Tag Archives: Uranium

Labour’s ‘nuclear is renewable’ claim is an insult to dead uranium miners via David Toke’s Green Energy Blog

Posted on 2019/10/24 by nfield

[…] In a ‘boiler room’ coup Labour seems to be secretly plotting to re-launch the new nuclear build programme by renaming nuclear power as ‘renewable’. Their ‘expert report’ argues that the current level of nuclear generation needs to be maintained, … Continue reading →

Posted in *English | Tagged , , , , | 3 Comments

US official: Research finds uranium in Navajo women, babies via AP

Posted on 2019/10/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By MARY HUDETZ ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — About a quarter of Navajo women and some infants who were part of a federally funded study on uranium exposure had high levels of the radioactive metal in their systems, decades after mining … Continue reading →

Posted in *English | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

Uranium Giant Cameco Can’t Catch a Break via The Wall Street Journal

Posted on 2019/08/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Jitters over a nuclear accident in Russia are the latest in a cascade of negative sentiment By Spencer Jakab Monday wasn’t a good day to be in the nuclear fuel business, but then the past eight years hardly have been a … Continue reading →

Posted in *English | Tagged , , | 6 Comments

Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster, Is Still Poisoning Navajo Lands 40 Years Later via Vice

Posted on 2019/08/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Residents say they’ve been ignored even as the struggle with contaminated water and worry about having children. By Samuel Gilbert; photos by Ramsay de Give Early in the summer of 1979, Larry King, an underground surveyor at the United Nuclear Corporation’s Church … Continue reading →

Posted in *English | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Nuclear Power – Where’s The Uranium Coming From? via Forbes

Posted on 2019/05/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] The Uranium Committee of the Energy Minerals Division released their 2019 Annual Report last week in San Antonio at the annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. The Uranium Committee monitors uranium industry activities, and the production of electricity … Continue reading →

Posted in *English | Tagged , | 4 Comments

How scientists traced a uranium cube to Nazi Germany’s nuclear reactor program via Science News

Posted on 2019/05/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A radioactive relic from World War II wound up in the hands of physicist Timothy Koeth BY  EMILY CONOVER The mysterious cube arrived in the summer of 2013. Physicist Timothy Koeth had agreed to go to a parking lot for an … Continue reading →

Posted in *English | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

Brazilian nuclear plant uranium convoy attacked by armed men: police via Reuters

Posted on 2019/03/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Armed men shot at members of a convoy transporting uranium to one of Brazil’s two working nuclear power plants on a coastal road in Rio de Janeiro state on Tuesday, police and the company managing … Continue reading →

Posted in *English | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

Grand Canyon tourists exposed for years to radiation in museum building via azcentral.com

Posted on 2019/02/19 by nfield

   

Posted in *English | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

Uranium enrichment coming back to Ohio? Trump DOE announces $115M investment via Cincinatti.com The Enquirer

Posted on 2019/01/14 by nfield

A $115 million investment from the Department of Energy could bring uranium enrichment back to Piketon. For decades, the federal government enriched uranium in a sprawling facility along the banks of the Scioto River, but the last programs there were … Continue reading →

Posted in *English | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Federal health officials agree radioactive waste in St. Louis area may be linked to cancer via CBS

Posted on 2018/08/09 by nfield

The federal government confirms some people in the St. Louis area may have a higher risk of getting cancer. A recent health report found some residents who grew up in areas contaminated by radioactive waste decades ago may have increased … Continue reading →

Posted in *English | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments