Nuclear Fuel Infrastructure - Isotope Separation Facilities, Nuclear Reprocessing, Uranium Mining, Amur Oblast, Sellafield, Nuclear Fuel Cycle (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: Isotope separation facilities, Nuclear reprocessing, Uranium mining, Amur Oblast, Sellafield, Nuclear fuel cycle, List of uranium mines, Behavior of nuclear fuel during a reactor accident, Thorium fuel cycle, MOX fuel, Spent nuclear fuel, Krugersdorp, Fluoride volatility, Mayak, PUREX, Institute for Transuranium Elements, Y-12 National Security Complex, Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant, Novouralsk, Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, Uranium mining debate, K-25, Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, COGEMA La Hague site, Post Irradiation Examination, Uranium Corporation of India, Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site, West Valley Reprocessing Plant, Plutonium Finishing Plant, Botanical prospecting for uranium, Uranium by country, List of countries by uranium reserves, Transbaikal, Reprocessed uranium, List of countries by uranium production, National Enrichment Facility, Honeywell Uranium Hexafluoride Processing Facility, CANFLEX, Canada's Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System, Paddy Martinez, Valindaba, B205, Nuclear fuel cycle information system, Clab, Geomelting, EUREX, Bismuth phosphate process, Bateman Pulsed Column. Excerpt: Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground. As uranium ore is mostly present at relatively low concentrations, most uranium mining is very volume-intensive, and thus tends to be undertaken as open-pit mining. It is also undertaken in only a small number of countries of the world, partly because sufficiently high uranium concentrations to motivate mining at current prices are rare. The worldwide production of uranium in 2009 amounted to 50,572 tonnes, of which 27% was mined in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia are the top three producers and together account for 63% of world uranium production. Other im...