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Uranium mining is the first step in the nuclear fuel cycle to produce energy. In the nuclear fuel cycle, main steps are; Mining / Milling, Conversion, Enrichment, Nuclear Fuel Fabrication, Reactors, Reprocessing of the spent fuel and Waste Management. In the first step, there are three main methods for uranium ore extraction. These are; Open Pit Mining, Underground Mining and In-Situ leaching (ISL/Lixiviation). All forms of mining methods create health risks for people and hazard for the environment. In this study...

Decision making can be defined as a selection process of the best one among the alternatives sets in order to obtain goal, and mostly has an uncertain situation. Additionally, mostly linguistic variables (weak rock, massive ore deposit, etc.) become in question. Mine planning engineers often use of their intuition and experiences in decision making. As the fuzzy set theory was carried out since 1970, these uncertainties in question are easily evaluated in decision making process. Real world study is decision makin...