"You mine orders of magnitude less uranium ore." I suspect this is true, but the amount of material you need to turn over to get this uranium ore is tremendous

"You mine orders of magnitude less uranium ore." I suspect this is true, but the amount of material you need to turn over to get this uranium ore is tremendous. I wouldn't be surprised to learn it is roughly equal to coal mining. There is a fairly detailed chapter in the excellent William T. Vollmann book _No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies_ where he describes in fine detail the process of mining and refining uranium - it is much more energy intensive than I imagined ...