


milling balls uranium ore - Uranium Recovery | NRC.gov
On this page: What We Regulate; How We Regulate; What We Regulate. As the precursor to the nuclear fuel cycle, uranium recovery focuses on extracting (or mining) natural uranium ore from the Earth and concentrating (or milling) that ore.These recovery operations produce a product, called "yellowcake," which is then transported to a fuel …Tailings: Milling uranium ore produces tailings. Tailings are what is left over once the uranium has been removed from the ground rock and resemble fine sand. They contain long-lived radionuclides (such as …
