranch with new header houses and their construction of Burke Hollow being completed, which is the newest uranium mine in the United States, Alex, as you know. So now we are awaiting the regulatory approval. The bulk of the production, Alex, in the last few quarters had been carried. Again, majority of the production has been carried by only header houses at Christensen Ranch, only two. And so any production step change here and growth will come from the additional header houses that have now been constructed. And the Burke Hollow satellite project that has been completed and expected to come on. You heard us talk about pending regulatory approval. Let me emphasize that both Christensen Ranch and Burke Hollow are fully permitted projects. This is a significant advantage for both projects and for use. The reviews that are currently underway in Wyoming really relate to wellfield data packages that have been submitted, and the regulators classify these as nonsignificant revisions. Ordinary course these take significantly less time but with the resurgence which is a positive we're seeing for the industry. This means regulators are also processing higher volumes of permitting activity more than they've seen in recent years. So essentially, these are somewhat growing pains in the industry that's moving from dormancy back into expansion, but these approvals will come in. And as they do Alex, we'll have a better handle very soon on how the sequencing and the ramp will look like. And I'm going to also let Brent Berg chime in on that as well, with regards to the work that we've done. Go ahead, Brent.**Amir Adnani:** ์•Œ๋ ‰์Šค ์‚ฌ์žฅ๋‹˜, ๋ง์”€ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ BMO ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์—์„œ ๋ต™๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ์ข‹์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๋ฉฐ์น  ๋™์•ˆ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ๋ฐ”๋นด์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ(last quarter)์—๋Š” ์ƒ์‚ฐ ์ธํ”„๋ผ(production infrastructure)๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๊ฑด์„ค ์ค‘์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ ๋“œ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ(this quarter)์—๋Š” ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ…์Šจ ๋žœ์น˜(Christensen Ranch)์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค(header house)์™€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ตœ์‹  ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ๊ด‘์‚ฐ์ธ ๋ฒ„ํฌ ํ• ๋กœ์šฐ(Burke Hollow) ๊ฑด์„ค ์™„๋ฃŒ ๋“ฑ ์ฃผ์š” ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๊ฑด์„ค ํ™œ๋™์„ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์™„๋ฃŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•Œ๋ ‰์Šค ์‚ฌ์žฅ๋‹˜๋„ ์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ ๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š” ๊ทœ์ œ ์Šน์ธ(regulatory approval)์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•Œ๋ ‰์Šค ์‚ฌ์žฅ๋‹˜, ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ…์Šจ ๋žœ์น˜(Christensen Ranch)์˜ ๋‹จ ๋‘ ๊ฐœ์˜ ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค(header house)๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์ด ๋‘ ๊ฐœ์˜ ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค์—์„œ ๋‚˜์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๋Œ€์™€ ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ฑด์„ค์ด ์™„๋ฃŒ๋œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค(header house)์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜์–ด ๊ฐ€๋™์„ ์•ž๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฒ„ํฌ ํ• ๋กœ์šฐ ์œ„์„ฑ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ(satellite project)๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ทœ์ œ ์Šน์ธ(regulatory approval) ๋Œ€๊ธฐ ์ค‘์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜์‹ค ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ์ ์€ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ…์Šจ ๋žœ์น˜์™€ ๋ฒ„ํฌ ํ• ๋กœ์šฐ ๋‘ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋ชจ๋“  ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€(permit)๋ฅผ ์™„๋ฃŒํ•œ ์ƒํƒœ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋‘ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์™€ ์ €ํฌ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ์žˆ์–ด ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์ด์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์™€์ด์˜ค๋ฐ(Wyoming) ์ฃผ์—์„œ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ๊ฒ€ํ† ๋Š” ์ œ์ถœ๋œ ์œ ์ • ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ํŒจํ‚ค์ง€(wellfield data package)์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์€ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ˆ˜์ •(nonsignificant revision)์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ„๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ†ต์ƒ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒ€ํ† ์— ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์†Œ์š”๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ํ˜„์žฌ ์—…๊ณ„์— ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์‹ ํ˜ธ์ธ ์‚ฐ์—… ๋ถ€ํ™œ๊ณผ ๋งž๋ฌผ๋ ค ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ ๋˜ํ•œ ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋ณด์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ˆ˜์ค€ ์ด์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŽ์€ ์–‘์˜ ์ธํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ํ™œ๋™์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ, ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Š” ์นจ์ฒด๊ธฐ(dormancy)์—์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ™•์žฅ๊ธฐ(expansion)๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฐ์—…์ด ๊ฒช๋Š” ์ผ์ข…์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅํ†ต(growing pains)์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์Šน์ธ๋“ค์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์Šน์ธ์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๋Œ€๋กœ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ˆœ์„œ(sequencing)์™€ ์ฆ๋Œ€(ramp)๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ณง ๋” ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•ด ์˜จ ์ž‘์—…๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ธŒ๋ ŒํŠธ ๋ฒ„๊ทธ(Brent Berg)์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Brent Berg: Senior Vice President of U.S. Operations Yes. Thanks, Amir. Alexander, I would just add that production is predominantly coming from new wells installed in 2025 with header houses and 10-7 and 10-8 at Christensen Ranch. And as Amir said, we're continuing our production ramp-up with ongoing mine development. That continued in wellfields 11 where we have four header houses that were constructed, pressure tested, and they're now ready for recirculation. And those header houses will start up following state agency review and approvals. So I think we're in a pretty good spot in terms of additional construction capacity and header houses ready to start in Wyoming and then, of course, with the Burke Hollow mine ready for operational start-up.**Brent Berg:** ๋„ค, ์•„๋ฏธ๋ฅด๋‹˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•Œ๋ ‰์‚ฐ๋”๋‹˜๊ป˜ ๋ง๋ถ™์—ฌ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์€ ์ฃผ๋กœ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ…์Šจ ๋žœ์น˜(Christensen Ranch)์˜ ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค(header houses)์™€ 10-7, 10-8 ์œ ์ •์—์„œ 2025๋…„์— ์„ค์น˜๋œ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์œ ์ •(new wells)์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์•„๋ฏธ๋ฅด๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋“ฏ์ด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ด‘์‚ฐ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ(mine development)์„ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๋Œ€(production ramp-up)๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ž‘์—…์€ 11๋ฒˆ ์œ ์ •๊ตฐ(wellfields)์—์„œ๋„ ์ด์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ณณ์—๋Š” 4๊ฐœ์˜ ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค๊ฐ€ ๊ฑด์„ค๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์••๋ ฅ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ(pressure tested)๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์ณค์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์ œ ์žฌ์ˆœํ™˜(recirculation)์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค๋“ค์€ ์ฃผ ์ •๋ถ€ ๊ธฐ๊ด€์˜ ๊ฒ€ํ† ์™€ ์Šน์ธ(approvals)์ด ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜๋Š” ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋™์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์™€์ด์˜ค๋ฐ(Wyoming)์—์„œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ฑด์„ค ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰(construction capacity)๊ณผ ๊ฐ€๋™ ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋œ ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค๋“ค์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋ฒ„ํฌ ํ• ๋กœ์šฐ ๊ด‘์‚ฐ(Burke Hollow mine) ์—ญ์‹œ ์šด์˜ ๊ฐœ์‹œ(operational start-up)๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ค€๋น„๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์ณค๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Alexander Pearce: BMO Capital Markets Equity Research Maybe I can just ask a follow-up question, which -- maybe you could just remind us of the process once you've got those approvals, is it then almost immediate that you can start recovering the uranium from those head houses? Yes, it is. And Brent, if you want to maybe just expand on that a bit with the operational readiness we're developing.**Alexander Pearce:** ๋„ค, ๊ทธ๋ ‡์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ธŒ๋ ŒํŠธ, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์šด์˜ ์ค€๋น„ ํƒœ์„ธ(operational readiness)์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?
