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    India has limited uranium reserves but larger thorium reserves, accounting for 1-2% and 25% of global reserves respectively. Uranium Corporation of India Limited and India Rare Earths Limited are the only public sector companies allowed to mine these nuclear materials. Most of India's uranium reserves are located in Andhra Pradesh, while thorium is mainly found along the east and west coasts. The Nuclear Fuel Complex in Hyderabad processes uranium and thorium ores into usable forms. Factors affecting exploitation include land acquisition problems, environmental impacts, public safety concerns, and availability of economical technology. Recently, a more cost-effective method was discovered for producing weapon-grade uranium oxides from Andhra Pradesh

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    India has limited uranium reserves but larger thorium reserves, accounting for 1-2% and 25% of global reserves respectively. Uranium Corporation of India Limited and India Rare Earths Limited are the only public sector companies allowed to mine these nuclear materials. Most of India's uranium reserves are located in Andhra Pradesh, while thorium is mainly found along the east and west coasts. The Nuclear Fuel Complex in Hyderabad processes uranium and thorium ores into usable forms. Factors affecting exploitation include land acquisition problems, environmental impacts, public safety concerns, and availability of economical technology. Recently, a more cost-effective method was discovered for producing weapon-grade uranium oxides from Andhra Pradesh

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    India has limited uranium reserves but larger thorium reserves, accounting for 1-2% and 25% of global reserves respectively. Uranium Corporation of India Limited and India Rare Earths Limited are the only public sector companies allowed to mine these nuclear materials. Most of India's uranium reserves are located in Andhra Pradesh, while thorium is mainly found along the east and west coasts. The Nuclear Fuel Complex in Hyderabad processes uranium and thorium ores into usable forms. Factors affecting exploitation include land acquisition problems, environmental impacts, public safety concerns, and availability of economical technology. Recently, a more cost-effective method was discovered for producing weapon-grade uranium oxides from Andhra Pradesh

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    19/10/2016 OneNote 

    Online

    Nuclear resources 
    07 February 2016  23:20 

     
      
      
      
     
     
    Bring out the present day position of exploitation and processing 
    of nuclear minerals in India. (200 Words) 
     
    Major nuclear minerals required for India for its civil energy as well as for
    defence purposes are Uranium and Thorium. India is having less uranium
    reserves i.e. 1­2% of global uranium reserves and more thorium reserves i.e. total
    25% of global reserves. 
     
    Presently in India only the public sector companies are allowed to mine the
    nuclear material reserves ­ they are  
    Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) for Uranium 
    India Rare earths Limited (IREL) for Thorium. 
     
    in case of uranium as of now India has got around 2.00 lac tonnes of identified
    uranium reserves mainly concentrated in Thummapalle ,AP (Around 95.00lac
    tonne), Jharkhand ,Meghalaya and Rajasthan and at other places in small
    quantities.  
     
    In respect of Thorium, mainly available in the monazite sands of East west coast
    of India. 
     
    Presently Nuclear Fuel complex (NFC), Hyderabad is developing and processing
    the uranium and thorium ore to make the usable uranium oxides.  
     
    The factors that are effecting the exploitation of nuclear material in India are: 
     
    1. Land acquisition and rehabilitation problems in new uranium and thorium
    found places for establishing the mines 
    2. Proximity to the drinking water resources 
    3. In case of coastal belts the issue of reserve forest and environmental issues 
    4. Public consensus on safety of mining 
    5. Availability of viable technology economically and technically. 
     
    Recently NFC has discovered a cost effective technology for making weapon
    grade uranium oxides from uranium reserves of AP. Hence In view of the Indian
    government thrust on nuclear energy we can expect for increase in the
    productivity of uranium through ample investment by the government financially
    and in other required areas 

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