According to the complaint and his online biography, Snelling obtained a doctoral degree in geology from the University of Sydney in 1982 and began his career by studying the Koongarra
uranium deposit in Australia's Northern Territory.
DOE officials estimate the robots could save tens of millions of dollars in completing the characterization
of uranium deposits at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, and save perhaps $ 50 million at a similar uranium enrichment plant in Paducah, Kentucky.
Borch and colleagues hope to explore the origins of roll - front
uranium deposits at other sites, in order to evaluate the global significance of their findings.
The lead discs block gamma rays
from uranium deposits that lie beyond the one - foot section of pipe that is being characterized at any given time.
Scientists sampled a 650 - foot deep sediment core from roll -
front uranium deposits at an unmined site at Wyoming's Smith Ranch Highlands.
A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute will soon be driving through miles of pipes at the U.S. Department of Energy's former uranium enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio, to identify
uranium deposits on pipe walls.
Applecross - based Power Resources Ltd has announced plans to raise $ 2.2 million through its initial public offer to fund exploration on its two prospective sandstone - hosted uranium deposits
Its motherlode consists of extraordinarily high -
grade uranium deposits in Saskatchewan: the McArthur River and Cigar Lake deposits account for roughly 80 % of its proven and probable reserves.
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.
A rush to develop domestic oil, gas and
uranium deposits along the Colorado River and its tributaries threatens its future
Such uranium deposits in Canada, Australia and Kazakhstan comprise the bulk of the world's known supply — although uranium is a ubiquitous atom that can even be derived from seawater.
The identified uranium isotope signatures could in future be used commercially to detect
unknown uranium deposits and help understand processes of uranium mobility.
EPA Project Summary - Trace and Potentially Toxic Elements Associated
with Uranium Deposits in South Texas, March 1983.
About 2 billion years ago, 3.7 % of all uranium worldwide would have been 235U, enough
for uranium deposits to «go critical» if other factors were favorable.
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global uranium deposits fuel the Alaska and will be printed in the March 2009 issue of Scientific American.
China's fast - growing nuclear industry has complained that
vital uranium deposits might be contaminated by coal mining: others fear that uranium - contaminated coal could be being burned in power stations, showering radioactive dust on the surrounding countryside and its inhabitants.
The two companies had signed a confidentiality agreement in connection with a visit to a Hathor -
owned uranium deposit.
«This will transform the way measurements
of uranium deposits are made from now on,» predicted William «Red» Whittaker, robotics professor and director of the Field Robotics Center.
The real crime that was committed was a direct violation of export controls that gave control of 20 % of
the uranium deposits belonging to the United States to parties closely affiliated with the Russians.
Finding
the uranium deposits, necessary before DOE decontaminates, decommissions and demolishes the facility, is a herculean task.
But mining companies are interested in
its uranium deposits, and pushed successfully to exclude the canyon in the monument.
Villains have stolen a jeweled crest containing a map which shows the location of
a uranium deposit.
Is there irony in the fact that this barren Utah desert, where the story takes place, holds the promise of great wealth from
its uranium deposits?