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Saturday, July 9, 2011

What will happen with Uranium Supply

What will happen with Uranium
Supply

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/what-will-happen-with-uranium-supply.html
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Posted by Michele Kearney at 2:09 PM

1 comment:

  1. Michele KearneyJuly 9, 2011 at 2:09 PM

    There is another part of the story about recovery of uranium from phosphate
    ores. There have been continued concerns about uranium contamination in
    fertilizer--particularly with respect to tobacco where the product is smoked
    and its an inhaled dose. If uranium removal from phosphate ore looks economic, there will be enormous political pressure to require uranium removal to avoid
    uranium in fertilizer. At the same time, the resistance of the phosphate
    industry would disappear. One could get a lot of byproduct uranium dumped on
    the market. As a side note, there are a couple of parallel processes for
    removing uranium from other minerals that are processed--if we have really seen
    a major improvement in the technology, people will be looking at byproduct
    recovery from a couple of other types of mining.\.

    Charles Forsberg

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