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Uranium Processing and Properties

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Due to typically low concentrations of uranium, chemical complexity, and the varying nature of many uranium ores, the economic recovery of uranium often poses difficulty for the extractive industry. Physical concentration techniques (flotation, gravitational, electromagnetic, etc.) have been met with only limited success for uranium. The methods used for the recovery of uranium have been designed to economically treat large ore volumes. Uranium is a very electropositive metal; thus most direct pyrochemical methods are not applicable and processes often involve modern aqueous extractive metallurgy techniques. In this section the more important features of the extractive processes of uranium will be illustrated with emphasis on the chemical principles involved.

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Mishra, B., Gubel, N.R., Bhola, R. (2013). Uranium Processing. In: Morrell, J., Jackson, M. (eds) Uranium Processing and Properties. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7591-0_5

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