Sentences with phrase «about uranium»

It reminds me of Gerry Spence (trial lawyer) writing about uranium mining.

I think it was something about Uranium Hexaflouride from Hyundai ships, or something like that.

It's likely you're taking a shot in the dark on some news you've read about uranium, or about the latest medical breakthrough.

In the process, a young widow and her two children learn much about uranium but even more about the nature of the love that binds them.

In a series of separate public hearings this fall, members of Congress and New Mexico state legislators heard testimonies from the full range of people who have something to say about uranium mining — community members aggrieved by six decades of mining impacts, industry officials trumpeting new jobs from renewed uranium activity, and government regulators trying to figure out how to address both the past uranium legacy and future uranium developments.

People from around the world attended and gave testimony about Uranium issues occurring in their communities.

But Muller's latest project, hosting a documentary about uranium, took him even further afield (8 p.m. EDT July 28, PBS).

This was when the bureau, the FBI, so clearly had this information [about Uranium One].

On April 23, 2015, the New York Times wrote about the uranium issue, saying the paper had «built upon» Schweizer's information.

Not exact matches

ALAN Eggers made about $ 60 million for himself, and $ 1 billion for other shareholders in Summit Resources, when Paladin Energy bought it at the height of the 2007 uranium boom.

Soon after The Hill published a story about the deal earlier in October, Trump latched onto it, tweeting that the «Uranium deal to Russia, with Clinton help and Obama Administration knowledge, is the biggest story that Fake Media doesn't want to follow!»

As for production, the company was responsible for only about 11 percent of U.S. uranium production in 2014, according to 2015 congressional testimony by a Department of Energy contractor.

At the time, Uranium One's two licensed mining operations in Wyoming amounted to about «20 percent of the currently licensed uranium in - situ recovery production capacity in the U.S.,» according to the Nuclear Regulatory CommUranium One's two licensed mining operations in Wyoming amounted to about «20 percent of the currently licensed uranium in - situ recovery production capacity in the U.S.,» according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commuranium in - situ recovery production capacity in the U.S.,» according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Update, Nov. 1: This story has been updated to say that NRC now estimates that Uranium One's mining operations account for about 10 percent of in - situ recovery production capacity in the U.S.. That's half of what it was in 2010, because more in - situ recovery mining operators have been licensed since 2010.

It has quality assets here in Texas, quality assets in the U.S., and with the recent news coming from the Russian Parliament that they may cut off uranium and titanium exports to the U.S., it is actually going to be debating this on May 15, the stock has been up about 20 or 30 % in the last few days, in large part because of the safety that the assets provide jurisdiction wise.

Amir Adnani, President and a director of Uranium Energy Corp, talks about his company's U3O8 production and profit prospects for 2017 and beyond.

Amir Adnani, CEO, President and Director of Uranium Energy, talks about the trend of the uranium market and gives details about his low - cost producing cUranium Energy, talks about the trend of the uranium market and gives details about his low - cost producing curanium market and gives details about his low - cost producing company.

Uranium as a commodity was basically forgotten about until it marched up to a record high price above $ 130 USD / lb in 2007.

At a debate in Britain, David Lange was asked about the peace that we live in cast by the shadow of nuclear weapons, to which he quipped I can almost smell the uranium now!

«Uranium — lead (U — Pb) dating is one of the oldest [1] and most refined of the radiometric dating schemes, with a routine age range of about 1 million years to over 4.5 billion years, and with routine precisions in the 0.1 — 1 percent range.»

From the equivalence of mass and energy in relativity theory, together with theories about the fission of heavy nuclei, it was predicted that if a certain mass of uranium was brought together, an explosion would occur; surely all observers in the New Mexico desert on that day in 1943 could agree as to whether an explosion occurred.

Facebook, when not stealing your data to help the Russians tell you that Hillary Clinton is selling uranium to children in the basement of a pizza place, is a great place for the people from your high school who used to smoke things they found in ditches to scream about wisdom.

Whilst there is no confirmation about how these facilities have been used by the government, theoretically, they would enable the production of new warheads as long as there is enough base materials (e.g. uranium) available.

Exelon Corp., owner of Nine Mile Point, estimated it would cost about $ 125 million to resupply FitzPatrick with uranium fuel rods next fall, which would allow the plant to continue operating two years beyond when plant owner Entergy Corp. plans to shut it down, the administration official said.