Amir Adnani: President, CEO & Director Yes, sure. Thank you. Yes, it's a normal process. the chemicals, including oxygen and carbon dioxide are on site, and they're added to those production areas to activate the uranium recovery process as the great uranium increases in the feed to the in exchange plant, the Uranium content on the loaded resin subsequently increases. Once that resin is loaded, it's transported in a resin hauling trailer to the central processing plant for processing. So essentially, those units are ready to go following regulatory approval.**Amir Adnani:** ๋„ค, ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋„ค, ์ด๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ณผ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฐ์†Œ์™€ ์ด์‚ฐํ™”ํƒ„์†Œ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ํ™”ํ•™ ๋ฌผ์งˆ๋“ค์€ ํ˜„์žฅ์— ์ค€๋น„๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ํšŒ์ˆ˜ ๊ณต์ •์„ ํ™œ์„ฑํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•ด๋‹น ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๊ตฌ์—ญ์— ํˆฌ์ž…๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์˜จ ๊ตํ™˜ ํ”Œ๋žœํŠธ(ion exchange plant)๋กœ ์œ ์ž…๋˜๋Š” ์›๋ฃŒ์˜ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ํ’ˆ์œ„(uranium grade)๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ, ๋กœ๋”ฉ๋œ ์ˆ˜์ง€(loaded resin)์˜ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ํ•จ๋Ÿ‰๋„ ๊ทธ์— ๋น„๋ก€ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋‹น ์ˆ˜์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋กœ๋”ฉ๋˜๋ฉด, ์ˆ˜์ง€ ์šด๋ฐ˜ ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ผ๋Ÿฌ(resin hauling trailer)์— ์‹ค๋ ค ์ค‘์•™ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ํ”Œ๋žœํŠธ(central processing plant)๋กœ ์šด์†ก๋˜์–ด ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ, ํ•ด๋‹น ์„ค๋น„๋“ค์€ ๊ทœ์ œ ์Šน์ธ(regulatory approval) ์ดํ›„ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋™๋  ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋œ ์ƒํƒœ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And the next question comes from Joseph Reagor with ROTH Capital Partners.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ROTH Capital Partners์˜ Joseph Reagor๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Joseph Reagor: ROTH Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division Most of what I want to touch on was already touched on. But just want to follow up on the regulatory side, has there been any indication from them on a time frame that they expect they caught up in since it sounds like such a kind of minor approval?**Joseph Reagor:** ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋‹ค๋ค„์ง„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ๊ทœ์ œ ์ธก๋ฉด(regulatory side)๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์น˜ ๊ฒฝ๋ฏธํ•œ ์Šน์ธ(minor approval)์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ง€์—ฐ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ์ผ์ •(time frame)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‹น๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์–ด๋–ค ์–ธ๊ธ‰์ด๋‚˜ ์‹œ์‚ฌ(indication)๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Amir Adnani: President, CEO & Director Joe, thank you for joining. And again, it's very difficult to provide. But the good news is that, again, we're not talking about long delays here, we really are optimistic that we're talking days and weeks and not months and quarters, Joe. But Brent, maybe you can speak to some of the industry working group and some of the some of the other interactions that you're closer to.**Amir Adnani:** ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ˜„์žฌ๋กœ์„œ๋Š” ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ข‹์€ ์†Œ์‹์€, ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ธด ์ง€์—ฐ(long delays)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ •๋ง๋กœ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ช‡ ๋‹ฌ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ(quarters)๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ, ๋ฉฐ์น  ๋˜๋Š” ๋ช‡ ์ฃผ ์•ˆ์— ํ•ด๊ฒฐ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‚™๊ด€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ธŒ๋ ŒํŠธ, ํ˜น์‹œ ์—…๊ณ„ ์‹ค๋ฌด ๊ทธ๋ฃน(industry working group)์ด๋‚˜ ๋ธŒ๋ ŒํŠธ ์”จ๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ž˜ ์•„์‹œ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ๊ด€๊ณ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
Brent Berg: Senior Vice President of U.S. Operations So thanks, Amir. Joe, I would just add that the regulatory agencies has been very collaborative and are working to address some of the longer lead time challenges that naturally occur when the industry actively accelerates. We're an open dialogue with the state agencies and continue investing our wellfield development activities in parallel. Because the timing of these reviews are. Ultimately, they sit with the regulators. We're not providing guidance on approval time lines. But what we can say is that the infrastructure and development work is continuing to advance, and we'll certainly provide updates as key operational milestones are reached.