Uranium mining is the process of retrieving uranium from deposits for use in nuclear reactors to generate electricity. Uranium is also used for the important task of producing medical isotopes.In South Africa, where the ciuntrt remains energy scarce, disvcsuiions around uranium are kocated within the discusiions on whether the country can afford large-scale nuclear energy sources
Uranium was discovered in 1789′ by a German scientist, Martin Klaproth. He found that by dissolving pitchblende in aqua regia and then adding an alkali to the cold solution, a yellow oxide was obtained .. This .was the oxide of a hitherto unidentified element which he named , uranium’ ~for the planet Uranus which had been discovered by William Herschel eight years earlier. It was not until about
