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The first in-situ leach field test programme carried out by Denison on Tthe Heldeth Túé uranium deposit at Waterbury Lake achieved its planned objectives and has confirmed expectations that the deposit can be amenable to mining using in-situ techniques.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 08 November 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Inaugural-study-completed-for-potential-Canadian-I
Rosatom specialists have completed work to rehabilitate legacy uranium tailing sites as part of a project to rehabilitate the Taboshar industrial site near the city of Istiklol in the Sughd region of Tajikistan. Russia has fully implemented measures to reclaim the dump of the low-grade uranium ore factory and four tailings dumps almost five months ahead of schedule.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 07 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrehabilitation-of-uranium-tailing-site-completed-ahead-of-schedule-11199444
Rosatom says that it has completed the work to reclaim the low-grade uranium ore factory and tailings dumps at Taboshar, near the city of Istiklol in the Sughd region of Tajikistan. The company also said Russia and Tajikistan are considering wider cooperation in the nuclear sector.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 05 October 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Clean-up-of-Tajik-uranium-legacy-site-completed-ah
Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB) says it has completed the first stage of demolition of buildings at the Unit for Decommissioning of Caldas (UDC) in southern Minas Gerais, which is currently undertaking clean-up of a former uranium mine. Altogether 12 buildings were demolished at the industrial plant comprising 1,900 square metres of disused structures. The cooling tower was the last structure demolished in early September. According to INB, the area where the buildings were located will be restructured using local soil.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 27 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsinb-completes-first-stage-of-decommissioning-in-caldas-11174058
Remediation works at Mailuu-Suu - the largest uranium legacy site in Kyrgyzstan - are set to begin following the allocation of a grant of EUR23 million (USD25 million) from the Environmental Remediation Account for Central Asia (ERA), managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 20 May 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Remediation-of-Kyrgyz-uranium-legacy-site-to-start
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide Uzbekistan with a grant of €7 million ($6.95m) to support work on the reclamation of uranium legacy sites at Charkesar and Yangiabad, the press service of State Committee of Uzbekistan on Ecology and Environmental Protection (SCUEEP) and EBRD have reported. The agreement for the grant project was signed on 1 September in London by SCUEEP Chairman Narzullo Oblomuradov and Balthazar Lindauer, Director of the EBRD Nuclear Safety Department.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 07 September 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuzbekistan-receives-ebrd-grant-to-remediate-legacy-uranium-sites-9980584
The Central Design and Technological Institute (JSC TsPTI - part of Rosatom fuel company TVEL) on 18 May won the tender for the development of working documentation and performance of work at the Taboshar site of the Republic of Tajikistan as part of the implementation of the Interstate Target Programme "Reclamation of the territories of states affected by uranium mining industries". This relates to uranium legacy sites left by Soviet-era uranium production in Central Asia.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 20 May 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrehabilitation-of-tajikistans-uranium-tailing-dumps-to-begin-9712760
"The US uranium mining industry has the personnel and yellowcake processing plants on standby, and is ready to expand into new areas with discoveries that will provide hundreds of years of available uranium resources from a variety of secure sources," says Michael D. Campbell, chairman of the Uranium (Nuclear & REE) Committee of the Energy Minerals Division of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). "So let the drilling and processing begin."
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 25 December 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-uranium-miners-ready-to-support-nuclear-power,