**Brent Berg:** ์•„๋ฏธ๋ฅด๋‹˜, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ๋‹˜ ๋ง์”€์— ๋ง๋ถ™์—ฌ์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ(regulatory agencies)๋“ค์ด ๋งค์šฐ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž„ํ•ด์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์—…๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋  ๋•Œ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ๋” ๊ธด ๋ฆฌ๋“œ ํƒ€์ž„(lead time) ๋ฌธ์ œ๋“ค์„ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ฃผ ์ •๋ถ€ ๊ธฐ๊ด€๋“ค๊ณผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋™์‹œ์— ์œ ์ „ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ํ™œ๋™(wellfield development activities)์—๋„ ๊ณ„์† ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒ€ํ† ์˜ ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์˜ ์†Œ๊ด€์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์Šน์ธ ์ผ์ •(approval time lines)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค(guidance)๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ธํ”„๋ผ(infrastructure) ๋ฐ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์ž‘์—…์€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ง„์ „๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ฃผ์š” ์šด์˜์ƒ์˜ ์ด์ •ํ‘œ(operational milestones)์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜๋ฉด ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Joseph Reagor: ROTH Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division Okay. That's fair enough. And then the other item was most of your peers who are producers tend to provide like production sales data production ahead of time, ahead of their earnings. Is that something you guys might consider doing going forward, given, obviously, you're not hedged, you don't have sales schedule just so we can all be a little bit more accurate around the earnings?**Joseph Reagor:** ์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด์š”. ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๊ธฐ์—… ๋™์ข…์—…์ฒด(peers)๋“ค์€ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ(earnings) ์ „์— ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰(production) ๋ฐ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰(sales data) ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ท€์‚ฌ๋„ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด๋ณผ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”? ํŠนํžˆ ๊ท€์‚ฌ๋Š” ํ—ค์ง€(hedged)๋ฅผ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ํŒ๋งค ์ผ์ •(sales schedule)๋„ ์—†๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ ์„ ์ข€ ๋” ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ.
Amir Adnani: President, CEO & Director Joe, thanks for that. As you know, there are these unique points about UEC's positioning and differentiation to the more kind of, let's say, contracted or hedged peer group. But I think, for sure, as we see things not normalized, but some of the potential or some of the developments that we're waiting to see how they play out like U.S. government policy and Section 232 U.S. reserve, et cetera, as you can appreciate as a U.S. producer with U.S. capabilities and U.S. eligibility to sell to the U.S. government. There are very strategic reasons here as to why we've kept our books on hedged and production available to maximize value. So I think this is hopefully seen as the positive and differentiating point that it is. And as we get a better handle on those specific volumes of demand from those sources within U.S. government or the reserve or Department of Energy, et cetera, then we can also pinpoint better and share with you some of the expectations around the sales that are going to be coming up. But for the time being, as you can see, our total working capital requirements to advance all the production expansion are very adequately funded. And so as a result, the inventory that we have and the sales we will make will be extremely positioned for maximizing returns and creating value for shareholders. And we see it all as again, kind of a positive that we're set up this way for very specific purposes in the United States.**Amir Adnani:** ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ, UEC์˜ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹๊ณผ ์ฐจ๋ณ„์ ์€ ๊ณ„์•ฝ๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ—ค์ง€(Hedge)๋œ ๋™์ข…์—…์ฒด ๊ทธ๋ฃน๊ณผ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์ ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ์ •์ƒํ™”๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ƒํƒœ์—์„œ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€ ์ •์ฑ…์ด๋‚˜ 232์กฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋น„์ถ•๋Ÿ‰(Section 232 U.S. reserve) ๋“ฑ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ „๊ฐœ๋ ์ง€ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž ์žฌ์  ๋ฐœ์ „ ์‚ฌํ•ญ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ƒ์‚ฐ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€์— ํŒ๋งคํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์ž๋กœ์„œ ์ž˜ ์•„์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์žฅ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ํ—ค์ง€ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ (unhedged) ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•ด ๋‘” ๋ฐ์—๋Š” ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ทน๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋งค์šฐ ์ „๋žต์ ์ธ ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ธ์ •์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋œ ๊ฐ•์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์—ฌ์ง€๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€, ๋น„์ถ•์œ  ๊ด€๋ จ ๊ธฐ๊ด€, ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ถ€ ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์š”๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋” ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด, ํ–ฅํ›„ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜์—ฌ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ณผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ˜„์žฌ๋กœ์„œ๋Š” ๋ณด์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ, ๋ชจ๋“  ์ƒ์‚ฐ ํ™•์žฅ์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ด ์šด์ „์ž๋ณธ(working capital)์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ํ™•๋ณด๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ ์žฌ๊ณ ์™€ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•  ๋งค์ถœ์€ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ๊ทน๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฃผ์ฃผ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋งค์šฐ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์šฉํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋ชฉ์ ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ค€๋น„๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Joseph Reagor: ROTH Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division Yes. No, it's good to see a $100-plus price realization. Yes. I'll turn it over.