Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis by Chris Williams

Author:Chris Williams [Williams, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781608460922
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: 2010-08-17T05:00:00+00:00

The mining and refining of uranium is a highly pollution-and energy-intensive business in its own right. The fissile material needed in nuclear reactors, the isotope of uranium, U- 235, is only 0.7 percent of uranium ore. This means more than 99 percent of the rock that has been mined to obtain the uranium ore is left behind as highly toxic “tailings” containing over a dozen radioactive elements. One processing plant in India, at Jaduguda, processes more than 1,000 tons of ore per day to generate a mere 200 tons of uranium ore per year from an original 350,000 tons of mined rock. To make it useful in power plants, this then has to be “enriched” up to a concentration of 3-5 percent. The tailings cannot be left lying around as they will dry and spread radioactive particles via the wind into the surrounding watercourses, fields, and plants.

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