** U.S.-listed shares of Canadian uranium supplier Cameco Corp CCO.TO, CCJ.N rise 13.5% to $98.35 premarket
** Company, along with Brookfield Asset Management BAM.TO and Westinghouse Electric Company, enters a partnership with the U.S. government to accelerate the deployment of nuclear power
** Partnership aims to build at least $80 billion worth of new nuclear reactors across the country
** The reactors are expected to generate reliable and secure power for the U.S. grid, for data center operations and compute capacity
** Until last close, stock was up 68.5% YTD
(Reporting by Pooja Menon in Bengaluru)
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