**Joseph Reagor:** ๋„ค, 100๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์‹คํ˜„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ(price realization)์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„ค, ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: The next question comes from Justin Chan with SCP.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ SCP์˜ ์ €์Šคํ‹ด ์ฐฌ๋‹˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Justin Chan: SCP Resource Finance LP, Research Division Maybe just my first question is just a bit more clarification around production in the upcoming quarters. So for Q3, which we're in now, is it still the two header houses or how many header houses and which wellfield should we be modeling production from? And then if you could give us some color on maybe Q4 or is that the quarter where I guess, this quarter or next quarter. Is that where you're kind of waiting on regulatory approval for the new header houses you've constructed?**Justin Chan:** ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ(upcoming quarters) ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰(production)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์„ค๋ช…์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์„œ ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ(Q3)์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋‘ ๊ฐœ์˜ ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค(header houses)์—์„œ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๋Š”์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ์˜ ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค์—์„œ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋˜๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์–ด๋–ค ์œ ์ •๊ตฐ(wellfield)์„ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง(modeling)ํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”? ๋˜ํ•œ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ(Q4)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์ข€ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋‚˜ ๋‹ค์Œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ƒˆ๋กœ ๊ฑด์„คํ•˜์‹  ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทœ์ œ ์Šน์ธ(regulatory approval)์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”?
Amir Adnani: President, CEO & Director Yes, thank you. I'll let Brent go into the details, but at a high level, Justin. So as mentioned, the production that is currently -- the current production is, again, majority from the two and only two header houses at Christensen Ranch. As soon as we receive the regulatory approvals that we've been discussing on this call, then we're able to turn on new capacity at Christensen Ranch and Burke Hollow. So Justin, we're obviously still inside fiscal Q3 right now. And so those developments could still happen in Q3 and positively impact Q3. But for the most part, as we said in the last quarter as well, we did expect to see this fiscal year's production volumes be weighted towards the second half of the fiscal year. That still seems to be the case and arguably, increasingly weighted towards Q4, but Q3 possibilities are still alive and well, and we're literally in daily interactions with the state regulators. Brent, over to you.**Amir Adnani:** ๋„ค, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ๋ถ€์ ์ธ ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ๋ธŒ๋ ŒํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆด ํ…๋ฐ, ์ €์Šคํ‹ด ์”จ, ํฐ ํ‹€์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด์š”.

๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ํ˜„์žฌ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰(production)์€ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ…์Šจ ๋žœ์น˜(Christensen Ranch)์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‘ ๊ฐœ์˜ ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค(header houses)์—์„œ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ†ตํ™”์—์„œ ๋…ผ์˜ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ทœ์ œ ์Šน์ธ(regulatory approvals)์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์ฆ‰์‹œ, ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ…์Šจ ๋žœ์น˜์™€ ๋ฒ„ํฌ ํ• ๋กœ์šฐ(Burke Hollow)์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ(new capacity)์„ ๊ฐ€๋™ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €์Šคํ‹ด ์”จ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ(fiscal Q3)์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ง„์ „๋“ค์ด 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋„ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜์—ฌ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๋“ฏ์ด, ์ด๋ฒˆ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„(fiscal year)์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰(production volumes)์€ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ(second half of the fiscal year)์— ์ง‘์ค‘๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๊ณ , ์•„๋งˆ๋„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ(Q4)์— ์ ์  ๋” ๋ฌด๊ฒŒ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ถ”์„ธ์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ(Q3) ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ๋„ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์œ ํšจํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ฃผ ๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ(state regulators)๊ณผ ๋ง ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋งค์ผ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ธŒ๋ ŒํŠธ, ์ด์–ด์„œ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ์ฃ .
