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.

Position in the chain

Mining Conversion Enrichment Fabrication HALEU Reprocessing

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	311
Boiling water reactor	45
Pressurised heavy water reactor	44
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

Sources

• BHP Group — company source
• Global Nuclear Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, August 2026 release — CC BY 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-06