Sentences with phrase «uranium reserve in»

Because the world's uranium supply is finite and the continued growth in the numbers of thermal reactors could exhaust the available low - cost uranium reserves in a few decades, it makes little sense to discard this spent fuel or the «tailings» left over from the enrichment process.

Not exact matches

Its motherlode consists of extraordinarily high - grade uranium deposits in Saskatchewan: the McArthur River and Cigar Lake deposits account for roughly 80 % of its proven and probable reserves.

But in addition to Russia's Uranium reserves (9 % of the worlds), they're buying up other reserves over cost.

In science news around the world, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cracks down on stem cell labs, Brazil opens one of its largest national reserves to gold and iron mining, and the International Atomic Energy Agency launches a global bank for low - enriched uranium.

In particular, a relatively new form of nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the management of dangerous, long - lived radioactive waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.

Addressing shareholders at the company's annual general meeting in Darwin yesterday, Peter Mansell said that, with a third of the world's total undeveloped uranium reserves, the potential to expand Australian uranium mining was real.

In 1979, U.S. reserves of uranium at the $ 50 / pound cost of recovery were 979,000 tonnes, and New Mexico uranium reserves were 511,500 tonnes, or 52 % of that total.

, published on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/quando-recursos-minerais-se-esgotarao-648952.shtml >, based on information from the US Geological Survey, the US government agency responsible for geological research that crossed information on the annual consumption, mineral reserves available on the planet and its predictable extinction: 1) Platinum (use in surgical materials)-- Extinction by 2049; 2) Silver (use in the manufacture of mirrors and cutlery)-- Extinction in 2016; 3) Copper (use in wire and cable and air conditioning ducts)-- Extinction in 2027; 4) Antimony (use in remote controls and other materials to increase strength)-- Extinction 2020; 5) Lithium (use in cell phone batteries, laptops and video games)-- Extinction in 2053; 6) Phosphorus (use in agricultural fertilizers)-- Extinction in 2149; 7) Uranium (use for electric power generation)-- Extinction in 2026; 8) Indian (use in smartphones and tablets touch screen screens)-- Extinction in 2020; 9) Tantalum (use in cameras lenses)-- Extinction in 2027; 10) Nickel (use in metal alloy coating, electronics such as cell phones)-- Extinction in 2064; 11) Tin (use in coating metal alloys, such as those used in the soft drink cans)-- Extinction 2024; 12) Lead (use in car batteries and trucks and welds and bearings)-- Extinction in 2015; 13) Gold (use as jewelry and computer microchips)-- Extinction in 2043; 14) Zinc (use to cover alloys, preventing rust that destroy objects like coins)-- Extinction in 2041.

Known reserves of uranium (other than low concentrations in granite and seawater) are actually roughly equivalent in energy content to estimated fossil fuel reserves.

In the decade following its publication world bauxite reserves increased 35 %, copper 25 %, nickel 25 %, uranium and coal doubled, gas increased 70 % and even oil increased 6 %.)

The Department of Energy estimates that the U.S. has proven uranium reserves of at least 300 million pounds, primarily in New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming.

I'm sure they're no more planning to leave uranium in the ground, than the fossil industry are planning to leave their reserves in the ground.

It probably makes sense in Austrialia, too, given Australias huge reserve of high quality uranium ore.