Prof.
Juzhi Deng
(East China University of Technology)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 4. Advances in exploration
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
Geophysics is one of the most useful technique for uranium exploration. It supports the development of geological theory through the definition of lithological, structural and alteration characteristics of metallogenic environments under evaluation. With the increasing of prospecting depth, the traditional radiometric will no longer be effective for uranium exploration. Despite...
Ms
Jarunee Kraikaew
(Office of Atoms for Peace)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 10. Health, safety, environment and social responsibility
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
The information of nuclear materials, only location outside facilities (LOF) in Thailand, total 93 facilities, was created as database in 2016 via Microsoft Access 2010. The data input was compiled from Office of Atoms for Peace (OAP) licensing information of nuclear materials. The nuclear material query template, both Thai and English, was also setup to survey for more...
Mr
SAMSON STANLEY MASPALMA
(Nigerian Geological Survey Agency,Abuja,No 31 Shettima Ali Munguno Crescent Utako,P.M.B,616 Garki Abuja)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 8. Uranium from unconventional resources
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
Uranium occurs in Nigeria as conventional and unconventional resource in both Precambrian Basement and Cretaceous Sedimentary rocks. The history of exploration for uranium resources Nigeria started in North-Eastern Nigeria, by three major government Organizations. The Geological Survey of Nigeria (Now Nigerian Geological Survey Agency) in 1973, Nigerian Mining Corporation and...
Mr
Allaoua KHALDI
(Nuclear Research Center of Draria - Algiers - Algeria.), Mr
Sid Ahmed MOKHTAR
(Nuclear Research Center of Draria - Algiers - Algeria.)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 5. Economic evaluations of uranium projects
POSTER
I. INTRODUCTION.
The national mining sector is undergoing deep changes and fast evolution towards market economy. In this context, and in order to ensure the adequate and rigorous management of uranium resources discovered and evaluated in the Hoggar (southern Algeria), with a view to their development and integration into national economy in its current transition phase, a re-evaluation...
Mr
ROLANDO REYES
(PHILIPPINE NUCLEAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 9. Thorium and associated resources — international and national initiatives
POSTER
The exploration for thorium in the Philippines has always been regarded as secondary to uranium and then tied up with the exploration of rare earth elements. With 70% of the country having been covered by reconnaissance geochemical surveys, the potential areas for thorium are the Ombo and Erawan coastal areas containing radioactive heavy minerals situated in north-western Palawan Island....
Mr
Botvinnik Palattao
(Philippine Nuclear Research Institute)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 8. Uranium from unconventional resources
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
Phosphates are the raw material for the production of phosphatic fertilizers. However, these minerals also contain naturally occurring radionuclides such as uranium, thorium and rare earth elements (REE), which ends up as heavy metal contaminants in fertilizers [1-3]. Philippines, being an agricultural country, has 9% of its the GDP and 27% of employment coming from agriculture...
Ms
Talia Berg
(Hytec Alto Americas)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 4. Advances in exploration
POSTER
DESCRIPTION
In Argentina, mineral ores are abundant but few studies of the chemical analysis of native vegetation growing in such areas have been reported. Uranium related activities begun in the 1950s. The Laguna Sirven project, located in Santa Cruz, Argentina has been identified by remote sensing to contain potential deposits of uranium.
A study in Nov. 2014 resulted in the collection...
Mr
Cheikh Amadou Bamba Dath
(Univesity Cheikh Anta Diop)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 1. Nuclear power and associated modern energy markets
POSTER
Abstract
Many countries, in paticular in african region will still facing energy needs and gaps. They mostly use fuel power plant,and will be obliged to proceed to energy mix approaches in regard to fulfil end users needs. So Small and Medium Modular Nuclear Reactors(SMRs) technologies, using small quantitites of uranium fuel, will be a serious option for many least developped countries...
