Course Description
Because in-situ recovery dissolves uranium within a live aquifer, the environmental case for ISR rests entirely on containment during operations and restoration of groundwater afterwards. Regulators, communities and financiers scrutinise this more closely than any other aspect of uranium mining — and getting it wrong ends projects.
This course develops the technical and regulatory understanding required to manage groundwater in ISR operations. Participants learn excursion detection and control, restoration methods and targets, monitoring programme design, waste and by-product management, and the closure and rehabilitation process — the areas where uranium operations face their greatest environmental and regulatory exposure.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the environmental basis of ISR operations
- Design and operate groundwater monitoring programmes
- Detect, report and control excursions
- Understand groundwater restoration methods
- Set and demonstrate restoration targets
- Manage ISR wastes and by-products
- Apply radiation and environmental protection at ISR sites
- Plan closure and site rehabilitation
How the course is delivered
The course combines hydrogeology and environmental management with the regulatory realities of uranium operations. Participants work through monitoring design, excursion response and restoration planning using realistic ISR scenarios.
The programme emphasises the containment-and-restoration case on which the environmental and social licence of ISR uranium mining depends.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Environmental and HSE professionals in uranium operations
- Hydrogeologists and groundwater specialists
- Mine closure and rehabilitation planners
- Regulatory and compliance staff
- Anyone responsible for ISR environmental performance
Daily programme
- The environmental case for ISR
- Aquifer systems and baseline characterisation
- Regulatory framework
- Stakeholder and community expectations
- Monitoring well networks
- Monitoring programme design
- Excursion detection and criteria
- Excursion response and control
- Restoration methods and technologies
- Setting restoration targets
- Demonstrating restoration
- Long-term stability
- ISR wastes and by-products
- Radiation protection at ISR sites
- Closure and rehabilitation planning
- Case studies and workshop
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
