Talk:Cigar Lake mine

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Combined multiple articles on Cigar Lake into this one location. Turgan (talk) 22:51, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

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Personal recollection
Back in my days in the Uranium exploration business, I recall hearing that the ore at Cigar Lake was so high grade that the company had to install shielding behind the seats of the LHD trucks, so as not to over-expose the drivers to radiation! Needless to say, all miners were required to wear dosimeters at work. This was likely a convention-story, but would make a nice add if it could be reliably sourced. --Pete Tillman (talk) 06:28, 9 May 2022 (UTC)


 * @Pete Tillman: Hello, I think I may have found a citation that supports this. On this 2021 Cameco Corporation document attached below, it mentions multiple shielding methods used to separate the Uranium from the workers in some kind of transport, but it doesn't specifically mention trucks. Not sure if this works, and if it does I'm not sure exactly where it would go in the article, but I still wanted to ping you if this is correct! --Johnson524 (talk) 22:00, 12 June 2022 (UTC)


 * ^ 2021 Cameco Corporation document
 * Thanks for this. Might have a better home in a general Industrial rad-health article?
 * I was a uranium exploration geologist for quite a few years, and met a Cameco guy who used to work at Cigar Lake then or earlier. By far the highest-grade uranium mine, then or ever? Though the Shinkolobwe deposit was richer (most likely) before it began to spontaneously fission -- the (locally) famous natural reactors! SFAIK, the only known instance, and that was a LONG time ago, when there was more U-235 to get things going....


 * If you happen to be a fellow SF fan, Charlie Stross imagines a young planet with MUCH higher U-235 content in his novel "Neptune's Brood", and you can read my take here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1669257807 VERY entertaining book, if it's your sort of thing. Young Communist squids that mine the stuff, and export it with U-235-powered rockets that have a failure rate of 'only' 1-2%....


 * Sounds interesting, might have to take a look! --Johnson524 (talk) 01:30, 14 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Hus best spce-opera, in my opinion. Rang all my chimes! Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 21:49, 15 June 2022 (UTC)