Dr
Dussadee Rattanaphra
(Thailand Institute of Nuclear Technology)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 8. Uranium from unconventional resources
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
In Phuket and Phang-nga region of Thailand, monazite ore has been found in association with tin and beach sands deposits. The Thailand Institute of Nuclear Technology has performed the separation and purification of rare earth elements for industrial application. The principal process can be summarized as follows: in the first step, the monazite ore (325 mesh) was digested with...
Ms
Mariya Kopbayeva
(Institute of High Technologies)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 7. Uranium production by the in situ leaching (ISL) process
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
Ensuring the effectiveness of the processes of natural uranium mining and processing is associated with the introduction of innovative methods and technologies that provide cost optimization and efficient use of resources, in particular, lower specific consumption rates of chemical reagents.
Underground uranium leaching involves dissolving of the metal under the action of...
Ms
Liliane Silva
(National Security Cabinet - Federative Republic of Brazil)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 10. Health, safety, environment and social responsibility
POSTER
The studied area is the uraniferous district of Lagoa Real in Brazil. The region is set in a semiarid climate context, with hydric deficit along all months of the year and high aridity index. Groundwater represents the main supply source considering that most surface water sources are temporary and only exhibit flow in rainy periods.
The main aquifer system present on the region is fractured,...
Mr
Frederik Reitsma
(International Atomic Energy Agency)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 1. Nuclear power and associated modern energy markets
POSTER
Around the world the demand for mineral commodities is growing strongly and high-grade, easily extractable resources are being depleted. Thermal processes are often the most appropriate for production from low-grade and some unconventional mineral resources; these in turn depend on the availability of large amounts of energy. These thermal mineral extraction processes are usually cleaner and...
Ms
Gülcan Top Top
(ITU Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences/Istanbul/Turkey)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 4. Advances in exploration
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
Radioactive mineralisation sites and related exploration activities threaten the living ecosystems of surrounding areas which is a current concern in many countries [1,2]. Natural and artificial factors provoke the dispersion of radioactive isotopes from the sites and increase the contamination in the impacted area [3,4]. It is observed that the isotopes may be...
223.
Effective and environmentally compliant in-situ recovery of sedimentary-hosted uranium (poster)
Dr
Horst Maerten
(Heathgate Resources Pty Ltd)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 7. Uranium production by the in situ leaching (ISL) process
POSTER
This poster is the companion to the oral paper (Contribution 219) that reviews recent advancements in
Development of in-situ recovery (ISR) projects for uranium including
dedicated exploration/delineation methods and field tests for gathering deter-mining data,
efficient lab tests and assays of core samples, including up-scaling methodolo-gy applied to (1D) column leach tests for a...
Ms
Marisa Arrondo
(Atomic Energy National Commission)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 10. Health, safety, environment and social responsibility
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
The Sierra Pintada uranium mine is located in Mendoza Province, Argentine, 38 km. west from San Rafael and 240 km. south from Mendoza city. It was in production from 1975 to 1995 when the operations were stopped owing to economic reasons. Under the open-pit extraction system, 1,600 tons of uranium ore were extracted and treated by acid leaching and ion exchange columns with a...
Mr
Grigory Mashkovtsev
(All-Russian Scientific-Research Institute of Mineral Resources)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 8. Uranium from unconventional resources
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
The bulk of the unconventional uranium resources worldwide is associated with phosphorite ores. Despite the ongoing depression in the world uranium markets, intense research is underway in various countries with an objective of developing cost-effective ways of uranium recovery from non-conventional resources. The world phosphorous pentoxide (Р2О5) per year is about 50 Mt,...
Mr
John Manrique
(Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 3. Applied geology and geometallurgy of uranium and associated metals
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
Through the CRP IAEA T11007 a geochemical and mineralogical characterization study of the uraniferous phosphate rocks of the Navay Formation, Táchira state, Venezuela. Phosphates deposit associated with sandstones in the top levels of the Navay Fm. (Upper Cretaceous) in southwest of Táchira state, Venezuela, was discovered in early 1978 by radiometric surveys, conducted by...
