Tehnika (Jan 2018)
Display data on categories of total (geological) reserves of uranium in Serbia in classes of mineral reserves from the current legislative
Abstract
Geological data on the results of the research and on the 'determined masses of reserves', i.e. the total (geological) reserves of nuclear mineral resources, uranium and thorium in Serbia, were obtained by research carried out in accordance with the legal regulations of SFR Yugoslavia and of SR Serbia. In this paper, the mentioned data are considered in the light of the newly adopted concepts, mineral resources and reserves from the Law on Mining and Geological Exploration of the Republic of Serbia (Official Gazette of RS No. 101/15). By the moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants in the SFR Yugoslavia in 1989 and the Law on the Prohibition of the Construction of Nuclear Power Plants in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1995), half-century geological exploration of nuclear mineral raw materials started in 1948/1949 was interrupted. With this interruption, the many uranium occurrences and uranium deposits remained unexplored and unrated, and the separate categories of reserves B + C1 + C2 + D1 + D2 were not balanced, which reflects the low level of their research. Data on the total uranium reserves of categories B + C1 + C2 + D1 + D2 in Serbia, in the amount of 19 651 680 t or 13 537 779 t [14], are (with appropriate correction) shown via the 'established' conversion map (as a Bridging Document) in the classes of superiors , indicated and measured mineral resources (in situ) from the current Serbian law. The position of the author of the paper is to present the existing data on the total (geological) uranium reserves in the newly introduced terms from the current law and as such approximate to the interested users.
