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NEW PUBLICATIONS AND RESOURCES	ISL SPILL OF THE DAY Latest major spills and excursions reported from mines exploited by the in situ leach process
Model Regulations for Decommissioning of Facilities , IAEA TECDOC No. 1816, July 2017 (1.1MB PDF ) Uranium Marketing Annual Report, With Data for 2016 , U.S. DOE EIA, June 19, 2017 Euratom Supply Agency: Annual Report 2016 (1.8MB PDF ) International Safeguards in the Design of Fuel Fabrication Plants, IAEA Nuclear Energy Series No. NF-T-4.7, STI/PUB/1699, May 2017 (2.9 MB PDF ) Angarsk Electrolytic Chemical Combine (AECC): Annual Report 2016 (4.5MB PDF - in Russian) Update of MIMAUSA database of former uranium mine sites in France (IRSN - in French) Electrochemical Plant (ECP): Annual Report 2016 (2.9MB PDF - in Russian) Cameco Corp.: Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act Report 2016 (295kB PDF ) Domestic Uranium Production Report - Quarterly, Data for 1st Quarter 2017 (U.S. DOE EIA) Domestic Uranium Production Report - Annual, With Data for 2016 (U.S. DOE EIA) Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL): 2015-2016 Annual Report (81MB PDF in 75.6MB ZIP archive) 2016 Annual Uranium Production Rössing Uranium Ltd: 2016 Report to stakeholders (13.1MB PDF ) Areva: 2016 Reference Document (2.7MB PDF ) Cameco: 2016 Annual Report (5MB PDF ) AngloGoldAshanti Sustainable Development Report 2016 (13.5MB PDF ) AngloGoldAshanti Integrated Report 2016 (10.7MB PDF ) Urenco Sustainability Report 2016 (2.7MB PDF ) Impacts of the Fukushima Daiichi Accident on Nuclear Development Policies , OECD Nuclear Energy Agency 2017 (1.7MB PDF ) Integrating Model Abstraction into Subsurface Monitoring Strategies, NUREG/CR-7221 , U.S. NRC, March 2017 2016 Annual Site Inspection and Monitoring Report for Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act Title I Disposal Sites , U.S. Department of Energy, Legacy Management, March 2017 (31MB PDF ) Rio Tinto: 2016 Annual Report (3.2MB PDF ) Urenco Annual report and accounts 2016 (3.9MB PDF )	Crow Butte, Nebraska: Mar. 14, 2017: Injection well fails 5-year mechanical integrity test May 5, 2016: two Monitor well excursions Apr. 21, 2016: Monitor well excursion Apr. 20, 2016: Injection well fails 5-year mechanical integrity test Nov. 19, 2015: Monitor well excursion Oct. 27, 2015: Monitor well excursion Aug. 17, 2015: Injection well fails 5-year mechanical integrity test Aug. 13, 2015: Monitor well excursion July 9, 2015: Monitor well excursion July 2, 2015: Injection well fails 5-year mechanical integrity test June 3, 2015: Monitor well excursion May 28, 2015: Monitor well excursion May 27, 2015: Monitor well excursion May 21, 2015: Monitor well excursions May 19, 2015: Monitor well excursion Apr. 14, 2015: Monitor well excursion Feb. 11, 2015: Monitor well excursion Ross, Wyoming: May 25, 2017: 800 gallon spill of injection fluid Feb. 28, 2017: Samples taken from Pond 1 Monitor Well in exceedance of limits Oct. 11, 2016: 1000 gallon spill of injection solution (1.46 mg/L U) July 19, 2016: 1620 gallon spill of retention pond water (2 mg/L U) June 1, 2016: 500 - 600 gallon spill of recovery solution (22.6 ppm U) April 27, 2016: Pond monitor well indicates release from Pond 1 March 3, 2016: 1200 gallon spill of waste water (0.7 mg/L U) Nichols Ranch, Wyoming: Jun. 12, 2017: 4,500 gallon spill of injection fluid (< 1 mg/L U) Dec. 7, 2016: 2,800 gallon spill of injection fluid (< 1 mg/L U) Nov. 15, 2016: 55 gallon spill of production solution (27.4 mg/L U) Aug. 11, 2016: 670 gallon spill of injection fluid Nov. 5, 2015: 700 gallon spill of injection fluid Lost Creek, Wyoming: May 22, 2017: 1,100 gallon spill of injection fluid Feb. 6, 2017: 3,360 gallon spill of injection fluid (0.5 ppm U) Jan. 9, 2017: 3,654 gallon spill of injection fluid (1.3 ppm U) Dec. 22, 2016: 582 gallon spill of injection fluid (1.5 ppm U) Sep. 29, 2016: vertical excursion at monitor well July 20, 2016: 13,650 gallon spill of production fluid (89.1 ppm U) Oct. 18, 2015: 367 gallon spill of production fluid (59.4 mg/L U) Aug. 20, 2015: monitor well on excursion July 15, 2015: monitor well on excursion May 27, 2015: monitor well on excursion Apr. 8, 2015: 960 gallon spill of injection fluid (2.6 mg/L U) Mar. 11, 2015: 915 gallon spill of injection fluid (1.2 mg/L U) Mar. 6, 2015: 13,395 gallon spill of waste water (24.9 mg/L U) Jan. 13, 2015: 6,128 gallon spill of injection fluid (2.3 mg/L U) Smith Ranch, Wyoming: Feb. 20, 2016: 4,264 gallon spill of production fluid (11.5 ppm U) Dec. 4, 2015: Monitor well placed on excursion status Oct. 23, 2015: 41 gallon spill of production fluid (24 ppm U) May 21, 2015: 480 gallon spill of discharge fluid (7 ppm U) Jan. 16, 2015: 3,520 gallon spill of injection fluid (1.8 ppm U) PRI