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- Ageing Management for Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities
 , IAEA Safety Report Series, May 2023 (2MB PDF  )
- Determination of Environmental Remediation End States , IAEA Nuclear Energy Series, May 2023 (1.7MB PDF )
- Technical Approaches for the Management of Separated Civilian Plutonium , IAEA Nuclear Energy Series, May 2023 (2.3MB PDF )
- World Uranium Production 2022
- Domestic Uranium Production Report First-Quarter 2023 , U.S. DOE EIA, May 2023 (257kB PDF )
- CGN Mining Co Ltd: Annual Report 2022
- Kazatomprom: Annual Report 2022
- Orano: Annual Activity Report 2022 (3.1MB PDF )
- Cameco: 2022 Annual Report
- Uranium 2022: Resources, Production and Demand , OECD NEA / IAEA, Apr. 2023 (6.3MB PDF )
[The latest edition of the biennial authoritative "Red Book"]
- Safety of Uranium and Plutonium Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facilities , Specific Safety Guide
No. SSG-7 (Rev. 1), IAEA Mar. 2023 (1.5MB PDF )
- Safety of Uranium Fuel Fabrication Facilities , Specific Safety Guide No. SSG-6 (Rev. 1), IAEA Mar. 2023 (2.1MB PDF )
- Denison Mines Inc.: Annual Report 2022 (4.1MB PDF )
- Energy Resources of Australia Ltd: Annual Report 2022 (4.9MB PDF )
- Yeelirrie: 50 years of resistance (CCWA)
[New book marks the 50-year fight against uranium mining at Yeelirrie, Western Australia]
- La Russie, plaque tournante de l'uranium , Greenpeace France, Mar. 11, 2023 (2.3MB PDF - in French
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[Russia, a uranium hub: investigation into the links between the French nuclear industry and the Russian nuclear company Rosatom]
- Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL): Annual Report 2021-22 (11.9MB PDF )
- Waste Management Symposium 2022 Proceedings
[Now available for free download]
- Urenco: Annual Report 2022 (5.6MB PDF )
- Domestic Uranium Production Report Fourth-Quarter 2022 , U.S. DOE EIA, Feb. 2023 (267kB PDF )
- Rapport du groupe de travail relatif à l'évaluation de la tenue des ouvrages ceinturant les stockages de résidus de traitement de minerais d'uranium , Version de juillet 2022 (3.5MB PDF - in French )
[Report of a working group recommending better assessement and management of seismic and climatic hazards for the stability of uranium mill tailings dams in France]
- Maximising Uranium Mining's Social and Economic Benefits: A Guide for Stakeholders , OECD Nuclear Energy Agency 2023 (18.9MB PDF )
- Dose coefficients for external exposures to environmental sources, ICRP Publication 144 , Ann. ICRP 49(2), 2020
[Now available for free download. Note: the EDC Viewer software included in Supplement Material 1 must be run in compatibility mode for Windows XP (Service Pack 3)]
- Milestones in the Development of National Infrastructure for the Uranium Production Cycle , IAEA, Jan. 2023 (2.8MB PDF )
[includes case studies for Namibia and Tanzania]
- Management of Depleted Uranium Used as Shielding in Disused Radiation Devices , IAEA, Jan. 2023 (17.5MB PDF )
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Crow Butte, Nebraska:
Mar. 15, 2023: Restoration and development pond liner leak
July 21, 2022: Injection well fails 5-year mechanical integrity test
Feb. 16, 2022: Evaporation Pond 1 liner leak
Dec. 14, 2021: Evaporation Pond 1 liner leak
Sep. 22, 2020: Injection well fails 5-year mechanical integrity test
May 29, 2020: Monitor well excursion
May 21, 2020: Monitor well excursion
Mar. 3, 2020: Production well fails 5-year mechanical integrity test
Jan. 31, 2020: Production well fails 5-year mechanical integrity test
Jan. 2, 2020: Evaporation Pond 1 liner leak
Aug. 22, 2019: Monitor well excursion
July 11, 2019: Production well fails 5-year mechanical integrity test
June 24, 2019: Production well fails 5-year mechanical integrity test
June 5, 2019: Monitor well excursion
