[ RadSafe ] Iraqi Uranium

[Jaro]

Actually, there's a nice short blurb on their web site -- including the part about conversion to UO2 (non-enriched) for use in CANDU reactors....

 Jaro
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http://www.cameco.com/operations/refining_conversion/blind_river/
The Blind River refinery processes uranium concentrates from Cameco's mining operations, as well as from other Canadian and foreign producers.

- world's largest commercial uranium refinery 
- includes a uranium trioxide (UO3) processing plant, water treatment plant, power plant, nitric acid recovery system and analytical lab services 
- refinery produces UO3, a high-purity intermediate product, shipped to Cameco's Port Hope conversion facility for further processing 
- licensed production capacity of 18,000 tonnes of uranium per year 
- receives drums of uranium ore concentrates from mines around the world including in Canada, Australia and the United States 
- achieved International Standards Organization (ISO) 14001 certification for environmental management systems in 2002 
- shipping UO3 to Springfields, UK for toll conversion to UF6 - utilizing unused production capacity 
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Cameco transports the UO3 to Port Hope where it is converted to uranium dioxide (UO2) or uranium hexafluoride (UF6). The UO3 is transported in specially designed tote bins, which carry 9.5 tonnes of product each.


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-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl]On
Behalf Of Dan W McCarn
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 4:19 PM
To: 'Radsafe (E-mail)'
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Iraqi Uranium


Hi:

That's where Cameco processes the yellowcake into purified UO3 at Blind River and converted to UF6 at Port Hope.  Another example of media fuzziness in reporting.

Dan ii

Dan W. McCarn, Geologist; 3118 Pebble Lake Drive; Sugar Land, TX 77479; USA 
HotGreenChile at gmail.com   mccarn at unileoben.ac.at   UConcentrate at gmail.com


-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of Franta, Jaroslav
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 1:19 PM
To: Radsafe (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Iraqi Uranium

<quote>
He said the yellowcake would be used at the Blind River and Port Hope
nuclear power plants north of Toronto.
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There are no "nuclear power plants" at Blind River and Port Hope -- just Cameco refineries.

Jaro
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