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Mines and Petroleum Minister Bill Marmion has again touted Western Australia's credentials as a destination for uranium mining, this time at today's opening of the Australian Uranium Conference in Perth.

He also quoted from an unnamed «industry report» that repeated the claim that the aquifers in northwestern New Mexico are suitable only for uranium mining because they are already naturally contaminated.

2) Can be powered with existing nuclear waste, sufficient to give hundreds of years of power with no further need for uranium mining.

At the same time, the voice of the younger people doesn't seem to be heard, even though much of the support for uranium mining is couched in concern for their future.

Not exact matches

In a rare move for the pro-mining Barnett government, environment minister Albert Jacob has sided with the Environmental Protection Authority and rejected appeals by Canadian company Cameco over its proposed Yeelirrie uranium mine in the Goldfields.

Mines and Petroleum Minister Bill Marmion says Queensland's looming ban on mining uranium is an opportunity for Western Australia to capitalise on mining the nuclear fuel ore.

Currently, there are 10 such facilities, so Uranium One's mining operations now account for an estimated 10 percent of in - situ recovery production capacity in the U.S., the NRC told us in an email.

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.

Energy discussions certainly factored into coverage of his visit to Canada, but they largely hinged around India as a prospective market for our oil and gas, and a new agreement that will see India purchase $ 350 million of uranium from Cameco, a Saskatchewan - based mining firm.

Prices for the metal have been depressed in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, but the situation got so bad this year that Cameco, the world's largest publicly traded uranium miner, had to suspend production at multiple mines.

These include adequate uranium supply (probably necessitating immense uranium strip mines in Tennessee), almost inconceivable reactor and waste - transport accidents, low - level radiation effects from normal plant operations, and the burden of guarding both radioactive waste and outdated but radioactive nuclear plants for thousands of years.

In science news around the world, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cracks down on stem cell labs, Brazil opens one of its largest national reserves to gold and iron mining, and the International Atomic Energy Agency launches a global bank for low - enriched uranium.

Abundance of this biogenic non-crystalline uranium has implications for environmental remediation of mining sites, and for mining practices in general.

There are few published studies on the effects of uranium mines on nearby residents, but researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of New Mexico are working on health assessments, according to EPA officials.

For ores that contain even less concentrated uranium — McArthur River is the most concentrated active mine — the proportion of waste in radium and other radioactive elements (as well as toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury) is even higher — and McArthur River's uranium is much less concentrated than the mines of the past like nearby Rabbit Lake or Shinkolobwe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.

For every metric ton of uranium ore pulled from McArthur River, roughly one metric ton of waste rock, often radioactive and rich in toxic heavy metals, is produced — and other mines produce even more waste rock per ton of ore.

The NRC, which regulates leach mining of uranium, expects 11 applications for new leach mines in the U.S. in addition to the one filed for Moore Ranch, along with the expansion of eight operations.

But finding enough fuel for existing and new reactors may prove a challenge, as will preventing the health and environmental impacts that have plagued uranium mining.

And CGNPC hopes to purchase a London - based mining firm — Kalahari Minerals — for access to uranium mines in the African nation of Namibia.

Three organizations — the Center for Biological Diversity, Grand Canyon Trust and Sierra Club — filed suit in federal court in October 2008 to block the Bureau of Land Management, which manages the area, from allowing uranium mining in what they consider risky and nationally significant areas.

Recent spikes in the price of uranium — perhaps due to renewed interest in nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels as global warming makes its presence felt — have led to a surge in applications for new uranium mining permits on otherwise protected federal lands.

A deeper understanding of the various factors controlling uranium mobility could potentially lead to better ways of cleaning up the nation's legacy of contamination from uranium mining and processing, and may help researchers devise new remediation strategies for contaminated sites in the upper Colorado River basin and elsewhere.

The chairman of Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) has called on Australian governments to embrace the potential to expand the country's uranium mining industry and be prepared for an expansion in nuclear power generation worldwide.

«Often forgotten, is the need for us to make sure that the buyers of our uranium oxide are able, in the face of resistance to nuclear power, to talk proudly about the responsible mining (and mine site rehabilitation) of their suppliers in Australia.

Spain - supported by an abstract for «Remediation of Inactive Uranium Mining and Milling Sites in Spain» from the «European Union International Symposium on Remediation and Restoration of Radioactive - contaminated Sites in Europe,» October 1993 (attached as Appendix C) which describes fully decommissioned mine and mill tailings facilities.

