Density: 18.

95 grams per cubic

centimeter
Phase at room temperature: Solid
Melting point: 2,075 F
Boiling point: 7,468 F
Number of isotopes: 16, 3 naturally
occurring
Most common isotopes:
U-234 (0.0054 % natural
abundance),
U-235 (0.7204 % natural
abundance),
U-238 (99.2742 % natural
abundance)
 • Naturally Radioactive
• Commonly used in Nuclear
Power Industry to generate
electricity

• In 1789, discovered by Martin Heinrich Klaproth

• In 1790, named after Uranus
• In 1896, Uranium found to be radioactive by
Henri Becquerel
 FACTS

1.On August 6, 1945, a 10 feet long bomb

fell over Hiroshima, Japan. First ever used
of an Atomic bomb, only 1.38% of
uranium, about 140 pound total uranium.
 FACTS

2. Uranium is sold only to countries which

are signatories of the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty ( NPT) and which allow
international inspection to verify that it is
used only for peaceful purposes.
1st stage: Gyratory or Jaw 3rd Stage: Cone Crusher&
Crusher Roller Crusher /ball mills
 Feed: 1m diameter  Feed: 65mm Diameter

 Output: 200mm  Output Diameter:

Diameter  <10mm (Acidic Ores)
 Power: 250-350 KN  .5mm (Alkaline ores)

 2nd Stage: Cone Crusher

 Feed: 200mm Diameter
 Output: 65mm Diameter
 Power: 30-40 KN
Lixiviant: Sulphuric Acid
temperature: 40°C - 60° C
Lixiviant: mixtures of sodium carbonate and
sodium bicarbonate
temperature: greater than 100°C
 is accomplished in conventional design
thickeners and disk and drum-type vacuum
filters.

 Uses flocculants to accelerate the settling and

filtering rates of clays
 Ion exchange
is an exchange of ions between two electrolytes or
between an electrolyte solution

 Solvent extraction
separate compounds based on their relative
solubilities in two different immiscible liquids

 Eulex process
combined technology which makes the processes
of ion exchange and solvent
extraction to link together.
Application of ion exchange methods is based
on the existence of anionic complexes of
uranium in dilute sulfuric acid and
sodium carbonate solutions
 Strongly basic ion exchangers (resin) :
quaternary amino groups
 Ph : 1.5-2 (sulfuric acid solution)
9-10 (alkaline solution)

 Adsorption temperature :10 to 20 ℃

Loaded: 5-20m3/h
contact time : 6 min
 1mol/L solution of chlorides, nitrates or
sulfate (acidic solution)
 1-2mol/L sodium carbonate-sodium
hydrogencabonate soluiton (alkaline solution)

Flowrate:1-5m3/h,
contact time 45-60 min
 process can be operated in continuous
countercurrent flow as contrasted with either the
semi-batch operations

 Initial step: extraction

from feed solution to organic solvent phase
 Second Step: stripping
recovers the purified and concentrated uranium
product into a second aqueous phase after which
the barren organic is recycled to the extraction
step.
 Uranium is crudely separated by ion
exchange, followed by solvent reaction

Ion-exchange: to tolerate much cloudiness,

increasing the concentration of uranium
Solvent extraction: improves the purification
effect of uranium
 Solutions obtained by the above contains
uranium in the form of Sulfate or Carbonato
complex.

 Uranium is precipitated by an addition of a

strong base, filtered and dried.