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Category : Uranium industry
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Category : Uranium industry
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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This publication provides statistical data on the U.S. uranium industry's activities relating to uranium raw materials and uranium marketing.

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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1422349349
Category : Uranium industry
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1422349411
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Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Uranium production in the United States has declined dramatically from a peak of 43.7 million pounds U[sub 3]O[sub 8] (16.8 thousand metric tons uranium (U)) in 1980 to 3.1 million pounds U[sub 3]O[sub 8] (1.2 thousand metric tons U) in 1993. This decline is attributed to the world uranium market experiencing oversupply and intense competition. Large inventories of uranium accumulated when optimistic forecasts for growth in nuclear power generation were not realized. The other factor which is affecting U.S. uranium production is that some other countries, notably Australia and Canada, possess higher quality uranium reserves that can be mined at lower costs than those of the United States. Realizing its competitive advantage, Canada was the world's largest producer in 1993 with an output of 23.9 million pounds U[sub 3]O[sub 8] (9.2 thousand metric tons U). The U.S. uranium industry, responding to over a decade of declining market prices, has downsized and adopted less costly and more efficient production methods. The main result has been a suspension of production from conventional mines and mills. Since mid-1992, only nonconventional production facilities, chiefly in situ leach (ISL) mining and byproduct recovery, have operated in the United States. In contrast, nonconventional sources provided only 13 percent of the uranium produced in 1980. ISL mining has developed into the most cost efficient and environmentally acceptable method for producing uranium in the United States. The process, also known as solution mining, differs from conventional mining in that solutions are used to recover uranium from the ground without excavating the ore and generating associated solid waste. This article describes the current ISL Yang technology and its regulatory approval process, and provides an analysis of the factors favoring ISL mining over conventional methods in a declining uranium market.

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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1422349322
Category : Uranium industry
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Author: Gordon Press Publishers
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Languages : en
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1422349330
Category : Uranium industry
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Category : Uranium industry
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
Publisher: OECD Publishing
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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The "Red Book", jointly prepared by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency, is a recognised world reference source on the uranium industry. This publication collates and analyses key information drawn from the twenty editions of the Red Book published between 1965 and 2004, in order to set out a comprehensive review of developments in the world uranium industry from the birth of civilian nuclear energy through to the beginning of the 21st century. It summarises developments in the major uranium-producing countries and topics covered include: installed nuclear capacity, reactor-related uranium requirements, market price, exploration, resources, production, natural and enriched uranium inventories, thorium, mine start-up and closure histories, environmental aspects of uranium mining and processing.

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Category : Uranium industry
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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