Brent Berg: Senior Vice President of U.S. Operations Yes. Thanks, Amir. Justin, thanks for the question. So production in the fiscal quarter came from wellfields 8 and 10 at Christensen Ranch. And as Amir mentioned, the production is predominantly coming from new wells that were installed in 2025. And our houses 10-7 and 10-8. In terms of what's currently under development and what's coming up, we have wellfield 11, where there's 4 header houses that are constructed, they were pressure tested. They're not ready for circulation. Startup will follow review or follow from review and approval of the state. We've got another three that are under construction in wellfield 12, header houses 12, one the Wells, 97% case. The house is set and the PLC and MCC are in place in wellfield 10 extension, Header House 10-9, 94% of the wells are cased the house is set and the PLC and MCC are in place. So those are both well along in the construction path. At our house 10-9, the pattern layout is completed by the geology team and drill holes are planned and stated in the field at the end of the fiscal quarter. So lots of construction activity underway. And while we await the regulatory approval, we're continuing to press on the gas with wellfield development.**Brent Berg:** ๋„ค. ์•„๋ฏธ๋ฅด๋‹˜, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €์Šคํ‹ด๋‹˜, ์งˆ๋ฌธ ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฒˆ ํšŒ๊ณ„ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ(fiscal quarter)์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰(production)์€ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ…์Šจ ๋žœ์น˜์˜ 8๋ฒˆ ๋ฐ 10๋ฒˆ ์œ ์ • ๋‹จ์ง€(wellfields)์—์„œ ๋‚˜์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋ฏธ๋ฅด๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋“ฏ์ด, ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰์€ ์ฃผ๋กœ 2025๋…„์— ์„ค์น˜๋œ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์œ ์ •(new wells)์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ์˜ 10-7 ๋ฐ 10-8 ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์ค‘์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰๋  ์‚ฌํ•ญ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, 11๋ฒˆ ์œ ์ • ๋‹จ์ง€(wellfield 11)์—๋Š” 4๊ฐœ์˜ ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค(header houses)๊ฐ€ ๊ฑด์„ค๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์••๋ ฅ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ(pressure tested)๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์ง ์ˆœํ™˜(circulation)์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ์ค€๋น„๋Š” ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๋™(startup)์€ ์ฃผ(state)์˜ ๊ฒ€ํ†  ๋ฐ ์Šน์ธ(review and approval) ์ดํ›„์— ์ง„ํ–‰๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  12๋ฒˆ ์œ ์ • ๋‹จ์ง€(wellfield 12)์—๋Š” 3๊ฐœ์˜ ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ๊ฑด์„ค ์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 12๋ฒˆ ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค์™€ ์›ฐ์Šค(Wells) ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” 97% ์™„๋ฃŒ๋œ ์ƒํƒœ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 10๋ฒˆ ์œ ์ • ํ™•์žฅ ๋‹จ์ง€์˜ ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค 10-9์—์„œ๋Š” ์ฃผ์š” ์‹œ์„ค๋ฌผ ์„ค์น˜๊ฐ€ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , PLC (ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋จธ๋ธ” ๋กœ์ง ์ปจํŠธ๋กค๋Ÿฌ)์™€ MCC (๋ชจํ„ฐ ์ œ์–ด ์„ผํ„ฐ)๋„ ์ œ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ์„ค์น˜๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ์ •์˜ 94%๊ฐ€ ์ผ€์ด์‹ฑ(casing) ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์ž‘์—…์ด ๊ฑด์„ค ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ ํ—ค๋” ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค 10-9์—์„œ๋Š” ์ง€์งˆํŒ€์— ์˜ํ•ด ํŒจํ„ด ๋ฐฐ์น˜(pattern layout) ์ž‘์—…์ด ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋ฒˆ ํšŒ๊ณ„ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ์‹œ์ถ”๊ณต(drill holes) ๊ณ„ํš์ด ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝ๋˜์–ด ํ˜„์žฅ์— ๋ช…์‹œ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฑด์„ค ์ž‘์—…์ด ํ™œ๋ฐœํžˆ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทœ์ œ ์Šน์ธ์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ์—๋„ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์œ ์ • ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์— ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๋ฐ•์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Justin Chan: SCP Resource Finance LP, Research Division Got you. And with these new houses, when they're approved, is there much preconditioning you need to do? Or can you put solution directly and there's not much of a lead time there?**Justin Chan:** ์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ฃผํƒ๋“ค์ด ์Šน์ธ๋˜๋ฉด, ์‚ฌ์ „ ์ž‘์—…์ด ๋งŽ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ๊ฐ€์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์„ ์ ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋ฆฌ๋“œ ํƒ€์ž„(lead time)์ด ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ธธ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ํŽธ์ธ๊ฐ€์š”?
