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	Uranium (ITAM 5) Volume 5 in the Introduction to Australia's Minerals (ITAM) series Written and edited by Ian Clark and Barry Cook published by the Minerals Council of Australia in 1992, updated by UIC in 2000. Contents: The fission of U-235 (p 2) Uranium: What is it? Discovery (p 3) Uranium deposits: igneous, sedimentary (pp 4-6) Uranium exploration (p 6) Uses for uranium (pp 7-9) Status of nuclear power (p 7) The nuclear fuel cycle: front end (pp 10-12) Nuclear power reactor (p 12 & 15) Uranium mining (p 13) Conversion, enrichment & fuel fabrication (p 14) The nuclear fuel cycle: back end - wastes (pp 16-19) Health and safety (pp 20-21) International safeguards (p 22) Aboriginal affairs (p 23) Australian uranium mining towns (p 24) The environment (pp 25-26) The book with illustrations is available in three PDF documents: section 1 (pp 1-10) (854k PDF) section 2 (pp 11-20) (1015k PDF) section 3 (pp 21-28) (1467k PDF) Note that these require Acrobat reader and may be slow to download
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