Forty Years of Uranium Resources, Production and Demand in Perspective
The Red Book Retrospective
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Environmental aspects of uranium mining and processing
Nuclear Energy Agency
There are two different aspects of the environmental impact of the nuclear fuel cycle. As is noted in the 1989 Red Book, nuclear power offers an alternative to increasing emission of greenhouse gases. As part of the nuclear fuel cycle, uranium mining and processing contributes to the benefits of nuclear power. There is, however, the other environmental aspect of uranium production that is more on the public’s mind, namely the physical impact of mining and disposal of the waste products from processing uranium ore.
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