Moreover, there are «very real and specific dangers of nuclear energy,» including the reactor's «potential for massive destruction in an immediate danger,» plants are potential terrorist targets, plants provide «the means and excuse» to build nuclear bombs, and they create wastes that persist for thousands of years, and uranium mining causes lung disease and large volumes of wastes.

The indoor radon action levels for US homes and schools were adopted in response to the use of radioactive uranium mill tailings sand in construction and soil fill for homes and schools in the western US; recognized in the 1970's as one of the first direct community health risks from the process of uranium mining.

He asked me to help develop a scope of work for monitoring air, soils and water in residential areas affected by uranium mining.

He has had technical papers on mine waste management including uranium production sites, accepted for publication in Germany, Canada and the USA as well as by the European Union Nuclear Science and Technology Directorate.

RUSSIA Copy of research paper on uranium and thorium mines in the Chita region of Siberia and their associated environmental and health problems on behalf Baikalwatch, a project of the Earth Island Institute and the Baikal Center for Ecological and Citizen Initiatives in Irkutsk, Russia titled: «Environmental Damage and Policy Issues in the Uranium and Gold Mining Districts of Chita Oblast in the Russian Far East: A Report on Existing Problems at Baley and Krasnokamensk and Policy Needs in the Region» (91k document) completed Novembeuranium and thorium mines in the Chita region of Siberia and their associated environmental and health problems on behalf Baikalwatch, a project of the Earth Island Institute and the Baikal Center for Ecological and Citizen Initiatives in Irkutsk, Russia titled: «Environmental Damage and Policy Issues in the Uranium and Gold Mining Districts of Chita Oblast in the Russian Far East: A Report on Existing Problems at Baley and Krasnokamensk and Policy Needs in the Region» (91k document) completed NovembeUranium and Gold Mining Districts of Chita Oblast in the Russian Far East: A Report on Existing Problems at Baley and Krasnokamensk and Policy Needs in the Region» (91k document) completed November 1996.

Robinson completed his Master Degree in Community and Regional Planning from University of New Mexico with a professional project on planning for reclamation of uranium mine and mill sites in the former East Germany, and has 21 years experience as an environmental analyst specializing in the assessment of mine reclamation technology and programs.

For Mitchell Capitan, one of the founding members of Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM) who is now president of Crownpoint Chapter, the reasons are technical, and he gives them in a story I have heard more than a dozen times over the last seven years.

Other presentations addressed radiation concepts, radon occurrence and health hazards, risk and probability, the renal toxicity of uranium, ground - water science and water quality, uranium in situ leach mining, elements of the proposed NUAKHP, and requirements for approval of human health studies by the Navajo Nation's Human Research Review Board.

Copy of research paper on uranium and thorium mines in the Chita region of Siberia and their associated environmental and health problems on behalf Baikalwatch, a project of the Earth Island Institute and the Baikal Center for Ecological and Citizen Initiatives in Irkutsk, Russia titled: «Environmental Damage and Policy Issues in the Uranium and Gold Mining Districts of Chita Oblast in the Russian Far East: A Report on Existing Problems at Baley and Krasnokamensk and Policy Needs in the Region» (91k document) completed Novembeuranium and thorium mines in the Chita region of Siberia and their associated environmental and health problems on behalf Baikalwatch, a project of the Earth Island Institute and the Baikal Center for Ecological and Citizen Initiatives in Irkutsk, Russia titled: «Environmental Damage and Policy Issues in the Uranium and Gold Mining Districts of Chita Oblast in the Russian Far East: A Report on Existing Problems at Baley and Krasnokamensk and Policy Needs in the Region» (91k document) completed NovembeUranium and Gold Mining Districts of Chita Oblast in the Russian Far East: A Report on Existing Problems at Baley and Krasnokamensk and Policy Needs in the Region» (91k document) completed November 1996.

Proposed new uranium mining threatens to contaminate the only source of drinking water for 15,000 people on Navajo lands.

«Comments and Recommendations Submitted to Environmental Assessment Panel Reviewing Decommissioning Proposals for the Elliot Lake Uranium Mine Tailings Management Areas» is a ten point analysis of the closure plans for the large uranium waste sites in Ontario prepared by Paul Robinson in 1995 for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Panel Hearings on the DecommissUranium Mine Tailings Management Areas» is a ten point analysis of the closure plans for the large uranium waste sites in Ontario prepared by Paul Robinson in 1995 for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Panel Hearings on the Decommissuranium waste sites in Ontario prepared by Paul Robinson in 1995 for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Panel Hearings on the Decommissioning.

