BHP Group
BHP Group is a AUS company active in the nuclear fuel chain as miner.
Operator of Olympic Dam in South Australia, where uranium is recovered as a by-product of copper mining. Because the economics are driven by copper, Olympic Dam's uranium output is largely insensitive to the uranium price, an unusual position in the market.
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia |
|---|---|
| Founded | not recorded |
| Ownership | listed |
| Listing | ASX: BHP |
| Roles in the chain | miner |
Position in the chain
Downstream
Output from this company feeds the stages below it in the chain, and ultimately 419 operating reactors across these types.
| Reactor type | Operating units |
|---|---|
| Pressurised water reactor | 309 |
| Pressurised heavy water reactor | 46 |
| Boiling water reactor | 45 |
| Gas-cooled reactor | 9 |
| Light water graphite reactor | 7 |
| Fast reactor | 2 |
| High-temperature gas reactor | 1 |
Facilities
| Facility | Stage | Country | Capacity / output | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Dam | mining | AUS | 2,693tU/yr | operating |
BHP Group in context
BHP Group has 1 facility on record in 1 country (Australia): 1 operating.
How these are worked out: shares and ranks use the world totals cited in the table, and only named companies are ranked (unnamed or country-level entries in a source are not). A facility with no stated capacity is counted as a facility but adds nothing to a capacity figure. Vendor figures count operating units where this company is the recorded reactor vendor; ages count from the start-up year on record, and build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the age and build-times pages.
Sources
- BHP Group, company source
- Global Nuclear Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, August 2026 release , CC BY 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-06
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