For my nuclear nerds: one of the funny things about this is that Mongolia actually is home to a big uranium mine that the Russians abandoned in 1995.

France's Orano has a presence in Mongolia using the less environmentally disruptive ISR mining technique

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France's Orano has a presence in Mongolia using the less environmentally disruptive ISR mining technique

https://www.orano.group/en/orano-across-the-world/mongolia

Were you there covering the deal? 

What do you think, will it work out?

They've proven the approach with the KATCO JV in Kazakhstan 

If I understand correctly, it should be replicable in Mongolia given that the deposit is between impermeable subsoil layers like in Kazakhstan

yeah that's right. I was in Mongolia the week they signed that deal