Subscribe to this blog's feedHere’s a thing. The prospect of a nuclear revival has turned mining companies’ attention back to uranium. The race is now on to find deposits of the stuff to help fuel the new reactors expected to dot the low-carbon landscape of the future.
The UK’s late-lamented Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) was no slouch last century in investigating possible sources of the stuff to fuel the country’s earlier
nuclear power programme. Indeed, the CEGB assessed a deposit in Malawi and did some pre-commissioning work.
Fast forward to now and an Australian company has recently taken over the deposit. What it found when it investigated the mine speaks volumes about what it was like in the days before everybody became obsessed with making the maximum profit for least possible cost.
The deposit was there but the mine was far from commissioned. However, the facility did boast a fully functioning sports and social club complete with squash court.
