China largest natural uranium production project starts construction in Ordos

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CNNC, PUBLISHED 24.07.2024

The National No.1 Uranium Demonstration project, China's largest natural uranium production project built by China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), started construction in Ordos, a city of Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on July 12.

Key indicators of the demonstration uranium project have ranked among the best in the world. Once completed, it will become a natural uranium production base with the highest standards, featuring green, economical, intelligent and efficient operation.

Additionally, the demonstration uranium project will further bolster China's capacity for natural uranium supply, improve the independent innovation capability of natural uranium industry and its international competitiveness.

At the commencement ceremony, attendees agreed that the new uranium project should strive to be a demonstration facility that represents the highest technical level of China's natural uranium sector, boasts distinctive features of the new quality productive forces, and strengthen national capacity building in the independent supplies of natural uranium.

Meanwhile, China National Uranium Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of the CNNC, unveiled its official logo of the demonstration uranium project.

Natural uranium is the material foundation for the development of China's nuclear industry and an important strategic resource and energy mineral for ensuring national security. The new uranium project will adopt an advanced mining process that employs carbon dioxide and oxygen leaching. This technique can extract uranium through a closed-loop circulation of uranium solution without lifting the ores to the surface for processing, achieving zero emissions of water, gas and solid wastes, and promoting sustainable operations with low carbon emissions.

The demonstration uranium project will also integrate advanced technologies such as automation, remote and centralized control, and big data analysis to realize intelligent operation analysis and precise mining.

Topics: Uranium, Asia, China

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