French nuclear engineer Areva SA says it made euro2 billion ($3 billion) in sales in the first quarter, up 2.2 percent from a year earlier as rising uranium prices boosted the firm’s mining and enrichment business.
Areva said in a statement Monday its front end division, which includes uranium mining and enrichment, made sales of euro802 million in the first quarter, up 19 percent from euro674 million a year earlier.
Areva’s other divisions, including its reactor building and nuclear (…)