Sentences with phrase «from uranium deposits»

Is there irony in the fact that this barren Utah desert, where the story takes place, holds the promise of great wealth from its uranium deposits?

Not exact matches

In discussing the regional geology (p. 807) and age (p. 811) of the Koongarra uranium deposits, Snelling 2 describes their geological history in fairly technical terms, however, to avoid the charge we lay against the creationists, of taking quotations out of context, I will quote Snelling 2 verbatim from the paper (p. 807):
Depending on shifting cave conditions and varying amounts of uranium drainage from mineral deposits, this method can over - or underestimate when rock art was created, the scientists argued.
Uranium, the radioactive element that fuels nuclear power plants and occurs naturally in the Earth's crust, is typically mined from large sandstone deposits deep underground.
Scientists sampled a 650 - foot deep sediment core from roll - front uranium deposits at an unmined site at Wyoming's Smith Ranch Highlands.
Such uranium deposits in Canada, Australia and Kazakhstan comprise the bulk of the world's known supply — although uranium is a ubiquitous atom that can even be derived from seawater.
According to the complaint and his online biography, Snelling obtained a doctoral degree in geology from the University of Sydney in 1982 and began his career by studying the Koongarra uranium deposit in Australia's Northern Territory.
Russian UET resources with 311,000 tonnes of uranium, as well as the remaining Russia «excess» HEU with 108,000 tonnes of uranium, could continue to offset demand for primary uranium from unmined ore deposits, and could reduce the likelihood that new mines such as those proposed near Church Rock and Crownpoint in New Mexico would be mined in the future.
First, Russia was unable to increase its domestic uranium production to meet its domestic reactor needs as Russia has been unable to increase production from either its primary uranium ore deposits at Krasnokamensk in the Chita Region (see www.sric.org/mining/docs/Chitafin.php), or new deposits.
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