Mining and milling ScienceDirect
The nuclear fuel cycle is a multistage industrial process revolving around the utilization of uranium to produce electricity and is depicted in Fig. frontend of the fuel cycle begins with mining uranium out of the ground, milling it into a more concentrated form (, U 3 O 8), converting it either into a useable form for enrichment for light water reactors (LWR;, UF 6) or into ...