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I believe the majority of uranium comes from Kazakh mines, a former Soviet state.
by missedthecue 6y ago
I believe the majority of uranium comes from Kazakh mines, a former Soviet state.
- rurban 6y agoEast-Asian uranium (Kazhak) could have indeed provided the majority of the USSR uranium needs, with 60% stocks. But in reality the GDR (Wismut) did provide 60% of the USSR uranium and the CSSR (Jachynow, Pribram) 14%. The German output was 5x higher than the Russian output in their mines. Only after the German uranium support stopped, they ramped up Kazakhstan, which is now leading the world production by factor 4 over everyone else. Source: Urangeheimnisse, Rainer Karlsch, Zbynek Zeman, 2002 BTW: the death rate by lung cancer was about 100x higher there than in Hiroshima/Nagasaki in absolute numbers. In relative numbers Colorado/USA was the worst btw.