Uranium for Nuclear Power: Resources, Mining and Transformation to Fuel

by Ian Hore-Lacy

Overview

Uranium for Nuclear Power: Resources, Mining and Transformation to Fuel discusses the nuclear industry and its dependence on a steady supply of competitively priced uranium as a key factor in its long-term sustainability. A better understanding of uranium ore geology and advances in exploration and mining methods will facilitate the discovery and exploitation of new uranium deposits. The practice of efficient, safe, environmentally-benign exploration, mining and milling technologies, and effective site decommissioning and remediation are also fundamental to the public image of nuclear power. This book provides a comprehensive review of developments in these areas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780081003077
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	03/14/2016
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ian Hore-Lacy, World Nuclear Association (WNA), UK, has been involved with uranium mining since the 1970s and nuclear power since 1995. He joined the mining industry as an environmental scientist in 1974 with CRA (now Rio Tinto). He is the author of the successful textbook Nuclear Electricity, the expanded eighth to tenth editions of which were published under the title Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Geology, resources and markets: primary uranium

1. Uranium for nuclear power: an introduction

I. Hore-Lacy

2. Geology of uranium deposits

P. Bruneton and M. Cuney

3. Exploration for uranium

K. Kyser

4. Uranium resources

R. Vance

5. The uranium market, supply adjustments from secondary sources and enrichment underfeeding

S. Kidd

Part 2 Mining and alternative fuel sources

6. Uranium mining (open cut and underground) and milling

P. Woods

7. Introduction to uranium in situ recovery technology

M. Pelizza and C. Bartels

8. Nuclear fuel from secondary supplies of uranium and plutonium

J. Combs

9. Production of by-product uranium and uranium from unconventional resources

I. Hore-Lacy

10. Thorium as a nuclear fuel

B. van Gosen and H. Tulsidas

Part 3 Conversion, enrichment and fuel fabrication

11. Uranium conversion

A. Oliver and E. Ozberk

12. Uranium enrichment

P. Harding

13. Nuclear fuel fabrication

E. Supko

Part 4 Environmental and social issues

14. Management for health, safety, environment and community (HSEC) in uranium mining and processing

F. Harris

15. Safe and secure packaging and transport of uranium materials

D. Hem

16. Uranium mine and mill remediation and reclamation

D. Collier

17. Inter-regional technical cooperation for education and training in the uranium industry

P. Wieland

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From the Publisher

As an all-encompassing resource on the nuclear industry and its dependence on competitively priced uranium, this book provides a comprehensive review of the developments in uranium exploration, mining, milling, and its conversion to fuel, also including best practices for efficient, safe, environmentally-benign exploration.