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Urenco Group
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<p>The Urenco Group is a British-German-Dutch nuclear fuel consortium operating several <a href="/facts/Uranium_enrichment/vSb2Tcsb">uranium enrichment</a> plants in Germany, the Netherlands, United States, and United Kingdom. It supplies nuclear power stations in about 15 countries, and states that it had a 29% share of the global market for enrichment services in 2011. Urenco uses <a href="/facts/Zippe-type_centrifuge/8T4ajERY">centrifuge</a> enrichment technology. </p><p>Urenco, headquartered in <a href="/facts/Stoke_Poges/1RdGAXEE">Stoke Poges</a>, England, is owned one third by the UK government, one third by the Dutch government, and the final third equally by two major German utilities, <a href="/facts/E.ON/XK5MBNvF">E.ON</a> and <a href="/facts/RWE/kcygIe3h">RWE</a>. </p>