Samuel Boakye Dampare
(School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences, University of Ghana - Atomic, Kwabenya, Accra, Ghana)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 3. Applied geology and geometallurgy of uranium and associated metals
POSTER
Geochemical and mineralogical studies were carried out on the Late Devonian to early Carboniferous Takoradi Shale Formation (TSF) of Sekondian Group, Ghana to investigate its potential to host uranium, thorium and other trace elements. The TSF is typically composed of hard, compact, black/dark grey fissile shale/sandy shale, rich in organic matter, and its upper part is characterised by...
Dr
Kai-Xing Wang
(East China University of Technology)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 3. Applied geology and geometallurgy of uranium and associated metals
POSTER
The metasomatite-related uranium deposit hosts the second largest uranium resource repository in all deposit types. It widespread distributes in Australia, Brazil, Russian, and Ukraine, but rarely presents in China. The Na-metasomatism-related uranium deposit in the Jiling area, northwest China was selected to investigate the genesis. The petrology indicates that late-magmatic albitization was...
Ms
Kalaya Changkrueng
(Office of Atoms for Peace)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 3. Applied geology and geometallurgy of uranium and associated metals
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
Nuclear forensics laboratory was established in 2013 at Office of Atoms for Peace (OAP), Ministry of Science and Technology, Thailand [1]. One of the purposes is to collect the data of uranium and thorium resources in Thailand. Thus, we signed up Memorandum of Understand (MOU) among Department of mineral resources (DMR), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and...
Dr
Jalil Iranmanesh
(Atomic Energy Organization of Iran)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 3. Applied geology and geometallurgy of uranium and associated metals
POSTER
Khoshumi area is located in the Yazd province. It's part of the central Iran zone. The oldest rocks in this area are gneiss, micaschist and amphibolite. Based on microscopic studies, radioactive mineralization is relevant to gneiss and pegmatites. The main minerals in the gneiss are felsic minerals, biotite and amphibole. Pegmatitic rocks has mainly quartz, albite and pertite.Major...
Ms
Erika Calderón
(Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 3. Applied geology and geometallurgy of uranium and associated metals
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
The following study is directed to the vanadium hydrometallurgy, a trace element distributed throughout the earth's crust with great commercial and economic importance, used in the steel industry forming alloys with titanium (for aerospace applications) and iron in order to improve its mechanical properties such as hardness, resistance to fatigue and stress [1], in addition to...
Dr
ADRIENNE HANLY
(IAEA)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 3. Applied geology and geometallurgy of uranium and associated metals
POSTER
In the last decade there have been a multitude of new methodologies and techniques which have been developed in the mineral sector but these have, for the most part, not been applied to uranium and thorium resources. The main objective of this coordinated research project is to undertake geochemical and mineralogical studies of mineralised samples and apply this to understanding the genesis of...
Dr
Gholamhassan Haddadi
(Paramedical School, Shiraz University of Medical Sdiences), Mr
Mohammadbagher Haddadi
(Avesina Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 10. Health, safety, environment and social responsibility
POSTER
Indoor radon gas (222Rn) has been recognized as one of the causes of lung cancer. Considering the risk, the measurement of its indoor concentration is therefore considered necessary. The Gachin region is located in the vicinity of the city of Bandar Abbas, Islamic Republic of Iran, and is an interesting area owing to traces of naturally occurring uranium. This study was conducted to...
Prof.
Mikhail Noskov
(Seversk Technological Institute of NRNU MEPHI)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 7. Uranium production by the in situ leaching (ISL) process
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
In recent decades, there has been an intensive expansion of the information technology application in mining. From the tool of geometrical modeling of deposits and calculation of reserves they have turned into a tool of mining optimization and enterprise management. This is due to the multidimensionality and multivariance of the mining tasks, the need to make the right...