Volume 1; Number 1 — The Committment Continues... Dede Feldman In this issue: From the President; For 25 Years, The Workbook; Call to the Land, the Past, the Soul; Molycorp Clean - up Far from Over; Border Plan for Sustainability; Uranium Mining on Eastern Navajo; Black Ranch Driveway to Sprawl; Los Alamos Fire; Book ReviFor 25 Years, The Workbook; Call to the Land, the Past, the Soul; Molycorp Clean - up Far from Over; Border Plan for Sustainability; Uranium Mining on Eastern Navajo; Black Ranch Driveway to Sprawl; Los Alamos Fire; Book Revifor Sustainability; Uranium Mining on Eastern Navajo; Black Ranch Driveway to Sprawl; Los Alamos Fire; Book Reviews

CANADA «Comments and Recommendations Submitted to Environmental Assessment Panel Reviewing Decommissioning Proposals for the Elliot Lake Uranium Mine Tailings Management Areas» is a ten point analysis of the closure plans for the large uranium waste sites in Ontario prepared by Paul Robinson in 1995 for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Panel Hearings on the DecommissUranium Mine Tailings Management Areas» is a ten point analysis of the closure plans for the large uranium waste sites in Ontario prepared by Paul Robinson in 1995 for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Panel Hearings on the Decommissuranium waste sites in Ontario prepared by Paul Robinson in 1995 for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Panel Hearings on the Decommissioning.

(Again) to High - Level Waste at WIPP; Reclaiming the Land: History of Uranium Mill Tailings Clean - up; Mitchell Capitan & Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining Take Their Message to the International Stage; Karamken: An Abandoned Gold Facility Shows Need for Reclamation in Russia; Harris Arthur is SRIC's New Navajo Community Liason

In this issue: Environmental Justice in New Mexico - Renewed Push for Change; Recommendations on Environmental Justice - New Mexicans Respond; The Healthy Communities Bill — An Interview with Sofia Martinez; Richard Moore on Environmental Justice and the New Mexico Environment Department's Policy Committee; Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr. signs Diné Natural Resources Protection Act of 2005 New law bans uranium mining, processing throughout Navajo Nation; Diné Natural Resources Protection Act of 2005

Comments and Recommendations Submitted to Environmental Assessment Panel Reviewing Decommissioning Proposals for the Elliot Lake Uranium Mine Tailings Management Areas, Wm. Paul Robinson, SRIC, on behalf of Northwatch, North Bay, Ontario, Canada, November 15, 1995.

Comments of SRIC on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Reclamation of the Jackpile - Paguate Uranium Mine Laguna Reservation, New Mexico, by Wm. Paul Robinson, Chris Shuey, and Holis A. Whitson, Esq., October 4, 1985.

Promote implementation of the recommendations for clean up of the Church Rock Uranium facilities and assessments of air impacts from abandoned mines in the Church Rock area.

The second edition includes: Summary of EPA «Third Five - Year Review of the Homestake Mining Superfund site;» Summary of regulatory agency responses to 2011 NRC Office of Insp. General Report; and Summary of 2011 DOW inspection report for Anaconda Bluewater uranium mill tailings disposal site.

Russian UET resources with 311,000 tonnes of uranium, as well as the remaining Russia «excess» HEU with 108,000 tonnes of uranium, could continue to offset demand for primary uranium from unmined ore deposits, and could reduce the likelihood that new mines such as those proposed near Church Rock and Crownpoint in New Mexico would be mined in the future.

The jump is in the spot market price for uranium oxide, which is also known as «yellowcake,» the form of uranium produced at uranium mills and in situ mines.

Known and Suspected Health Hazards Related to the Mining and Milling of Uranium, presented before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Southwest and Rocky Mountain Division, by Lynda Taylor, SRIC, June 20, 1983.

In 2009 we won a grand victory for the Grand Canyon when Interior Secretary Salazar announced a two - year halt on new uranium - mining claims and exploration on 1 million acres of land near Grand Canyon National Park, with potential for a 20 - year withdrawal of those lands from most uranium mining.

One man said that information given in the presentation confirmed what he had feared for many years: that livestock that graze and drink water in uranium mining areas can accumulate radioactive substances and heavy metals in their edible muscle and organs in levels that may harm the animals themselves and that could contribute to excessive doses in the people who eat the livestock meat.

Ensure full funding for health studies among residents of communities impacted by uranium mining and milling, and restore cuts in existing studies.