Sentences with phrase «from uranium mining»

Our lawyers are versed in US and international requirements covering new plants, power plant projects and transactions, plant regulation, nuclear liability issues, and all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mining, enrichment, fabrication, and transport to nuclear waste management, decommissioning, and disposal.

February 16, 2012 — «Grand Canyon Wins New Protections From Uranium Mining,» Taylor McKinnon, The Cleanest Line

We'd need to include all the deaths from uranium mining (which I'd bet are mostly unrecorded because the mining companies would much prefer not to pay compensation) as well as the construction of nuclear stations to get a comparison on that limited issue.

We rallied to defend our wild lands — and ensured the protection of a million acres around the Grand Canyon from Uranium mining.

While nuclear energy is regarded as the lesser of the two evils when compared at an emission level to the burning of fossil - fuels, it may trump on the containment of the heat process, which burns in a contained nuclear reactor through an in - ward heat - chemical reaction called fission, but nuclear energy production is a chain from uranium mining to the toxic waste disposal and therefore as an entire process is an equally high risk environmental option.

«Closed cycle» means quarantining the entire nuclear chain — from uranium mining to spent fuel burial — at a single, isolated, secure, safeguarded place.

Dr. Walker highlighted the vulnerability of the entire nuclear fuel cycle — from uranium mining to nuclear enrichment to commercial nuclear power to spent fuel storage, transportation, and finally reprocessing.

«Review of the Non-Radiological Contaminants in the Long - Term Management of Uranium Mine and Mill Wastes,» R.T. Pidgeon, School of Physics and Geosciences, Western Australian Institute of Technology; Taken from: «Proceedings Series, Management of Wastes from Uranium Mining and Milling, Proceedings of an International Symposium on Management of Wastes from Uranium Mining and Milling Jointly Organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and held in Albuquerque, May 10 - 14, 1982.»

At Southwest Research and Information Center, much of our work over the past 35 years has been to address the enormous legacy of nuclear's past and present — sick and dead people and contaminated land and water from uranium mining and milling, the world's first underground nuclear waste repository, and the political and economic power of the two nuclear weapons laboratories and their environmental impacts.

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.

Not exact matches

The respondents are most adamant that militarily significant sectors of the economy be protected from foreign ownership, including uranium mining.

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.

George Glasier, President and CEO of Western Uranium Corp. shares how the company is focused on near - term production from existing 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.

Visible from space, the Bayan — Obo iron mine in Inner Mongolia is the world's largest source of rare earths, and the Chinese companies supplying them employ acid to dissolve them out of ore rock that often also contains radioactive elements like thorium, radium or even uranium.

Uranium, the radioactive element that fuels nuclear power plants and occurs naturally in the Earth's crust, is typically mined from large sandstone deposits deep underground.

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.

Whether the uranium is stripped out of an open pit like the Ranger mine in Australia, removed from deep underground like McArthur River or chemically leached from its rocky home as at the Smith Ranch - Highland mine in Wyoming (the largest mine in the U.S.), yellowcake is the end product, along with a heap of radioactive tailings and, often, contaminated water.

China is also expanding its efforts to acquire more uranium globally, purchasing the products of uranium mines from Kazakhstan to Niger and even Canada.

Entombed within a highly restricted Superfund dump in Utah's Great Salt Lake Desert, alongside several tons of radioactive residue from atomic bomb factories and uranium mines, is a small chemistry experiment constructed in 1995 by an aspiring Eagle Scout from suburban Detroit.

D. audaxviator takes a third path: It draws its energy from the radioactivity of uranium in the rock in the mine.

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.

Instead, this «gold mine bug» gets energy from radioactive uranium in the depths of the mine.

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.

Another DM 13 billion will be made available to clean up uranium mines, with another DM 45 million to shield buildings from radon.

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.

«Acid Generation and Contaminant Transport in Decommissioned Sulfide - Bearing Mine - Tailings Impoundments» a paper by D. Blowes from University of Waterloo at a 1995 Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology Conference in Freiberg, Saxony, Germany

And from Canada came a variety of First Nations representatives, discussing past and current work to deal with the aftermath of uranium mining on their lands.

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.

Uranium mined from the earth contains only 0.7 percent (seven - tenths of 1 percent) U-235, the isotope used to fuel nuclear reactors and make bombs.

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.

From the historical perspective, the lingering impacts of underground uranium mining on the health and lands of the Navajo people are most often cited by community leaders as one of the principal reasons why so many Diné disfavor new uranium development by any method, including the in situ leach (ISL) technique.

«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

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As a result, more uranium from mines and mills was needed than would be the case with more U-235 extraction and lower U-235 content of UET.

These projections show continued growth in uranium mine production from «primary sources» in the next ten years, with an apparent steep drop off in uranium supplied from «secondary sources» in the near future.

Continue working with Navajo Nation officials and community groups to support DNRPA from expected legal challenges and assist other efforts to stop new uranium mining, including working closely with the Acoma Pueblo on permitting actions in the Mt. Taylor Traditional Cultural Property area.

Biomarker Monitoring of a Population Residing Near Uranium Mining Activities, W. W. Au, R. G. Lane, M. S. Legator, E. B. Whorton, G. S. Wilkinson, and G. J. Gabehart; reprinted from Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol.

Finally, you should work to halt the significant damage to western aquifers from coal and uranium mining companies.

Other articles in this issue discuss mining on indigenous lands, the expansion of uranium mining in New Mexico, and an excerpt from a report on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

Mining companies use various techniques to extract the uranium ore from the earth.

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 NRC gives every indication it is tilted toward the uranium and nuclear industry,» Capitan said, handing Rep. Udall a picture from the NRC's website of agency officials smiling and shaking hands with a uranium company that is proposing a new ISL mine in Wyoming.

Renzi said he, Udall and Matheson, plus other members of Congress, «are all signers to the Navajo Nation ban and we may need some technical corrections from BIA and NRC» to preserve the Navajo prohibition on uranium mining and processing in Navajo Country.

Voices from the Earth, Spring 2004: Moquino Community Gets Involved in Uranium Mill Tailings Decision; Not in My Backyard... Not in Anyone's; and Judge Rules: Mining Clean - up Plan «Deficient»

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.

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.

Seek legislation to impose a federal moratorium on new uranium development until environmental pollution from previous mining and milling is cleaned up, workers are appropriately compensated, and community health studies conducted.

Voices from the Earth, Winter 2001: A Clash of Values: Navajos» Uncompromising Opposition to Uranium Mining; and Domenici Drops Uranium Bailout

It went from $ 10 / pound in July 2003, to more than $ 20 / pound in October 2004, raising concerns among people in the Eastern Navajo Agency of northwestern New Mexico that long - proposed in situ uranium mines at Church Rock and Crownpoint could possibly become economically viable.