Highland, Wyoming: Mar. 16, 2014: 8,916 gallon spill of injection fluid (1 ppm U) North Butte, Wyoming: Sep. 22, 2016: monitor well on excursion (85 ppm U) Sep. 8, 2014: 187 gallon spill of injection fluid (2.71 ppm U) Jun. 11, 2014: 437 gallon spill of injection fluid (1.4 ppm U) Willow Creek (ex Christensen Ranch/Irigaray), Wyoming: Nov. 29, 2016: 3,300 gallon spill of injection fluid (0.67 ppm U) Oct. 17, 2016: 3,500 gallon spill of injection fluid (0.5 ppm U) Oct. 11, 2016: 1,405 gallon spill of injection fluid June 1, 2016: Monitor well placed on excursion status Apr. 30, 2016: Monitor well placed on excursion status Dec. 7, 2015: 2,100 gallon spill of production fluid (3.3 ppm U) June 30, 2015: Monitor well placed on excursion status Mar. 10, 2015: 830 gallon spill of injection fluid (1.7 ppm U) Muyunkum (Moinkum), Kazakhstan: Nov. 25, 2011: spill of 240 cubic metres of production solution, after pipeline was severed by truck Beverley, South Australia: Feb. 28, 2012: spill of 30 - 34 cubic metres Beverley North, South Australia: Feb. 20, 2016: 8980 L barren injection solution spill Dec. 2, 2013: Monitor well excursion Nov. 30, 2013: 22.4 m3 bleed solution spill July 21, 2013: 1200 L barren injection solution spill July 17, 2013: Monitor well excursion Apr. 1, 2013: 5.3 m3 pregnant injection solution spill Jan. 17, 2013: 72 m3 barren injection solution spill Honeymoon, South Australia: July 10, 2012: fumes observed emanating from the dry hopper in the Drying and Packaging controlled area Jan. 6, 2012: 30 cubic metre spill of injection solution (2 mg/L U3O8)
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"We extract ... uranium from the formation and send it to atomic reactors, so we are actually purifying the subsoil from heavy metals." (Kazatomprom senior manager Kalilallo Baytasov on groundwater impacts of uranium in situ leaching in Kazakhstan, in: Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 28, 2013) "Two thirds of the earth's surface is water... the rest we can process" (Motto of MDM Engineering Group Limited , contractor to gold/uranium miners Gold One International Ltd and Gold Fields Ltd) "Interviewed, URANEX Public Relation Officer Nyero Godwin denied the allegations, contending that the type of uranium that would be extracted was in “salt form”, insisting that no person would be affected." (referring to health problems, in particular from dust, attributed to uranium exploration performed by Uranex NL in Bahi and Manyoni districts, in: The Guardian, Tanzania, Oct. 8, 2011) "the deputy minister for Energy and Minerals, Mr Adam Malima, said the mining activities would not have any impact on the people since the minerals would only be produced in their raw form" (referring to uranium mining projects in Bahi and Manyoni districts in Tanzania, in: The Citizen, August 15, 2011) "With regard to tailings, tailings are in fact a potential future resource so I think there's a considerable incentive to manage the tailings in a very good way with that in mind." (Michael Angwin of the Australian Uranium Association referring to the uranium mill tailings from a proposed expansion of the Olympic Dam uranium mine, ABC Aug. 5, 2011) "Another woman said Arizona Mine Inspector Joe Hart of Kingman told her the mining process would make the environment cleaner." (Mohave Daily News, July 7, 2011, reporting on meeting of Mohave County Board of Supervisors, before it voted to support rather than ban uranium mining near the Grand Canyon) "No, that's not radioactive, you can't say that. This is water that indeed contains radium, a certain number of products [...]" (François Sublime, technical director of Areva's subsidiary COMUF responsible for reclamation of the Mounana uranium mine site, Gabon, referring to the water covering the uranium mill tailings dam; RFI May 28, 2011) "Mining is a 24 hour operation and cannot be stopped as a result of a shortage of available dust masks" (Johan De Bruin, geology superintendent of Paladin's Kayelekera uranium mine in Malawi, Nyasa Times Sep. 25, 2010) "at the mine we focus on production matters" (Mr. Werner Duvenhage, Managing Director Langer Heinrich, Paladin Energy Africa, September 2010, in an email communication with WISE Amsterdam, denying request for information and site visit) "This is like a water clean up project, and we are going to sell the by-product on" (Powertech project manager Mark Hollenbeck on the Dewey-Burdock in situ leach uranium mining project, South Dakota Public Broadcasting Apr. 5, 2010) "We're taking the uranium out of the ground, we're exporting it to be used for productive purposes, so we should be getting a medal for cleaning up the environment." (Neville Huxham, Malawi country director for Paladin Energy Africa, operator of the Kayelekera uranium mine, IPS Aug. 24, 2009)