the risk posed by nuclear plants after the devastating earthquake Nipponese, the value of the ore is low and their exploration San Juan is retracted.
Zone North. Jáchal In the department, the Las Marias, located in Pampa de Panacanse, is one of the places explored in search of uranium.
No developments in uranium exploration in the province of San Juan in so far this year. And in recent months, the earthquake disaster in Japan, which caused the nuclear accident at the plant in Fukushima, has grown into a significant reduction in the price of energy mineral. It was also the stand by the provincial-level examinations. "When we thought that uranium was to be an important commodity search and continue to grow in value, occurs in Japan. The mineral exploration of the nuclear world has declined significantly since the incident. Even in San Juan the uranium exploration work have not progressed nearly as far this year. No drilling has reached anywhere yet, "said Julio Ríos Gómez.
From the public sector, Juan Bustamante, director of San Juan Mining, commented, "I do not know if Fukushima has much to do with the issue of uranium exploration in San Juan. It is true that we have not received any further requests for search warrants and that no new developments in exploration. But This is because companies should not get financing due to the decrease in the price of coal in international market. "
Remember that the price of uranium was to fall by 9.8 percent as only between March and April 2011. While the CNEA (National Atomic Energy Commission) reported that so far only is managing the three areas which has exploration rights in the province of San Juan.
"Currently there is no relationship between cost and benefit to develop the nuclear industry. The security costs to build a nuclear plant are very high and do not correspond with the low value it has today uranium today, "said Rios. He added: "The uranium exploration has continued in the north of the province of San Juan in Jáchal and the border with La Rioja. But this year, there has been an exploration a little more detailed than last year. That is, no progress has been almost nothing, because of these international circumstances. "
Uranium is a strategic mineral in energy development of any country. The trend of increasing interest to dust off this old uranium deposits in San Juan has been advising the Ministry of Mines in San Juan since November 2006. But at first, was the international financial crisis (2008-2009) which stopped short exploration of such minerals towards the development of clean energy. Then everything seemed back to normal. But the recent nuclear disaster that occurred in Japan, after 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami, returned to affect the value mineral. So also was again retracted his exploration.
Uranium is used in nuclear power plants as fuel to generate electric power based on clean technology, ie, non-polluting. Nuclear energy is produced by the energy released during fission of the atom. However, one of the big disadvantage is that it produces waste that take a long time to lose their radioactivity. Most high-level waste produced within the fuel element in nuclear reactors as a result of nuclear fission processes. These wastes, as Argentina's national legislation, they need 300 years of isolation in a deep geological repositor (500 meters) for degradation, according to information provided by the CNEA website .
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