Uranium Ore Deposits as Analogs for a Nuclear Waste Repository

2 Uranium Ore Deposits as Analogs for a Nuclear Waste Repository 

Since the nuclear accidents at the Three Mile Island power plant in the U.S. in 1979, and the near meltdown at Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986 (cf. Stone 1996 Bradley et al. 1996), the value of uranium 

The Pena Blanca deposit in northern Mexico occurs in unsaturated and oxidized rhyolitic tuffs, in a geologic and climatic setting similar to that of the proposed U.S. repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Much of the original UO2 ore has been oxidized and altered, sometimes first to form U(VI) oxide hydrates such as schoepite, and later to precipitate as more stable and abundant U(VI) silicate 

Actinides and Their Daughter and Fission Products Chap, 13 

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