May 29, 2019: Evaporation Pond 1 liner leak
May 2, 2019: Monitor well excursion
Apr. 18, 2019: Monitor well excursion
Apr. 9, 2019: Monitor well excursion
Mar. 27, 2019: Monitor well excursion
Mar. 25, 2019: Monitor well excursion
Nov. 28, 2018: Monitor well excursion
June 1, 2018: Monitor well excursion
Sep. 12, 2017: 27,287 gallon spill of injection solution
Aug. 29, 2017: Monitor well excursion
July 27, 2017: Production well fails 5-year mechanical integrity test
Mar. 14, 2017: Injection well fails 5-year mechanical integrity test
Ross, Wyoming:
post Sep. 30, 2018: withheld *)
Aug. 9, 2017: 4,316 gallon spill of injection fluid
July 27, 2017: 10,008 gallon spill of injection fluid
May 25, 2017: 800 gallon spill of injection fluid
Feb. 28, 2017: Samples taken from Pond 1 Monitor Well in exceedance of limits
Nichols Ranch, Wyoming:
post Sep. 30, 2018: withheld *)
Jun. 12, 2017: 4,500 gallon spill of injection fluid (< 1 mg/L U)
Lost Creek, Wyoming:
post Sep. 30, 2018: withheld *)
Aug. 16, 2018: monitor well on excursion
Jul. 28, 2018: 1,625 gallon spill of production fluid (84 mg/L U3O8)
Jun. 21, 2018: monitor well on excursion
Apr. 5-7, 2018: bleed rate lower than 0.5% requirement
Oct. 9, 2017: monitor well on excursion
Sep. 5, 2017: 10,000 gallon spill of injection fluid (1.1 ppm U)
Aug. 19, 2017: 188,000 gallon [712 m3] spill of injection fluid (1.2 mg/L U)
May 22, 2017: 1,100 gallon spill of injection fluid (1.5 mg/L U)
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)
Smith Ranch, Wyoming:
post Sep. 30, 2018: withheld *)
Oct. 19, 2017: 533 gallon spill of restoration recovery fluid (4.2 ppm U)
PRI Highland, Wyoming:
post Sep. 30, 2018: withheld *)
Mar. 16, 2014: 8,916 gallon spill of injection fluid (1 ppm U)
North Butte, Wyoming:
post Sep. 30, 2018: withheld *)
May 7, 2018: monitor well on excursion
Nov. 17, 2017: two monitor wells on excursion
Willow Creek (ex Christensen Ranch/Irigaray), Wyoming:
post Sep. 30, 2018: withheld *)
Aug. 6, 2018: 4,130 gallon spill of recovery fluid (9.6 ppm U3O8)
June 29, 2018: Monitor well placed on excursion status
Aug. 9, 2017: 7,400 gallon spill of production fluid (8.9 ppm U)
Jul. 25, 2017: 5,000 gallon spill of injection fluid (1.1 ppm U) and production fluid (9.7 ppm U)
May 24, 2017: 3,600 gallon spill of injection fluid (0.41 - 0.81 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
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)
Four Mile, South Australia:
Jan. 27, 2022: approx. 15 cubic metre spill of extraction mining solution
*) On September 30, 2018, Wyoming became an agreement state with the NRC, assuming regulatory authority over uranium in situ leach mining, uranium milling and mill tailings on its territory. Spill reports from Wyoming ISL sites, therefore, no longer appear in NRC's ADAMS document system, while the state has not set up a comparable document system of its own.
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"After recovery of uranium in the mill, bulk of the material processed emerges as tailings. Its radioactivity content is very low. It is not correct to state that radioactive matter, which is highly toxic in nature, is present in the tailings pond".
(Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) on the radioactivity content in the tailings pond at the UCIL uranium mine at Tummalapalle, Andhra Pradesh, India, in: New Indian Express, Sep. 12, 2021)
"It is a misunderstanding that uranium mining can cause radioactivity. It is not true because uranium gets radioactive only when it is enriched. Otherwise, uranium is just like any other soil as it has got no radiation"
(TP Sreenivasan, former Governor for India of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in The Shillong Times, Sep. 25, 2017)
"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)
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