Dr
Alfatih Osman
(Sudan Atomic Energy Commission (SAEC), Al-Gamaa Str.2, 11111 Khartoum, Sudan)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 10. Health, safety, environment and social responsibility
POSTER
Sudan Atomic Energy Commission (SAEC) has an ongoing national programme for monitoring radioactivity in Sudanese environment to establish a baseline data as a useful reference for radiation protection in Sudan. Nuba mountains, south-west of Sudan has been detected as a region with the highest radioactivity from natural background. This elevated natural radiation is attributed to the high...
Mr
Juan Alvarez
(CNEA), Mr
LUIS LOPEZ
(CNEA (Argentina))
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 3. Applied geology and geometallurgy of uranium and associated metals
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
At present, the National Atomic Energy Commission of Argentina (CNEA), in cooperation with the National University of Cordoba (UNC), is carrying out the project “Geochemical and Mineralogical Characterization of Uranium and Thorium Deposits” in the framework of the IAEA Coordinated Research Project (CRP), which is "Geochemical and Mineralogical Characterization of Uranium and...
Prof.
Manny Mathuthu
(North West University)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
POSTER
During the dissolution process of the irradiated uranium target plates, the uranium and some fission products are precipitated as mixed hydrated oxides to form the residue. The same residue is commercially valuable, as a feed stock for recovering and purifying uranium from the other fission products and trans-uranium elements. PUREX (Plutonium Uranium Redox Extraction) is a worldwide known...
Mr
Luis López
(CNEA, Argentina)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 8. Uranium from unconventional resources
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
Systematic prospecting studies of phosphates in sedimentary basins were carried out during the 1970s by the Argentine Geological Mining Survey (SEGEMAR). This program delineated eighteen areas in several marine basins with phosphate potential, occupying a total area of about 640,000 km2 [1]. In the mid-80s, a research group of the Department of Geology of the University of...
Prof.
Ulmas Mirsaidov
(Nuclear and Radiation Safety Agency)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 11. Tailings and waste management
POSTER
Total amount of wastes in tailings of former uranium industry in Republic of Tajikistan is approximately 55 million tons. Summary activity of wastes according to different assessments is from 6.5 till 7.7 thousands Curie. Dump fields basically are not arranged, their amount and area are not exactly determined. Practically all tailings and dump fields are subject to erosion processes and...
Prof.
Fernando P. Carvalho
(Instituto Superior Técnico/Laboratório de Protecção e Segurança Radiológica,)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 11. Tailings and waste management
POSTER
A former radium and uranium producing mine at Forte Velho, Guarda, Portugal, was in activity during the 40s-60s last century. After mine closure, waste piles remained uncovered for decades, until a radiological assessment of the site attracted attention to elevated ambient radiation doses. An aerial radiation dose rate survey was carried out using a detector mounted on a drone and also at...
Dr
Katarzyna Kiegiel
(Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 8. Uranium from unconventional resources
POSTER
In the last years the interest of uranium recovery from secondary sources is growing. In Poland, the advanced studying concerning the possibility of uranium obtaining form domestic resources and also secondary resources such as phosphates rocks and industrial wastes: flotation tailings from copper industry and phosphogypsum, is performed .
There are two main reasons for these kind of...
Mr
Sheng Dai
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 8. Uranium from unconventional resources
POSTER
In order to maintain a sustainable reserve of nuclear fuels for the nuclear power industry, tremendous research efforts have been devoted to the development of advanced adsorbent materials for extracting uranium from seawater. Uranium exists uniformly in the world’s oceans in the form of a tricarbonate complex at a concentration of 3.3 μg L−1. Adsorbents which have been developed include...
Ms
Talia Berg
(Hytec Alto Americas)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 4. Advances in exploration
POSTER
1. Introduction
The Laguna Sirven uranium-vanadium deposit belongs to the surficial geological type. The presence of uranium minerals, mainly carnotite, has been detected between 0.5 to 3 m depths, within the calcrete level which serves as cement to a polimictic matrix.
