The Joint NEA/IAEA Group on Uranium (UG)

Uranium Resources, Production and Demand, also familiarly known as the "Red Book", is a biennial publication produced jointly by the NEA and the IAEA under the auspices of the joint NEA/IAEA Uranium Group. The first edition was published in 1965. Twenty-two editions have since been published and the Uranium Group is now in the process of preparing the 23rd edition, the 2009 Red Book. As the only government-sponsored publication tracking world trends and developments in uranium resources, production and demand, the Red Book is an authoritative source of statistics and information.

The general objectives of the Uranium Group are to:

• co-ordinate the preparation of periodic assessments of the world's supply of natural uranium;
• examine the relationship of these supply capabilities to projections of natural uranium demand;
• foster the exchange of technical information in the fields of uranium resources, exploration and production technology in co-operation with member countries, and with other international organisations as appropriate;
• recommend to the NEA and the IAEA actions that might be taken to assure adequate long-term supply of uranium for nuclear power development.

The group's primary area of work is producing the biennial publication of the Red Book but it also reviews other topics of interest, such as the environmental protection practices in the uranium mining industry. It also monitors all developments that could impact the uranium industry.

Members of the Uranium Group are nominated by governments. They include experts from government agencies and from industrial and research organisations with interests in uranium geology, mining and processing.

Related links

There is enough uranium known to exist to fuel the world's fleet of nuclear reactors at current consumption rates for at least a century, according to the latest edition of the world reference on uranium published today.

• Uranium 2007: Resources, Production and Demand
  A Joint Report by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency ("Red Book")

  • Uranium resources sufficient to meet projected nuclear energy requirements long into the future
    Press communiqué, 3 June 2008
    
    
• Forty Years of Uranium Resources, Production and Demand in Perspective
  "The Red Book Retrospective"
  
• Uranium 2005: Resources, Production and Demand
  A Joint Report by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency ("Red Book")
  
• Uranium 2003: Resources, Production and Demand
  A Joint Report by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency
  
• Environmental Remediation of Uranium Production Facilities
  A Joint NEA/IAEA Report, 2002

• International Atomic Energy Agency
  
  
• Uranium Group Working Area (restricted access)

Contacts:

• Robert Vance (robert.vance@oecd.org) - NEA Secretariat
• Jan Slezak (j.slezak@iaea.org) - IAEA Secretariat

Last updated: 3 June 2008