Sentences with phrase «uranium at»

While used in thousands of factories for legitimate manufacturing processes, the Siemens controllers targeted by Stuxnet were also used to enrich uranium at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility.
The enrichment of uranium at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion plant in Kentucky released massive amounts (25 % world's total) of chlorofluorocarbons («CFCs») before operations ceased.
The amount of uranium at present and future mineable concentrations in the Earth's continental Crust means uranium resources are effectively unlimited.
Andrew Michelmore, who headed Western Mining before it was taken over by BHP, in 2005 negotiated with French nuclear giant Areva regarding enriching uranium at Olympic Dam.
As uranium is a very small part of the cost of running a nuclear reactor uranium at much higher prices is still economically usable.
Right now, Hathor is exploring for uranium at its Midwest Northeast project, which is close to producing properties that are currently owned by Cameco and AREVA of France.
In 1979, U.S. reserves of uranium at the $ 50 / pound cost of recovery were 979,000 tonnes, and New Mexico uranium reserves were 511,500 tonnes, or 52 % of that total.
The researchers looked for signs of bacterial activity when they gradually added small amounts of dissolved uranium at the right concentration back to the samples where uranium had become immobilized.
Then, they'll fire beams of heavy ions such as uranium at the container until the water within is sweltering under temperatures thousands of degrees Kelvin and pressures of several million atmospheres.
Therefore, the coral would have stopped taking in uranium at the moment it was pulled from the sea.
Because the uranium at this mine is on the surface of the land, people and animals are more likely to come in contact with it, he added.
They say enriching uranium at a processing plant poses less risk than handling spent nuclear fuel, which is highly radioactive, at a reactor.
Borch, working on an unrelated experiment studying the composition of uranium at mined and unmined sites in Wyoming, surmised that this biogenic (of biological origin), non-crystalline uranium might occur naturally within ore deposits.
Supporters of the deal argue that Iran is just months from creating weapons - grade uranium at any of its 19,000 refining centrifuges, and that only the agreement can stave off such a development for a decade or more.
The slowing of the refinement only works if Iran only refines Uranium at designated places, and those places are monitored.
Critics believe that the regime agreed to by the Iranians is insufficiently robust to ensure that they are only refining Uranium at the designated locations.
Hard rock deposits by and large are not economic at current spot (or term) uranium prices, so if you see uranium at $ 75 or $ 80 per pound in the coming years (I don't), purchasing shares in hard rock uranium development companies could lead to gains.
Iran would have to enrich uranium at much higher levels to produce a weapon.
That's partly because under an arrangement struck years ago, it sells that uranium at low prices to a subsidiary in Switzerland, where profits are taxed at lower rates.
Andrew and Nicola Forrest's company Forrest & Forrest has lodged an appeal against the Supreme Court's decision to allow Tony Sage - led Cauldron Energy to explore for uranium at Minderoo Station.

Not exact matches

That the agreement does not include any of those realities because it is aimed at curtailing centrifuge production and uranium enrichment — and that it has done so successfully — was not mentioned.
Aspiring uranium miner Bannerman Resources chief executive and managing director Len Jubber has resigned after seven years at the helm, with his shoes to be filled with former general manager Brandon Munro.
Toro Energy has received the environmental watchdog's backing to mine two additional deposits at its Wiluna uranium project, subject to a number of strict conditions.
Resource Capital Funds is set to emerge with a near 30 per cent stake in Vimy Resources when the uranium company completes a $ 22 million capital boost to fund ongoing work at its Mulga Rock project in the eastern Goldfields.
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 inuranium mining, this time at today's opening of the Australian Uranium Conference inUranium Conference in Perth.
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.
At Mount Philip, Hammer is targeting iron oxide - copper - gold - uranium of similar style to the Olympic Dam deposit in S.A.
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.
Uranium markets were depressed in 1999; the metallic element traded on the spot market at around US$ 10 a pound.
The region hosts the world's largest open cut uranium mine at Rössing, majority owned by Rio Tinto, and Paladin Resources» Langer Heinrich uranium deposit.
The Times also wrote that Bill Clinton spoke at a conference in Moscow on June 29, 2010 — which was after the Rosatom - Uranium One merger was announced in June 2010, but before it was approved by the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States in October 2010.
But, as the NRC explained at the time, «no uranium produced at either facility may be exported.»
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.
Uranium mineralisation at Cliff South and Cleo offer upside when the market for uranium reUranium mineralisation at Cliff South and Cleo offer upside when the market for uranium reuranium recovers.
Copper is the primary commodity target at both projects, but Allamber also hosts known uranium mineralisation, as well as zinc, lead, silver and graphite occurrences.
Demonstration of High Performance in Layered Deuterium - Tritium Capsule Implosions in Uranium Hohlraums at the National Ignition Facility
At its core, Mueller's conservative critics point to Uranium One to bolster their case that the former FBI chief has his own complicated history with the Clintons and Russia, making him too biased to fairly and impartially investigate the man who defeated Hillary Clinton for the presidency.
Russian agression in Ukraine has led to numerous economic sanctions with Australia threatening to ban the sale of uranium to Russia at the forefront.
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.
As president / CEO of Skyharbour Resources TSXV: SYH, Jordan Trimble proved adept at fundraising and deal - making while building a 250,000 - hectare uranium - thorium exploration portfolio in Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin.
In the wake of these two events, uranium producers were left selling their product at a loss.
It may be that I'm being too cautious at this stage of the investment cycle with uranium and could be leaving some gains on the table.
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!
At some later date (but after the reverse faulting) the Koongarra uranium mineral deposit forms, perhaps in several stages, first between 1650 - 1550 million years ago, and later around 870 and 420 million years.
At the very bottom of the board we have the 92 simple chemical elements (from hydrogen to uranium) formed by groups of atomic nuclei together with their electrons.
Whether in the red giants, the medium yellows or the white dwarfs, we may surmise at the presence in the center of heavy and extremely unstable elements possessing a greater atomic weight than uranium (unless these are simply «ordinary matter» reduced to a physical state of extraordinary compression).
To look at deep geological time, you need to turn to other dating methods, such as potassium - argon or uranium - lead dating.
Now, when Iran is allowed to enrich uranium themselves, Russia is at big loss.
In order to build a nuclear weapon, the most important and difficult task is acquiring enough Uranium - 235 or Plutonium - 239 at weapons grade purity.
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