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 practi…
This book contain Introduction; Energy use; Electricity today and tomorrow; Nuclear power; The “front end” of the nuclear fuel cycle; The “back end” of the nuclear fuel cycle; Other nuclear energy applications; Environment, health and safety issues; Avoiding weapons proliferation; and History of nuclear energy. (Jml)