How Did ISL Uranium Mining Begin?
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According to the World Nuclear Association, 21 percent of the worlds uranium production came about from ISL mining in 2004. We conducted interviews with some of the worlds top ISL experts, including the father of ISL, to help you better understand how uranium is currently mined for the worlds nuclear power plants.
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Its time to rewrite the history books. In Situ Leach Mining (ISL), or Solution Mining, was not first commercially started in Bruni, Texas in 1973 by Westinghouse, a consortium of oil companies and others. The birthplace of ISL was never South Texas, as some have claimed. It was begun in Wyoming, about 16 years before an ISL operation was started in Texas. Why there has been a whitewash over the true history of ISL is not our concern. This series is an in-depth investigation into how and why ISL mining came about, how it has been tested over a period of nearly 50 years, and why this type of uranium mining will play an important role in providing U.S. utilities with the raw fuel to power nuclear reactors for the next few decades.
In this modern era of uranium mining, extremely skilled engineers, hydrologists and geologists establish ISL mining operations. Most insiders compare an ISL operation to a water treatment plant. Its really that simple to understand. However, as with every modern industrial operat
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