| The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) is contemplating outsourcing uranium exploration and mining under the ambit of Atomic Energy Act, Anil Kakodkar, chairman of atomic energy commission and DAE secretary said.
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| "Opening up uranium mines for private parties is the policy decision of the government, but we are exploring the possibility of exploration of uranium in-house as well as through outsourcing mode," he said.
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| "Data interpretation and data collection could be part of the activities that DAE is contemplating to outsource," he said.
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| "The Indo-US nuclear ties will open up avenues for the uranium industry and would open access to international uranium market for India. This would also enable the best utilisation of India's uranium resources and would add value to the available resources," he said.
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| The nuclear-energy programme of India was based on the fact that uranium resources in the country were modest as compared to others in the world, Kakodkar said.
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| He was speaking at a international technical meeting on 'Aerial and ground geophysical techniques for uranium exploration and advanced mining and milling methods and equipment' under the aegis of International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, in the uranium township of Jadugora near Jamshedpur recently.
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| Kakodkar said new emerging technologies particularly geophysics would help in the economical and best use of the available uranium resources.
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| Chaitanyamoy Ganguly, section head of the nuclear fuel cycle and materials section, said around 16 per cent of the electricity in the world came from nuclear power. India and china is the largest market for nuclear power.
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| There was a wide gap between the demand and supply of uranium in the world; he said. Secondary supplies, which came from the inventories of the past, would be depleted within 15 years from now.
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| Ganguly stressed the need to increase the primary production of uranium to bridge the wide demand-supply gap.
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| Hosted by Uranium Corporation of India (UCIL) at Jadugora, about 60 high-level delegates that included 20 eminent scientists from 12 different countries including Canada, Australia, France, China, Egypt, Turkey, Russia and Argentina and 40 Indian scientists and engineers participated in the technical sessions. |
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