In the late 1970s, Navajo uranium miners and their families asked for help to show that their lung diseases had been caused by their work in underground
uranium mines in the 1940s - 1960s.
And CGNPC hopes to purchase a London - based mining firm — Kalahari Minerals — for access to
uranium mines in the African nation of Namibia.
In a rare move for the pro-mining Barnett government, environment minister Albert Jacob has sided with the Environmental Protection Authority and rejected appeals by Canadian company Cameco over its proposed Yeelirrie
uranium mine in the Goldfields.
Perth - based Paladin Energy has settled the sale of a 25 per cent stake in its flagship Langer Heinrich
uranium mine in Nambia, under a deal originally announced to the market in January this year.
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.
They fear that
uranium mining in the area could lead to the release of radioactivity and heavy metals like selenium into the Colorado River and its watershed, including within Grand Canyon National Park.
Those studies were requested by Church Rock Chapter two years ago to determine if past
uranium mining in the area had contaminated the lands on which 900 to 1,000 single - family homes will be built.
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.
V.B. Price speaks with the Paul Robinson, Research Director at the Southwest Research and Information Center, about the legacy of
uranium mining in New Mexico, how the uranium market works and who suffers if there's another boom.
An example of what's going on in the world affecting us is the rise in the global uranium spot prices - the price per pound of uranium used in nuclear power plants - and how it relates to work we do, especially regarding proposed
uranium mining in New Mexico (pages 8 - 9).
Insight New Mexico's V.B. Price interviews SRIC's Paul Robinson regarding the legacy of
uranium mining in New Mexico.
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.
Fake «Cold Shutdown» Fukushima and NRC, Nukes Fail in Climate, De-Growth Best Option, Japan: Twilight of the Nuclear Gods, Japan Atomic Energy Bulletins, Nuclear Waste and Plutonium,
Uranium Mining in Australia, Atomic Accidents and Food, Dr. Helen Caldicott's «If You Love This Planet» radio show and podcast, many more...
These include specimens such as a meteorite fragment containing pre-solar grains, Saléeite crystals from the Ranger
Uranium Mine in the Northern Territory, a 23 - million - year - old kauri log and a fossilised «sea lily» unearthed in a Brunswick clay pit in 1923.
More on the Grand Canyon and uranium mining: Moratorium on
Uranium Mining in Grand Canyon About to Expire - Will BLM Cave to Lobbyists?
I cut my political teeth, inter alia fighting
uranium mining in the 1970s.
The call, made in a submission to Chief Scientist Alan Finkel's review of future security of the NEM, came with the revelation that BHP's power bill at the Olympic Dam copper and
uranium mine in South Australia is expected to rise by $ US30m ($ 39m) this year because of higher gas prices and the cost of contracts that offset the risks of power price spikes.
The debate centred around the future of
uranium mining in Arizona.
The Bill already includes an 18 % reduction in the budget of the EPA but the additional measures include a rider preventing the EPA from issuing any regulation on greenhouse gases for the next year, a rider stopping the EPA from bringing in proposed fuel - efficiency standards for all automobiles (which were approved by manufacturers) a refusal to label toxic ash spill left from coal combustion as hazardous waste, a rider preventing
uranium mining in the Grand Canyon and a prevention on stopping limits on mercury usage.
«Protecting the Colorado River's water quality is of paramount importance and, as such, the potential for degradation of Colorado River water quality through increased
uranium mining in the Grand Canyon area is an issue of concern to the Partnership.»
Or to run some nukes, where geology permits, using
uranium mined in Canada or Oz.
Not exact matches
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 in
uranium mining, this time at today's opening of the Australian
Uranium Conference in
Uranium Conference
in Perth.
RECENTLY - LISTED local
mining junior Bannerman Resources has entered into an agreement to acquire the majority rights to a
uranium exploration portfolio situated
in the southern African nation of Namibia
in an area close to the world's largest open pit
uranium mines.
Currently, there are 10 such facilities, so
Uranium One's
mining operations now account for an estimated 10 percent of
in - situ recovery production capacity
in the U.S., the NRC told us
in an email.
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 Comm
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 Comm
uranium in - situ recovery production capacity
in the U.S.,» according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Update, Nov. 1: This story has been updated to say that NRC now estimates that
Uranium One's
mining operations account for about 10 percent of
in - situ recovery production capacity
in the U.S.. That's half of what it was
in 2010, because more
in - situ recovery
mining operators have been licensed since 2010.
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.
He sees good buys
in the shares of nuclear service companies and
uranium 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.
No physical
Uranium was shipped to Russia, it was more of a financial investment, but I admit, I'm not crystal clear on it being an American company
mining in South Africa and how exactly that works.
Paul began
in journalism as an intern at the Atlantic Monthly
in its final Boston days, followed by several years at an alumni magazine and then the Prague Post, the Czech expat newspaper, where he visited Europe's last
uranium mine and the radon spas of Jachymov.
In science news around the world, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cracks down on stem cell labs, Brazil opens one of its largest national reserves to gold and iron
mining, and the International Atomic Energy Agency launches a global bank for low - enriched
uranium.
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.
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.
Abundance of this biogenic non-crystalline
uranium has implications for environmental remediation of
mining sites, and for
mining practices
in general.
The
uranium mine Gordy found wasn't even included
in the EPA's original atlas.
Like hundreds of other abandoned
mines in the Navajo Nation, the United States» largest Indian reservation, it looks as if it might still be
in use — tailings, or waste products of
uranium processing, are still piled everywhere, and the land isn't fenced off.
In addition, only about one tenth of the mined uranium ore is converted into fuel in the enrichment process (during which the concentration of uranium 235 is increased considerably), so less than a hundredth of the ore's total energy content is used to generate power in today's plant
In addition, only about one tenth of the
mined uranium ore is converted into fuel
in the enrichment process (during which the concentration of uranium 235 is increased considerably), so less than a hundredth of the ore's total energy content is used to generate power in today's plant
in the enrichment process (during which the concentration of
uranium 235 is increased considerably), so less than a hundredth of the ore's total energy content is used to generate power
in today's plant
in today's plants.
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.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is currently embroiled
in a massive effort to assess 520 open abandoned
uranium mines all over the vast reservation.
* Owned and operated by Cameco Corp., the world's largest producer of
uranium, the
mine disgorged about 18.7 million pounds (8.5 million kilograms) of the nuclear element
in 2007.
For ores that contain even less concentrated
uranium — McArthur River is the most concentrated active
mine — the proportion of waste
in radium and other radioactive elements (as well as toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury) is even higher — and McArthur River's
uranium is much less concentrated than the
mines of the past like nearby Rabbit Lake or Shinkolobwe
in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.
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.
The NRC, which regulates leach
mining of
uranium, expects 11 applications for new leach
mines in the U.S.
in addition to the one filed for Moore Ranch, along with the expansion of eight operations.
But
mining companies are interested
in its
uranium deposits, and pushed successfully to exclude the canyon
in the monument.
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.
U.S.
uranium mining has diminished since its peak
in the 1980s, but with the push to expand nuclear power as a way to fight global warming a resurgence may be
in the offing
In fact, most of the mining is done via remote control, because the McArthur River deposit is so rich: more than 20 percent triuranium octaoxide (U3O8), the most common form of uranium found in nature, according to Camec
In fact, most of the
mining is done via remote control, because the McArthur River deposit is so rich: more than 20 percent triuranium octaoxide (U3O8), the most common form of
uranium found
in nature, according to Camec
in nature, according to Cameco.
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.