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Current practices are regulated internationally by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Practices have changed as well. It's most economical to choose sites where uranium mining can be performed in-situ — a method where a solution is pumped through an ore formation and the uranium is recovered from solution. It's similar to how salt mines work. it doesn't produce tailings or disturb the surface.

The US and Canada also had tailings from before good regulation, and the practices for dealing with them involve a lot of testing and sorting prior to developing a long term management and remediation plan.

In some cases, the non-reactive rock is available for construction. There's a lot of rock that's just normal rock. Not everything at a uranium mine has uranium or anything toxic.

Reactive rock is isolated and there's a few ways it can be sealed underground — one is to use old stable boreholes and seal it a mile underground in an impermeable backfill like bentonite clay. this also makes the low-grade tailings retrievable for developing techniques like phytomining.

Anyways I like nuclear and I want to see that tech mature.
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