For the first part of your question only (national security threat), from an author I don't fully agree with on Uranium and Russia (he thinks the sanctions on Russia are really about natural gas and he thinks the sanctions are foolish)- he proves that Russia is a large producer of Uranium while the US is seeing a decline in production and imports quite a bit of Uranium for nuclear energy production (sourced from the EIA).

Hydro - fracking is not just about drilling into the ground, but running hugely powerful diesel engines to create the necessary pressure to fracture the underground shale as well as fleets of heavy duty trucks criss - crossing rural and scenic roads carrying heavy equipement and toxic by - products, including uranium.

One initiative that is slow off the mark is the transformation of the underground Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, which housed about 2700 centrifuges for enriching uranium, into an international physics center.

But researchers in and outside Iran are cautiously optimistic about an intriguing spin - off of the agreement — a proposal to convert the Fordow uranium - enrichment plant into an international physics laboratory, as well as opportunities for collaborations that will arise if sanctions are eased.

«About 20 percent of the helium is coming from the moon itself, most likely as the result from the decay of radioactive thorium and uranium, also found in lunar rocks,» said Benna.

A patina of calcite coated the fragment, and the researchers used radioactive uranium in the mineral to date the bone to about 55,000 years old.

When bombarding uranium with neutrons, Hahn had made some surprising observations that went against everything known at the time about the dense cores of atoms — their nuclei.

He said he remembered them vaguely, and then I found in fact the Geiger counters stayed in the field for about a month before we realized the Germans were not going to use their uranium — of which they had over 150 tons — as essentially a pollutant, a crude terror weapon.

Even though the plants begin with fuel that has had its uranium 235 content enriched, most of that easily fissioned uranium is gone after about three years.

In particular, a relatively new form of nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the management of dangerous, long - lived radioactive waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.

Transforming those dark desires into reality would require a minimum of 50 pounds of highly enriched uranium, about 1,500 carefully machined parts, a nuclear design engineer, and more than a dozen craftsmen able and willing to put the device together.

Splitting a uranium atom converts only about 0.1 percent of its mass into energy, but mixing matter and antimatter is 100 percent efficient.

The third stream, amounting to about 92 percent of the spent thermalreactor fuel, would contain the bulk of the uranium, now in a depleted state.

In addition, only about one tenth of the mined uranium ore is converted into fuel in the enrichment process (during which the concentration of uranium 235 is increased considerably), so less than a hundredth of the ore's total energy content is used to generate power in today's plants.

After about three years of service, when technicians typically remove used fuel from one of today's reactors because of radiation - related degradation and the depletion of the uranium 235, plutonium is contributing more than half the power the plant generates.

Overall, the tanks hold every element in the periodic table, including half a ton of plutonium, various uranium isotopes and at least 44 other radionuclides — containing a total of about 176 million curies of radioactivity.

(Typical reactors use a mix that is only about 5 percent energy - rich uranium - 235; the rest is more common uranium - 238.)

* Owned and operated by Cameco Corp., the world's largest producer of uranium, the mine disgorged about 18.7 million pounds (8.5 million kilograms) of the nuclear element in 2007.

They conclude that, as at the end of 2013, there were about 1400 tonnes of highly enriched uranium and 500 tonnes of separated plutonium — together enough for more than 100,000 nuclear weapons.

Killian's office has represented about 2,500 uranium victims seeking federal compensation, including Reed Hayes.

«At face value, these results are about as good as you can get,» says Alistair Pike, a uranium dating expert at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom.

About 200 millirems of that comes from radon gas, a colorless, odorless by - product of natural uranium, found in trace amounts almost everywhere.

Nuclear fuel rods are made of hundreds of small pellets of enriched uranium placed end - to - end inside hollow tubes of zircaloy that are about a half - inch across.

When Kempthorne first proposed opening up the land to uranium mining, several concerned parties — including dozens of elected officials, public utilities and Native American tribes — complained about potential threats to surface and ground water from such activities.

Study co-author Heye Freymuth of the University of Bristol explains: «Although uranium was incorporated into the oceanic crust since the initial rise in atmospheric oxygen about 2.4 billion years ago, the ocean crust did not incorporate higher amounts of uranium - 238 as the oceans did not yet have adequate supplies of oxygen.»

A new report argues that the world has plenty of uranium but needs to make wise choices about what to do with it once its been depleted in a nuclear reactor