加拿大、美国和日本的四家公司宣布,他们共同商定在加拿大安大略省的Elliot湖地区建设一个生产氧化钇的工厂。(他们把这一行动称之为共同的冒险)预计投资费用为1千万加元,生产能力150吨/年,大约可以满足西方氧化钇市场35％的需求量。 氧化钇是从Senison铀反应堆的副产品中提取的。这家新的工厂预计今年内可以投产。 Four companies in Canada, the United States and Japan announced that they had agreed to build a plant for producing yttria in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada. (They call this action a common adventure) with an estimated investment cost of CAD10 million and a production capacity of 150 tons / year, meeting roughly 35% of the demand in the western yttrium oxide market. Yttrium oxide is extracted from the by-product of the Senison uranium reactor. The new plant is expected to start production this year.