Sentence examples for mining of uranium from inspiring English sources
The local mining of uranium began in 1908 and reached its peak immediately after World War II, but it has since ceased.
The mining of uranium in northwest Canada by the Dene tribes, native to the region, who had no idea that they were supporting the Manhattan project, and whose contribution to the bomb inspired their apologetic missions to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1998.
At some sites where mining of uranium and polymetallic ores took place the moss samples show also a locally specific Pb isotope signal.
A Nuclear Renaissance will perpetuate the devastating mining of uranium on indigenous lands and threaten communities near the plants.
The prospects of unleashing, through fracking, radium, a silvery-white metal, has a parallel in the mining of uranium on the Navajo Nation.
Indigenous peoples in northern Saskatchewan have expressed serious opposition to the large-scale mining of uranium, the main fuel used in reactors.
A Newsweek piece commented on the destruction of Home Tree as resembling the rampant tree-felling in Tibet, while another article compared the film's depiction of destructive corporate mining for unobtanium in the Na'vi lands with the mining and milling of uranium near the Navajo reservation in New Mexico.
Nor did Iran provide information on its mining and milling of uranium, the agency said.
The mining and milling of uranium ore is not banned by UN resolutions (which focus on uranium enrichment), but one of the ways the international community has sought to close down Iran's nuclear programme is to stop it importing yellowcake.
Those kinds of costs and risks aside, nuclear power presents its own environmental hazards, from the mining and milling of uranium to the storage and disposal of radioactive waste.
Over its complete life, including mining of the uranium, fuel enriching, fuel preparation, operations and decommissioning, nuclear power releases among the lowest of any generating technologies, including solar, wind, and hydropower.