Amir Adnani: President, CEO & Director Yes. Good question, Justin. We typically preconditioned for a very short period, and then we'll start adding chemical oxygen and carbon dioxide very quickly. Start the leaching process.**Amir Adnani:** ๋„ค, ์ €์Šคํ‹ด ๋‹˜, ์ข‹์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ณดํ†ต ์•„์ฃผ ์งง์€ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์‚ฌ์ „ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ(preconditioning)๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•œ ๋’ค, ํ™”ํ•™์  ์‚ฐ์†Œ์™€ ์ด์‚ฐํ™”ํƒ„์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋งค์šฐ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํˆฌ์ž…ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์นจ์ถœ ๊ณต์ •(leaching process)์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ฃ .
Justin Chan: SCP Resource Finance LP, Research Division Okay. Got you. And Texas is -- are the time lines for preconditioning similar to Wyoming?**Justin Chan:** ๋„ค, ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค์—์„œ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ „ ์กฐ๊ฑดํ™”(preconditioning) ํƒ€์ž„๋ผ์ธ์€ ์™€์ด์˜ค๋ฐ์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฌผ๋ก  ํŠน์ • ํ˜„์žฅ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด๋‚˜ ๊ทœ์ œ์ƒ์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ฌ˜ํ•œ ์ฐจ์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ณ€๋™์€ ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค์™€ ์†Œ์š” ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์€ ๋Œ€์ฒด๋กœ ์ผ๊ด€์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์–‘ ์ฃผ(state)์˜ ์šด์˜ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ์ ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ํ”„๋กœํ† ์ฝœ์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•ด ๋‘์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ํฐ ์ฐจ์ด ์—†์ด ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Amir Adnani: President, CEO & Director Yes. We'll follow the same type of start-up that we would in Wyoming for the initial wellfield down in Texas.**Amir Adnani:** ๋„ค, ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค์—์„œ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์œ ์ •์ง€๋Œ€(wellfield) ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ๋•Œ ์™€์ด์˜ค๋ฐ์—์„œ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋™์ผํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: This concludes our question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to management for any closing remarks.**Operator:** ์ด๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ €ํฌ ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋ง์”€์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„๊ป˜ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Amir Adnani: President, CEO & Director Thank you for that. Again, in summary, this quarter for UEC reinforces three themes that continue to define the company, scale financial strength and strategic positioning within the U.S. nuclear fuel supply chain. With that, thank you, everyone, for joining us today. Operator, back to you.**Amir Adnani:** ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์š”์•ฝํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ UEC๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๋Š” ์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ํ…Œ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ณต๊ณ ํžˆ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทœ๋ชจ(scale), ์žฌ๋ฌด ๊ฑด์ „์„ฑ(financial strength), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ•ต์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง(nuclear fuel supply chain) ๋‚ด์—์„œ์˜ ์ „๋žต์  ์œ„์น˜(strategic positioning)์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜คํผ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ๊ป˜ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.**Operator:** ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ข…๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐœํ‘œ์— ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ๋Š์œผ์…”๋„ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

๋‹ค์Œ์€ Uranium Energy Corp. (UEC)์˜ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์š”์•ฝ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* **๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํŒ๋งค๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ ์žฌ๋ฌด ๊ฑด์ „์„ฑ:** ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋‹น 101๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋†’์€ ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„ ํŒ๋งค๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ฌดํ—ค์ง€