The U.S. relies on foreign uranium, enrichment services to fuel its nuclear...
Owners and operators of U.S. commercial nuclear power reactors buy uranium in various forms as well as enrichment services from other countries. U.S. nuclear plants purchased 58 million pounds of...
View ArticleCancer, nuclear bombs and dirty tricks via The Ecologist
Following a campaign of dirty tricks a decisive case in Britain’s nuclear test veterans fight for justice will reach the High Court in June 2014, writes Chris Busby. The case will also put on trial the...
View ArticleThe uranium processing fiasco via the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
Peter Stockton, Lydia Dennett The Energy Department and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are up to their old tricks again, convincing Congress and taxpayers alike to spend billions...
View ArticleNuclear Waste Dump: Who Is Responsible? via KSDK
In the 1940s, Mallinckrodt Chemical Works in downtown St. Louis purified thousands of tons of uranium to make the first atomic bombs. But the process also generated enormous amounts of radioactive...
View ArticleAxpo Board Decides To Halt Russian Uranium For Beznau via NucNet
31 Jan (NucNet): The board of directors of the Swiss company Axpo Holding AG, owner of the two-unit Beznau nuclear station has decided to discontinue uranium deliveries for the production of fuel...
View ArticleCanadian Regulators OK Restart at Port Hope Uranium Conversion Plant via...
[...] On Jan. 28, a hydrogen recirculation valve for a cell room responded in an unexpected fashion during an update to safety-related software at Cameco’s Port Hope facility. Shutting the plant down...
View ArticleGoldman Prizewinner Gets 21 Years for Resistance to Genocide via Dissident Voice
Foreign mining, state corruption, and genocide in Mongolia By Keith Harmon Snow Packed with distortions and outright lies, Mongolia’s privatized former state media called them the ‘enemies of...
View ArticleUranium suppliers forced to cut production due to lack of demand via...
Uranium prices are being dramatically affected by the shutdown of nuclear reactors in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster as supply overwhelms demand. [...] The unexpected drought has...
View ArticleNuclear plant near Chennai all set for milestone via The Hindu
Chennai, July 1: Far removed from any protest-din, a nuclear power plant 40 km south of Chennai, is all set to achieving a milestone – loading of liquid sodium. The operators of the nuclear power...
View ArticleComment: Abbott and Abe should be talking about Fukushima via SBS
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be courted in Canberra this week. In chats with Tony Abbott both PM’s will no doubt be happy to discuss trade and troops. What is less likely to make the cut –...
View ArticleFormer Japanese PM Naoto Kan urges Australia to wean world off uranium, focus...
Japan’s prime minister during the Fukushima disaster says Australia should be trying to wean other countries away from nuclear power, not increase exports of uranium. Naoto Kan, who was prime minister...
View ArticleIndia and Australia seal nuclear deal, Abbott meets Modi via The Times of India
[...] Abbott said India and Australia were bound by “strongly convergent” trade and strategic interests on the last day of his visit, which culminated with the deal to supply uranium to the...
View ArticleIndia registers record production of nuclear fuel via The Economic Times
NEW DELHI: In a major milestone for the nuclear industry, India has registered a record production of over 1,252 MT of uranium bundles, manufacturing close to double the annual fuel requirement of...
View ArticleCanada, India in advanced talks on nuclear fuel supply: Report via The...
TORONTO: Canada’s biggest uranium producer Cameco is in advanced talks with India on a deal to supply it fuel for nuclear power plants and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit next week is likely to...
View Article‘Fukushima Lessons: Any Notion That Nuclear Power Is Clean Is Obsolete’ via RTs
The world must phase out nuclear power because it is absolutely not clean from the mining processing of uranium to the generation of high-level radioactive waste, Kevin Kamps for the radioactive waste...
View ArticleVirginia Loves Nuclear But Hates Uranium. Why? via Energy Collective
Virginia may be the only state in the U.S. with a law creating a public-private partnership structure whose mission is to strengthen and promote its nuclear energy and technology industries. There are...
View ArticleBREAKING [1/11]: Uranium concentrate spill shuts down Highway 4 north of SC...
RCMP say the vehicle involved in a single-vehicle rollover 10 km north of Swift Current on Highway 4 was a tractor trailer hauling uranium concentrate. Rural RCMP responded to the call just after...
View ArticleRadiation Alert: L.A. Gas Well Spewing LETHAL LEVELS Of Breathable Nuclear...
n a breaking development that has been completely ignored by mainstream news sources, the leaking natural gas well near Los Angeles, California is now reportedly spewing lethal levels of radioactive...
View ArticleUranium contamination: ‘Radiation has been killing Adamawa villagers for...
Babies born deformed in Michika areas […] The villages include Garta, Futudou, Himike, Sina-Kwande Nkala and Ghumthi, all in Michika area. Zira, a geologist from one of the affected villages, drew the...
View ArticlePilanguru people to fight on as uranium mine gets environmental approval via...
Traditional owners say the Indigenous community has not been adequately consulted about Vimy Resources’ planned Mulga Rock open-pit mine Traditional owners have vowed to fight a proposed uranium mine...
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