Sentences with phrase «new uranium»
«It is unfortunate that some in Congress are attempting to prevent the Obama administration from taking action to protect the Grand Canyon from new uranium mining.
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Reprocessing also had a difficult time competing economically with new uranium fuel.
That's why the proposed moratorium on new uranium claims is opposed by state and local officials in Arizona.»
The announcement came after we sued Interior for authorizing uranium exploration on the same 1 million acres, despite a Congressional resolution explicitly calling for the withdrawal of those lands from new uranium development.
After nearly two years of debate, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is expected to announce approval of a 20 - year moratorium on new uranium mining claims.
A bill introduced in Congress this week to «save uranium mining,» the Northern Arizona Mining Continuity Act of 2011, would undo that protection from new uranium mining claims.Despite all the talk about energy independence, «a significant percentage of these mining claims and pending operations are controlled by foreign interests, which pay no royalties for the mineral wealth they extract from U.S. public lands,» said Jane Danowitz of the Pew Environment Group, in response to the legislation.
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About 600 of the cards call on President Clinton to issue an executive order «barring federal agencies from approving new uranium mining on Navajo lands without the consent of the Navajo Nation or its people.»
Build community capacity to address public concerns about new uranium mining proposed in Navajo communities;
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.
The Uranium Production Cost Study complements UxC's Uranium Market Outlook (UMO) and Uranium Supplier's Annual (USA) in identifying where expanded and new uranium supply will come from among 116 worldwide projects to meet future nuclear fuel demand through 2030.
Mitchell Capitan, founder of Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM), stated that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) «did not respect the right and sovereignty of the Navajo Nation to say «No» to new uranium mining» when it granted Hydro Resources, Inc. (HRI), a license to mine uranium using the in situ leach (ISL) method in the Navajo communities of Churchrock and Crownpoint.
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.
The continued threat of new uranium mining and the broad opposition to it among communities and residents of the Eastern Navajo Agency were recurrent themes in statements made by ENDAUM and CCT members in meetings with congressional leaders during the Washington trip.
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.
Leaders of a Navajo citizens group describe why three new uranium solution mines pose a threat to the region's sole source of drinking water, and to Navajo jurisdiction and authority over mineral development.
Proposed new uranium mining threatens to contaminate the only source of drinking water for 15,000 people on Navajo lands.
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.
Church Rock Chapter, as well as other Navajo Nation communities, have been supportive of Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining's (ENDAUM) work to prevent new uranium mines on the Navajo Nation.
And now we're being told - again, not asked - to accept a new uranium operation.
«This ruling is another example of how the NRC consistently ignores our communities» concerns about new uranium mining and why the Navajo Nation must step into this fight to protect our people,» Livingston said.
Church Rock Chapter is not an Intervenor in the HRI case but adopted resolutions in 2000 and 2003 opposing new uranium mining in general and the HRI project specifically.
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.
For the first time in decades a new uranium rod fabrication plant is operating in New Mexico and it may soon be joined by as many as three others in the U.S.. That's because 2013 will see the expiration of an agreement with Russia that allows the U.S. to blend down the highly enriched uranium from decommissioned Russian nuclear warheads into the lower level enriched fuel used in U.S. nuclear reactors — a program known as «Megatons to Megawatts» that currently provides as much as 50 percent of U.S. nuclear fuel.
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Perth - based Stonehenge Metals has attracted a new partner for its Daejon joint venture uranium joint project in South Korea.
Vanadium and uranium explorer Yellow Rock Resources has formed a new subsidiary with an unnamed local solar system installer to sell vanadium - based batteries in Australia.
New trade deals will boost Canadian exports of everything from uranium to beef tallow.
Perth company Arafura Resources NL is to spin - off its Northern Territory uranium projects into a new, as yet unnamed, company.
The pressure on the Australian Labor Party at a state and federal level to allow expanded uranium mining is building as fast as the uranium price is rising and new explorers are pouring into the market.
On April 23, 2015, the New York Times wrote about the uranium issue, saying the paper had «built upon» Schweizer's information.
The convictions of Guryev and Mikerin are not new, and there's no evidence that either case has any connection to the Rosatom - Uranium One merger.
By: Henry Lazenby 3rd May 2018 Vancouver - based uranium explorer NexGen Energy has reported the scintillometer results for 54 winter drill holes comprising 30 208 m from its flagship Rook I project, in Northern Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin, reporting positive results on targets tested and outlining two new discoveries... →
New energy value chains can emerge from Canada's uranium exports to India, where, like coal, Canadian exports would be used as upstream inputs in producing energy for final consumption in India.
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.
The challenging times for uranium investing are set to continue until a new supply and demand production level and price are attained.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)-- The U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday that it is entering negotiations with General Electric's nuclear division on a proposal to replace an aging uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky with a new facility.
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.
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.
To address this problem, the research team prepared a new family of molecules with C = M = C cores where the metal was cerium [classed as a lanthanide] or thorium or uranium [which are classed as actinides] where two carbon atoms that are known to be strong donors were forced to be opposite to one another either side of the metal.»
Stateside, money may be the biggest deterrent to further development, since construction costs for a radically new reactor could far exceed the $ 10 billion - plus price tag for a conventional uranium plant.
Meitner and Frisch were able to provide an explanation for what he saw that would revolutionize the field of nuclear physics: A uranium nucleus could split in half — or fission, as they called it — producing two new nuclei, called fission fragments.
The new documentary «Uranium — Twisting the Dragon's Tail» explores the world's most controversial element.
«I think that this is primarily a way to bridge over the Ayatollah's requirement that no Iranian nuclear facility be shut down and the US requirement that enrichment of uranium stop there,» says Frank von Hippel, a nuclear - weapons and non-proliferation physicist at Princeton University in New Jersey.
These programs model the process of nuclear synthesis in supernovas and infer how much uranium and thorium would be present at the birth of new stars.
According to Teller's notes, Einstein's dictated draft not only raised the question of the Congo's uranium but also explained the possibility of chain reactions, suggested that a new type of bomb could result, and urged the president to set up formal contact with physicists working on this topic.
In recent years, scientists had uncovered new evidence that bacteria - living microorganisms — could generate a different kind of reduced uranium that is non-crystalline and has very different physical and chemical properties.
«It would be really nice to identify these organisms and harness this ability to clean up our messes,» says Lee Kerkhof at Rutgers University in New Jersey, who is studying microbes from an old uranium ore mill in Colorado.
«A new twist on uranium's origin story: Mineral deposits in Wyoming have revealed a new form of biologically produced uranium.»
Thomas Borch, professor of soil and crop sciences with joint appointments in chemistry and civil and environmental engineering, and Amrita Bhattacharyya, a former postdoctoral researcher in Borch's lab, offer evidence for a new origin story for the uranium trapped underground in roll fronts.