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RE: Swedish TT etc: "New uranium mine in Australia criticized"



At 10:37 AM 3/23/99 -0600, you wrote:
>"In-situ" mining is not at all new and is done in the USA.

Quite right. There is a family of NRC Regulatory Guides (or at least there
WAS such a set) pertaining to in situ leach extraction for uranium. As I
recall, the guides related to licensing, operations, and health physics of
such projects. I don't have ready access to NRC Reg Guides, but perhaps
someone could provide some additional help with that aspect.

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Bob Flood
Dosimetry Group Leader
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(650) 926-3793
bflood@slac.stanford.edu

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