Conveners
Health, safety and environment
- Vanessa Guthrie (Uranium Paper - Presenter)
- Sylvain Saint-Pierre
Mr
Sylvain Saint-Pierre
(SENES Consultants)
6/24/14, 9:00 AM
Health, safety and environment
Oral
Seeking, gaining and maintaining public support is inherent to mining and to responsible management in this sector. In particular, it holds special relevance for remote mining sites for which the buy in from the regional and local workforce and populations is a necessity all along the life span of a mining project from exploration to development, commissioning, operation, closure and...
Mr
Keith Cunningham
(Government of Saskatchewan, Ministry of the Economy)
6/24/14, 9:30 AM
Health, safety and environment
Oral
Many jurisdictions around the world require mining operations to prepare closure plans and to post a bond or other financial assurances of sufficient value to cover the cost of closure. However, not all jurisdictions address the conditions under which they would accept the return of such properties, once the operator has fulfilled their obligations and is requesting release from further...
Dr
John Mahoney
(Mahoney Geochemical Consulting LLC)
6/24/14, 10:00 AM
Health, safety and environment
Oral
A PHREEQC based geochemical model has been developed to predict impacts from the McClean Lake Mill discharges through three lakes in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada. The model is primarily a mixing calculation that uses site specific water balances and water compositions from five sources: 1) two water treatment plants, 2) waters from pit dewatering wells, 3) run-off into the lakes...
Mr
Vladimir Karamushka
(OJSC VNIPIpromtechnologii)
6/24/14, 10:30 AM
Health, safety and environment
Oral
A distinctive feature of uranium mining and milling facilities is environmental contamination with solid, liquid and gaseous radioactive waste. The waste are the largest volume in the nuclear fuel cycle and major contributors to the formation of radiation-dangerous situation for the population and the environment despite their relatively low radioactivity.In the past remediation of uranium...
Mr
Jim Hondros
(JRHC Enterprises Pty Ltd)
6/24/14, 11:30 AM
Health, safety and environment
Oral
Uranium mining projects in Australia must receive approval under both state and national laws based on a wide ranging impact assessment of the project. The process may take a number of years and involves multiple levels and parts of government and public consultation and scrutiny.
The impact assessment is broad and usually covers; environmental, social, health, public safety and economic...
Mr
Peter Waggitt
(Northern Territory Department of Mines and Energy)
6/24/14, 12:00 PM
Health, safety and environment
Oral
The Northern Territory of Australia (NT) has a long association with uranium mining extending back over 70 years. Although currently there is only one active mine, the Ranger Uranium Mine operated by Energy Resources of Australia, there is plenty of uranium-related activity with several on-going exploration operations and a number of remediated and legacy sites. The regulation of Ranger is...
Mr
Ezekiel Mohajane
(National Nuclear Regulator South Africa)
6/24/14, 12:30 PM
Health, safety and environment
Oral
In South Africa, enhanced levels of NORM are associated with many mining and industrial processes. Exploitation and mining of ores that contain NORM can result in radiation exposure to the workforce involved particularly through the underground pathway being regarded as the dominant pathway as a result of radon exposure. The regulatory processes under which non-uranium mines operates,...
Ms
Marcelle Phaneuf
(IAEA)
6/24/14, 2:30 PM
Health, safety and environment
Oral
The uranium producing countries of Canada and Australia have independently developed regulatory frameworks emphasising the importance of human health and ecological risk assessments as core tools for ensuring protection of the environment and public. The value of such an approach is presented as well as practical lessons learned through recent applications of this regulatory model.
In May...
Henry Schnell
(HA Schnell Consulting Inc)
6/24/14, 3:00 PM
Social licensing in uranium production
Oral
Abstract to follow
Mr
DENNIS AMOS MWALONGO
(Tanzania Atomic Energy Commission)
6/24/14, 3:15 PM
Health, safety and environment
Oral
Utilization of nuclear power has been escalating, hence the growing demand for Uranium for the world nuclear power worldwide and in particular Asia and Middle East. This has influenced uranium exploration, development and investment in different countries in the world. In 2007, Tanzania witnessed extensive uranium exploration investment and discovery of several sites with economically viable...
