Author: Holger AlbrethsenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uranium industry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Summary History of Domestic Uranium Procurement Under U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Contracts
Author: Holger AlbrethsenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uranium industry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis
Author: Uranium Industry Annual 1992
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 142234942X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Uranium Industry Annual provides current statistical data on the US uranium industry for the Congress, Federal and State agencies, the uranium and electric utility industries, and the public. The feature article, ''Decommissioning of US Conventional Uranium Production Centers,'' is included. Data on uranium raw materials activities including exploration activities and expenditures, resources and reserves, mine production of uranium, production of uranium concentrate, and industry employment are presented in Chapter 1. Data on uranium marketing activities including domestic uranium purchases, commitments by utilities, procurement arrangements, uranium imports under purchase contracts and exports, deliveries to enrichment suppliers, inventories, secondary market activities, utility market requirements, and uranium for sale by domestic suppliers are presented in Chapter 2.
Uranium Industry Annual 1993
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1422349411
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Uranium production in the United States has declined dramatically from a peak of 43.7 million pounds U[sub 3]O[sub 8] (16.8 thousand metric tons uranium (U)) in 1980 to 3.1 million pounds U[sub 3]O[sub 8] (1.2 thousand metric tons U) in 1993. This decline is attributed to the world uranium market experiencing oversupply and intense competition. Large inventories of uranium accumulated when optimistic forecasts for growth in nuclear power generation were not realized. The other factor which is affecting U.S. uranium production is that some other countries, notably Australia and Canada, possess higher quality uranium reserves that can be mined at lower costs than those of the United States. Realizing its competitive advantage, Canada was the world's largest producer in 1993 with an output of 23.9 million pounds U[sub 3]O[sub 8] (9.2 thousand metric tons U). The U.S. uranium industry, responding to over a decade of declining market prices, has downsized and adopted less costly and more efficient production methods. The main result has been a suspension of production from conventional mines and mills. Since mid-1992, only nonconventional production facilities, chiefly in situ leach (ISL) mining and byproduct recovery, have operated in the United States. In contrast, nonconventional sources provided only 13 percent of the uranium produced in 1980. ISL mining has developed into the most cost efficient and environmentally acceptable method for producing uranium in the United States. The process, also known as solution mining, differs from conventional mining in that solutions are used to recover uranium from the ground without excavating the ore and generating associated solid waste. This article describes the current ISL Yang technology and its regulatory approval process, and provides an analysis of the factors favoring ISL mining over conventional methods in a declining uranium market.
Domestic Uranium Mining Industry
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and PowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Competition, International
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Quest for the Golden Circle
Author: Arthur R. GómezPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Until World War II, the Four Corners Region—where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona meet—was a collection of isolated rural towns. In the postwar baby boom era, however, small communities like Farmington, New Mexico, became bustling municipalities with rapidly expanding economies. In Quest for the Golden Circle, Arthur Gomez traces the development of the Four Corners' two industries, mining and tourism, to discover how each contributed to the economic and urban transformation of this region during the 1950s and 1960s. Focusing on four cities—Durango, Colorado; Moab, Utah; Flagstaff, Arizona; and Farmington, New Mexico—Gomez chronicles how these towns played key roles in the West's dramatic postwar expansion. Cities such as Denver, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, and Salt Lake City all grew through use of the abundant petroleum, uranium, natural gas, timber, and other natural resources extracted from the Four Corners region. But the energy boom in these towns was not to last. With the arrival of foreign oil bringing economic growth to a halt in the early 1970s, town leaders turned again to the land to stimulate their economy. This time, the resource was a seemingly inexhaustible one—tourism. Gomez examines how business-minded citizens marketed the area's scenic wonders and established the entire region as a tourist destination. Their efforts were further assisted by the selection of stunning federal lands—Mesa Verde, Grand Canyon, and Arches National Parks—as treasures protected and promoted by the National Park Service. Both mining and tourism, however, were beset by complex new problems and issues. Extensive highways, for instance, were planned to bisect a Navajo reservation. As Gomez illustrates, the growing cities in the Four Corners region felt tremendous competing pressures between outside business powers and local needs as their extractive economy boomed and busted and as they then struggled to attract tourism dollars. In addition, he highlights the prominent roles played by federal agencies like the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Park Service in shaping regional destiny. An outstanding analysis of the complexities of postwar development, Quest for the Golden Circle successfully illuminates the history of one region within the larger story of the modern American West.
Uranium Enrichment and Supply
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy and the EnvironmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uranium
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Forty Years of Uranium Resources, Production and Demand in Perspective
Author: OECD Nuclear Energy AgencyPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The "Red Book", jointly prepared by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency, is a recognised world reference source on the uranium industry. This publication collates and analyses key information drawn from the twenty editions of the Red Book published between 1965 and 2004, in order to set out a comprehensive review of developments in the world uranium industry from the birth of civilian nuclear energy through to the beginning of the 21st century. It summarises developments in the major uranium-producing countries and topics covered include: installed nuclear capacity, reactor-related uranium requirements, market price, exploration, resources, production, natural and enriched uranium inventories, thorium, mine start-up and closure histories, environmental aspects of uranium mining and processing.
Energy Research Abstracts
Author: Uranium Industry Annual 1994
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1422349403
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description