Sentences with phrase «get uranium»

The mining and milling of uranium leaves a radioactive mess, I can just imagine sifting through billions of gallons of coal ash to get the uranium out of it.

Not exact matches

I still maintain that uranium will get much more exciting in the 2016 - 2017 time frame and I'm finding myself increasingly isolated in that view with other analysts thinking it could be 2018 - 2020 before the next leg up in uranium occurs.

As a matter of fact at TD Ameritrade, one of the biggest discount brokers, you can't even get a quote let alone a chart on any Vancouver Gold or Uranium stocks regardless of their price or volumes.

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.

From Credo Action — Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks have gotten involved in the production and distribution of physical commodities — things like aluminum, oil, electric power, and even uranium yellowcake.

The Obama administration knew that Russia had used bribery, kickbacks and extortion to get a stake in the US atomic - energy industry — but cut deals giving Moscow control of a large chunk of the US uranium supply anyway.

Earlier this month, the cleanup got a boost from a bankruptcy settlement with Oklahoma City - based chemical company Tronox Inc., which will give federal and Navajo Nation officials $ 14.5 million to address the reservation's uranium contamination.

Mike Thorne, a uranium expert from AEA Technology at Harwell in Oxfordshire, formerly part of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, points out that as an alpha - emitter, it poses a similar risk to plutonium if it gets inside the body.

In June archaeologist Alistair Pike, now at the University of Southampton, described a clever way to get answers: Analyze the breakdown of radioactive uranium - 234 embedded in the natural mineral crust that forms on top of the artworks.

Hyperion's 25 - megawatt prototype, which is based on technology developed at nearby Los Alamos National Laboratory and is similar to reactors long used on Russian submarines, gets by with more conventional levels of uranium enrichment but could still run 8 to 10 years without refueling.

A bill introduced by Senator Tom Udall (D - N.M.) and Congressman Ben Ray Lujan (D - N.M.) would expand the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, making it easier for uranium workers and residents downwind from nuclear test sites to get federal cash and medical help.

«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.

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

He also pointed out at Los Alamos where it was originally planned that this was going to be easy, and we are going to use a gun to assemble the uranium and then we have got plutonium and we are going to use a gun.

These were experiments in which we brought together some masses of uranium or plutonium and measured how many neutrons came out as a function of the distance between the parts, and it was a way of getting information about the basic processes that were going on in the neutron reactions with the plutonium and other things.

«What do you get by complicating the fuel cycle by looking at thorium when we have plenty of uranium?»

And it was Fermi's idea of doing the pile which, of course, was the way we got plutonium, and that's most amazing that we went critical in, [it] was like in December of 1942, I think, it was the seventh, and two years later we were getting plutonium at Los Alamos to build a bomb, most amazing; and of course that reactor there was made with unenriched uranium, so you don't need enriched uranium to have a nuclear reactor and to make plutonium, but Fermi clearly he was known as the Pope: infallible, no question about it.

«We want to understand the way uranium gets from the ground into the groundwater, creating a plume of contamination in which uranium concentrations stay above regulatory safety requirements.»

Hunting for the universe's heaviest atoms just got a little easier, thanks to a new technique that directly measures the mass of elements heavier than uranium.

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»

U still around, how did it get here, what concentrated it in ore bodies on earth, and why do we not see much more lead associated with the uranium?

As the uranium and thorium decay, they produce lead isotopes that get trapped within the zircons.

Perhaps once we get a clear view of State's wrongheaded objections, some smart person out there in the form of an immigration attorney can convince the feds that no matter how you enrich the uranium of His Pathetic Majesty, it is never a weapon of mass destruction, but an energy source of the greatest potential that this country not only needs, but needs badly.

In this adventure, an intrepid explorer and a missionary's daughter embark upon a perilous journey through Africa in order to get the rights to a uranium mine.

Even though she doesn't believe the get - rich - quick claims in the government pamphlets, Jean Waterman still takes her children, leaves her Midwestern home and joins the ranks of uranium prospectors.

Project AMR2 and Pokemon Uranium were two of the biggest online fan projects to get the axe.

A fan - made remake of Metroid 2 got the ax from Nintendo earlier this year, while the fan - made (and incredibly popular) Pokemon Uranium was also removed from the web after the creators became concerned about Nintendo's legal team.

1bbb: Coal ashes and cinders contain so much uranium and thorium that more energy goes into coal cinders and ash in the form of uranium and thorium than you get by burning the coal.

If you multiply 4 million tons by 1 part per million, you get 4 tons of uranium.

It's like if physicists in the 1940s were waiting when enough Uranium gets together and an accidental explosion of the atomic bomb occurs.

Lately it is being reported foreign interests especially Russia bestowed millions on the Clintons in order to get a green light to gobble up US uranium.

Breeder reactors can get around 100 times more energy out of uranium or thorium than is currently done.

I would just say that New Mexican solar is going to last a lot longer than uranium and failing to get some local solar going in the Southeast is going to lead to that region becoming dependent on external renewable resources rather than internal ones.

These either burn fossil fuel and thus contribute to global warming, or use uranium, which brings problems such as how to get rid of the waste, as well as political opposition.

On the face of it looks far better than uranium as a way to get power from the atom.

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.

And you would know that we could get enough uranium out of sea water for 30,000 years.

We should be able to get all the uranium and thorium we need to fuel nuclear power plants for centuries by using cinders and smoke as ore.

To solve climate change, we'll need tens of thousands of breeders, thorium, uranium or both, so we better get cracking.

You want to have one of the passwords that doesn't get cracked so you don't wake up a few days later to an email receipt because Amazon just billed you for 1,000 tins of uranium ore and shipping to someone in North Korea.