Redesigning the uranium resource pathway : application of the United Nations Framework Classification for Resources for planning and implementing sustainable uranium projects

This report shows how uranium resources could create a platform for innovative engagement with the integrated challenge of natural resource management and climate action. The United Nations Framework Classification for Resources (UNFC), the comprehensive resource management scheme, provides the necessary tools and conditions for the redesign of the uranium resource pathway. This report argues that the conventional model of uranium as a mineral commodity needs to give way to a new model of uranium as a “critical energy material” for meeting the global sustainability objectives on energy and climate action.
1. Background -- 2. Current state -- 3. Scoping uranium 4.0 - the prospect of infinite sustainablilty -- 4. The changing nuclear energy landscape -- 5. Redesigning the uranium resource pathway - push to pull ? 6. UNFC and sustainable energy management -- Conclusions.

x, 72 p. : graphs, tables

Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-72).
Available online (viewed 26 Nov. 2019).

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