Front end of the nuclear fuel cycle
The Nuclear Fuel Cycle : Generalities and Front End of the Cycle

Uranium is the only natural element with which it is possible to maintain a chain reaction, and therefore to operate a nuclear reactor to produce energy, but also to build atomic bombs. This explains the major efforts initially made in the United States, shortly after the discovery of fission in late December 1938, to source uranium. From the end of the Second World War, a number of other countries, including France, launched prospecting campaigns on their...