Address: Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL)
Jaduguda Mines, Singbum (East)
Jharkhand 832 102
Telephone: 91-657-730122
Fax: 91-657-730322
Email: uranium@satyam.net.in
Managing Director: R. Gupta
Subordinate to: Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)
Primary Function: Process uranium ore from the Jaduguda, Narwapahar, and Bhatin mines

Description and Activities:
The Uranium Processing Plant near Jaduguda is part of the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL). The plant began operations in 1968 and first milled uranium ore from the Jaduguda Mine. Its initial processing capacity was 1,000 metric tons per day (MTPD). The Uranium Processing Plant underwent significant upgrades during the late 1990s that included more sophisticated instrumentation and automation capabilities. These improvements coincided with the introduction of the UCIL's Narwapahar Mine that became operational in 1999-2000. This mine, in addition to the plant's upgrades, has increased the facility's uranium processing capacity to 2,090 MTPD.

Uranium extraction at the Uranium Processing Plant is done using the hydro-metallurgical process. This process eventually converts the uranium to yellow cake that is then sent to the Nuclear Fuels Complex (NFC) in Hyderabad. Yellow cake is then processed into uranium oxide pellets.

Key Sources: DAE (Government of India), "Annual Report 1999-2000," p. 3.8, Executive Summary available at <http://www.vigyan.org.in/annual/atomic.html>; DAE (Government of India), "Annual Report 2001-2002," Executive Summary available at <http://www.dae.gov.in/ar2002/ar2002.htm>; "Expansion of Uranium Corporation of India Limited," DAE (Government of India), <http://www.dae.gov.in/ucilex.htm>; "Turamdih Uranium Mining Project Inaugurated," DAE (Government of India), <http://www.dae.gov.in/ni/nijan03/page1.htm>; "Uranium Corporation of India Limited," DAE (Government of India), <http://www.dae.gov.in/mine.htm>; "Uranium Process Plant," Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL), <http://www.ucilindia.com/cgi-bin/ucilpg5.html>.

	Updated September 2003