At Ornano‘s headquarters in Châtillon on the outskirts of Paris, no mood of crisis is visible from the outside in the days following the military coup in Niger. The lights in the offices of the French nuclear company do not stay on longer than usual. Yet the mining sites of the two companies Somaïr and Cominak near Arlit in the north of the Sahel state are important locations for Orano. So far, they have extracted just under 3,000 tons of uranium for the French nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Soon, the third mining site, Imouraren, should actually go into production.