How Much Uranium? an Account of the International Uranium Resources Evaluation Project (Iurep)

Abstract

Since August 1962, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) - from 1967 onwards in conjunction with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - has periodically published report on uranium resources and demand. It had been recognised for some time that the uranium resource estimates given in these reports did not constitute a complete appraisal of the world's uranium resources and therefore a major study, possibly the first of its kind, was undertaken by an international group of experts on uranium resources to try to define the possible extent and location of undiscovered uranium resources. This paper is an account of this project.