Uranium target areas were identified by means of the processing and interpretation of multispectral satellite...
Dr
Thi Kim Dung Nguyen
(ITRRE, VINATOM)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 10. Health, safety, environment and social responsibility
POSTER
The removal of uranium and thorium from unconventional mining ores such as graphite, phosphate, or beach-sands have been carried out for decades. During processing the ore for getting the main products, the mining tailing contains considerable amounts of radioactive elements such as uranium and thorium, which would be accumulated at some storage (in beach sand exploitation) or just released at...
Eshetu Tilahun Zege
(Ethiopia Radiation Protection Authority)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 10. Health, safety, environment and social responsibility
POSTER
Tantalum mining is a big source of radioactive waste in Ethiopia with U-238, Th-232 and K-40 average concentration in the solid waste of 110, 15 and 0.6 kBq/kg respectively. It is clear that nations cannot reduce pollution from waste by reducing the nation’s growth. This, economic growth should be developed in a sustainable way. The generation of radioactive waste due to tantalum mining in the...
Dr
Santosh Kumar Satpati
(Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 10. Health, safety, environment and social responsibility
POSTER
Uranium production plant of India has been assigned to produce uranium metal for different important requirements of nation. In the plant, di-uranates / other oxides are processed through several unit operations to produce uranium metal where three process effluents are generated in tonnage quantity. Among the three effluents, two are nitrate bearing radioactive wastes [Effluents (N)] and...
Prof.
Yuqing Niu
(Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Engineering and Metallurgy, CNNC)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 8. Uranium from unconventional resources
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
Uranium is one of the primary fuel sources for nuclear power generation, making it an element with considerable technological importance. The available energy of 1 kg uranium is equivalent to that of 2050 tons coal. Along with environmental concerns will undoubtedly increase, nuclear energy is prior to be chosen for development because of its cleanliness and high-efficiency....
Mr
Ondrej Šálek
(Charles University)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 4. Advances in exploration
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
Localization of size-limited gamma-ray objects plays a fundamental role in uranium prospecting and environmental studies. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) mini-airborne measurements have been applied for many environmental issues, including radiation protection and nuclear accident monitoring [1-6]. The instrument reported by Sanada and Tori [5] was based on LaBr3:Ce scintillator,...
Ms
Aisha Karpaeva
(Subsoil Use Licensing Department of the State Committee of Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use of the Kyrgyz Republic)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 10. Health, safety, environment and social responsibility
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
Mining practices began as early as the 19th century in the Kyrgyz Republic. In 1890, coal mining started in Naryn, followed by the Kok-Zhangak mine in 1896 and the Kyzyl-Kiya Suluktinskoye mines in 1898 [1]. The Kyrgyz Republic greatly contributed to the mining industry of the Soviet Union. In the history of the development of the atomic industry and energy of the USSR (Union...
Mr
LUIS LOPEZ
(CNEA (Argentina))
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 9. Thorium and associated resources — international and national initiatives
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
This case study looks explicitly into how integrated thorium and associated rare earth elements (REE) projects could contribute to thedevelopment of the minerals sector in Argentina[1-2].
Thorium could be used as fuel for low-carbon nuclear power generation, while REE is widely accepted as a critical material required for renewable energy technologies, among other...
Mrs
Andra-Rada Iurian
(IAEA)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 10. Health, safety, environment and social responsibility
POSTER
Uranium is a naturally-occurring element that is present at low concentrations in all environmental media, but elevated concentrations of uranium can be found in some minerals e.g. uranium-rich ores. Assessments of the impact of uranium on humans and other biota are a specific challenge because of the combination of different types of hazards and potential exposures.
The IAEA is preparing an...
Prof.
Ulmas Mirsaidov
(Nuclear and Radiation Safety Agency)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 11. Tailings and waste management
POSTER
During the second half of 20th century, Tajikistan was one of the uranium raw material suppliers in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (former USSR). More than 20% of produced uranium in the former USSR was delivered from Tajikistan. Altogether, 10 uranium mining tailing dumps covering 170 hectares and containing more than 55 million t of waste were accumulated, with an activity of...
