Tag Archives: Uranium

Benefits of thorium as alternative nuclear fuel are ‘overstated’ via The guardian

Posted on 2012/09/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The benefits of an alternative nuclear fuel that could offer a safer and more abundant alternative to the uranium that powers conventional reactors have been “overstated”, according a new government report on the potential of thorium. The report says the … Continue reading →

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Tanzania ‘will mine uranium on Selous Game Reserve’ via BBC News

Posted on 2012/08/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Tanzania will go ahead with plans to mine uranium in the UN World Heritage site Selous Game Reserve, the natural resources minister has told the BBC. Ezekiel Maige said he told the recent UN World Heritage Centre meeting it would … Continue reading →

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Uranium Boom and Plutonium Bust: Russia, Japan, China and the World　via Japan Focus

Posted on 2012/05/01 by norma field

Over the last decade, the world of fissionable material has experienced a quiet revolution. Plutonium, once the lethal darling of nations seeking a secure source of fuel for their nuclear reactors (and their nuclear weapons) has fallen from favor. Uranium … Continue reading →

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Uranium Mines Dot Navajo Land, Neglected and Still Perilous via The New York Times

Posted on 2012/04/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

CAMERON, Ariz. — In the summer of 2010, a Navajo cattle rancher named Larry Gordy stumbled upon an abandoned uranium mine in the middle of his grazing land and figured he had better call in the feds. Engineers from the … Continue reading →

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Japan to Purchase Contracted Kazakh Uranium, Kazatomprom Says via Bloomberg

Posted on 2012/02/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Kazatomprom (KZAP), the state nuclear company in the world’s biggest uranium-producing nation, said its Japanese customers will take delivery of the fuel they agreed to buy even as the country idles its atomic stations. The supply contracts with Japan haven’t … Continue reading →

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India flaunts poverty of its moral leadership, brandishing an ad hoc, reactive nuclear policy via The Japan Times Online

Posted on 2011/12/20 by norma field

CANBERRA — The Australian Labor Party has just endorsed, albeit narrowly, Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s call to lift the contentious policy of the ban on uranium sales to India, although the latter is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation … Continue reading →

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Fukushima affects uranium stocks via trib.com

Posted on 2011/12/18 by Tomomi Yamaguchi

Share prices of global uranium majors continue to suffer the aftereffects of an earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant last March. That’s the assessment of Sydney, Australia-based Resource Capital Research, which noted share prices for selected … Continue reading →

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Pakistan demands equal treatment on uranium via AM

Posted on 2011/12/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Alternate WMA version | MP3 download TONY EASTLEY: The ALP’s decision to overturn the ban on selling uranium to India has drawn a strong reaction from its neighbour, Pakistan. Pakistan’s high commissioner to Australia Abdul Malik Abdullah says if Australia … Continue reading →

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Loan Request by Uranium-Enrichment Firm Upends Politics as Usual via The New York Times

Posted on 2011/11/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By MATTHEW L. WALD Published: November 24, 2011 WASHINGTON — The only American-owned company capable of enriching uranium is asking for government help to modernize its plant and remain in business. USEC, formerly the United States Enrichment Corporation, wants to … Continue reading →

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