Sentences with phrase «uranium ore deposits»
In the race for the atomic bomb in the lead up to World War II, the Allies had effectively secured most of the world uranium ore deposits under their power.
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Why hundreds of other uranium ore deposits did not become natural reactors is a mystery.
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.
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.
The element later turned up in uranium ore deposits, where natural radioactivity can produce traces of plutonium.
Not exact matches
Conventional wisdom has told us that uranium within ore deposits is mostly found in the form of uraninite, a crystalline mineral.
Borch, working on an unrelated experiment studying the composition of uranium at mined and unmined sites in Wyoming, surmised that this biogenic (of biological origin), non-crystalline uranium might occur naturally within ore deposits.
Known recoverable uranium resources in unmined ore deposits by country as of 2004 are shown in Table 1.
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.