Sentences with phrase «grade uranium ore»
Which is a good job, given the shortage of high - grade uranium ore, the huge unmanageable risks associated with nuclear plants and nuclear proliferation, the large amounts of embedded carbon in uranium refining and processing (and other GHG emissions from the nuclear industry), and the insanity of developing a huge strategic fuel dependence on countries such as Russia.
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The higher uranium price reflects the need to move to ever deeper mines, which increases the energy needed to extract the ore, and the shift to lower - grade ore.
The amount of uranium ore of high enough grade for use in thermal uranium based reactors is not so plentiful that it would last very long in worldwide use.