Mr
Widi Laksmono
(Bapeten)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 12. Uranium newcomers
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
Mineral and coal mining in Indonesia regulated by Act No. 4 Year 2009 [1]. In the Act, minerals divided into four category which are: rock, metal, non metal, and radioactive minerals. Implementation of the Act regulated in the derivative Government Regulations from Act No. 4 Year 2009 that cope the arrangement of region, business license, and inspection activities. However,...
Mr
BRUNDABAN MISHRA
(GOVERNMENT OF INDIA DEPARTEMNT OF ATOMIC ENERGY ATOMIC MINERALS DIRECTORATE FOR EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 4. Advances in exploration
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic North Delhi Fold Belt (NDFB) [1&2] of the Aravalli craton trending NE-SW extends from Delhi in the north to Ajmer in the south in parts of Rajasthan and Haryana states. The NDFB is characterised by presence of synkinematically emplaced granites yielding 1.73 - 1.70 Ga age (combined zircon U-Pb ages and Lu-Hf isotope data) [3-5]. This belt comprises three...
Mr
Ebenezer Kimaro
(Ministry of Education, Science and Technology)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 12. Uranium newcomers
POSTER
1. INTRODUCTION
Tanzania is heading for a new dimension in large scale uranium mining [1]. Significant uranium deposits have been identified in various parts of the country [2, 3]. More than 25 companies are conducting exploration of the uranium in different deposits in the country. These explorations are based on the already radiometric surveys conducted in the 1970’s, which pointed to...
Dr
Kristine Thrane
(Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 3. Applied geology and geometallurgy of uranium and associated metals
POSTER
The uranium potential in Greenland is considered relatively high with several known uranium occurrences.
In 2016, a workshop on the ‘Assessment of the uranium potential in Greenland’ was held. Three uranium deposit types were chosen for the assessment: intrusive, sandstone hosted and unconformity-related.
The main conclusion of the workshop was that the intrusive and unconformity-related...
Mr
Raul Villegas
(Brazilian Nuclear Energy Comission)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 8. Uranium from unconventional resources
POSTER
The generation of acid mine drainage on mining areas, an effluent generated due to the presence of a sulphide minerals (usually pyrite, FeS2) in contact with oxygen and water, is a huge environmental problem. The Osamu Utsumi Mine, the first uranium mine in Brazil, located in Caldas, Minas Gerais, which had its operations ceased in 1995, presents this environmental issue. The acid solution is...
Ms
HOIAM SAYED
(SUDAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 12. Uranium newcomers
POSTER
The role of mining sector in Sudan economic support is approximately 4% . At present, the only resources mined in Sudan are: gold, chromium ore, salt and building materials are mainly cement raw materials. we want to ensure future availability and add more minerals to the exploration mineral list that plays important roles in the economy, the actions need to be taken. More efficient and...
Mr
Vojtech Vokál
(DIAMO, s. e., Department of International Cooperation)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 10. Health, safety, environment and social responsibility
POSTER
INTRODUCTION
The World Nuclear University - School of Uranium Production (WNU SUP) international training centre was founded in 2006 and is operated by the DIAMO State Enterprise under the auspices of the World Nuclear University in London and in collaboration with OECD/NEA and IAEA. Making use of knowledge and equipment of the DIAMO State Enterprise and the connections it has with...
Mr
Sergio Dieguez
(National Commission of Atomic Energy)
6/27/18, 5:00 PM
Track 11. Tailings and waste management
POSTER
The Sierra Pintada uranium mine was in production between 1975 and 1995 when the operations were stopped for economic reasons. In 2004, a project was presented to the provincial authorities proposing the recommencement of production and the concomitant fulfilment of environmental liabilities. The response of the authorities was that before the recommencement of productive activities, the...
