Sentences with phrase «more uranium ore»
Should that occur, there would be no need to mine any more uranium ore for centuries and no further requirement, ever, for uranium enrichment.
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Rio has signalled it would rather focus on more profitable commodities like copper, iron ore and uranium.
The two started examining minerals containing uranium and pitchblende, a uranium - rich ore, and realized the latter was four times more radioactive than pure uranium.
For every metric ton of uranium ore pulled from McArthur River, roughly one metric ton of waste rock, often radioactive and rich in toxic heavy metals, is produced — and other mines produce even more waste rock per ton of ore.
The report also points out that RTZ's records on radiation doses show that before 1982 individual workers were exposed to more than the permissible doses in the final processing areas, where ore is roasted to recover uranium oxide.
The data show that uranium ore deposits yet to be mined contain more than 3,500,000 tonnes («tonnes,» or «metric tons,» weigh 1000 kilograms or 2200 pounds, 10 % more than a 2000 pound «ton») of uranium.
U still around, how did it get here, what concentrated it in ore bodies on earth, and why do we not see much more lead associated with the uranium?