San Juan Record - Uranium once again being milled in San Juan County
Well, it has been a long, expensive, painful wait – about half a lifetime for many of us in southeast Utah. But on April 30, 2008, the Dennison Mill on White Mesa (six miles south of Blanding) officially began milling uranium ore. It is the first time that has happened in the United States in decades.
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edmontonsun.com - Canada- Tories pushing to have Canada enrich uranium, but won't talk
OTTAWA — Does Stephen Harper’s Conservative government have a hidden nuclear agenda? Not if you happen to live outside Canada. The Canadian government has been campaigning internationally for months to add this country to the small, tightly circumscribed club of nuclear enrichment states. But the diplomatic arm-twisting only came to light less than three weeks ago, when the United States announced it was dropping its insistence on a ban on uranium enrichment technology to non-nuclear states.
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State orders radiation tests at Weymouth Neck waste site - The Boston Globe
State officials have decided that the 68-acre Weymouth Neck hazardous waste site should be tested for radiation contamination. The decision marks a change in direction for Department of Environmental Protection regulators who earlier this year received a statement from ConocoPhillips, the site's previous owner, indicating that the company was satisfied that its cleanup effort was complete and the site posed no significant risk to people living or working on it.
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DEC: West Valley cleanup short of goals - Business First of Buffalo:
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation says 21 years after agreeing to remove radioactive waste at the Western New York Nuclear Service Center in West Valley, the federal government has not met expectations. The state agency released a report May 7, saying the U.S. Department of Energy has yet to reach the first regulatory milepost -- the completion of a final environmental impact statement at the facility, which has been closed since 1975.
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Hanford News : Southwest Idaho company making millions by accepting toxic waste
Railcars loaded with 6,700 tons of radioactive waste will roll across the Treasure Valley this week, the cargo destined for a remote site south of Boise on a sagebrush-dotted plateau near the Snake River. And it won't be the first time. This scenario has occurred regularly over the past several years. The site Idaho's only public hazardous waste dump has received more than 1 million tons of radioactive materials from the federal government during the past five years.
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The Columbus Dispatch : DOE plan for nuke waste is reshelved
WASHINGTON -- Some say a multibillion-dollar recycling center for nuclear waste would be an economic blessing for southern Ohio. Others see it as little more than a radioactive waste dump. But both sides agree on at least one thing: The Department of Energy initiative will not happen anytime soon on the grounds of the former uranium-enrichment plant in Piketon -- or perhaps anywhere else.
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BBC NEWS | Europe | Russia and US strike nuclear deal
Russia and the US have signed a key agreement on civilian nuclear power that formally allows nuclear trade between US and Russian companies. It will also allow them to widen technological co-operation in areas such as storing nuclear materials.
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Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: Key GNEP Decision Left to Next President
With its Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) already facing resistance from Congress, the Bush administration has decided to leave to the next president key decisions affecting the domestic leg of the controversial program. Administration officials have claimed that GNEP, which seeks to develop new nuclear technologies and new international nuclear fuel arrangements, will cut nuclear waste and decrease the risk that an anticipated growth in the use of nuclear energy worldwide could spur nuclear proliferation.
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TVA to design concept plan for nuclear waste reprocessing plant : Knoxville News Sentinel
The Tennessee Valley Authority has received $4 million to develop a conceptual design for a nuclear waste reprocessing plant that could end up as a demonstration facility built on the former Clinch Breeder Reactor site.
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UPDATE: Areva chooses Idaho site instead of Richland | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news
Areva will not be building a $2 billion uranium enrichment facility in Richland, instead picking a site close to the Idaho National Laboratory, Areva announced today. “While we had several attractive sites to choose from, we opted for Idaho Falls, which has strong ties to nuclear energy, and which welcomed Areva and its proposed enrichment facility to become a new member of its community,” said Michael Murphy, president of Areva, in a statement.
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EnergySolutions sues to stop state's bid to block Italian nuke waste - Salt Lake Tribune
EnergySolutions has gone to court to protect its plan to import low-level nuclear waste from Italy. The Salt Lake City nuclear waste services company filed a lawsuit Monday asking the U.S. District Court in Utah to rule that a regional organization, the Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management, has no authority over its Utah disposal site. At a meeting planned for Thursday in Boise, Idaho, the eight member states of the compact are to consider whether to give explicit approval for the importation of foreign waste to the EnergySolutions disposal facility in Tooele County.
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Russia's Tvel Could Put New Vver Reactor Fuel on Market - Business - redOrbit
MOSCOW. May 4 (Interfax) - Russian nuclear fuel corporation TVEL proposes to launch a new type of VVER reactor fuel. Rosatom, the state nuclear corporation, said on its website that its own specialists and specialists from TVEL would discuss the launch of TVSA-Alfa, a new version of the TVSA fuel, at a meeting on May 14. TVEL told Interfax that the new fuel would increase the uranium feed and make nuclear power plant fuel cycles more economical.
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DOE: Senior DOE Official to Outline Cold War Era Nuclear Waste Cleanup Progress
WASHINGTON, DC – On Wednesday, May 7, 2008, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management (EM) James A. Rispoli will deliver remarks at the Environmental Management Advisory Board (EMAB) semi-annual public meeting in Washington, D.C. Assistant Secretary Rispoli will provide an update on the Bush Administration’s priorities for safely and responsibly cleaning up the Nation’s Cold War era nuclear waste and will outline the Department’s recent accomplishments across the DOE complex
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Deseret News | Firm pitches idea for a uranium mill
Mancos Resources Inc. presented the Utah Radiation Control Board in its meeting Friday with a uranium mill proposal for an "isolated" location six miles northwest of the Green River area in Emery County. Mancos is owned by Canadian-based Bluerock Resources Ltd., which has one operating mine, one nearing production and twelve "uranium properties" in Utah and Colorado. Its proposal, which was an information-only item for the board, is to mine 1,200 tons per day at a "conventional" uranium mill, using a wet crushing and solvent extraction technique.
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Tennessee group fights to keep out nuclear waste | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean
A push is on to try to stop a private firm from bringing waste from old Italian nuclear plants to Tennessee for processing. EnergySolutions of Utah has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for approval to haul up to 20,000 tons of the material to Oak Ridge, and a Rutherford County group has joined the fight to keep it out. Advertisement "If we don't act quickly, the application will be approved for this enormous shipment, and the doors will be open for all of Europe's nuclear waste to enter the U.S.," Kathy Ferris of Murfreesboro, with Citizens to End Nuclear Dumping in Tennessee, said in an e-mail.
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Peterborough Examiner - Firm drilling for uranium
A metallurgical company in Lakefield is testing samples of rocks bearing uranium from a surface exploration and drilling project near Bancroft, a mining company announced yesterday.\n\nThe final report from SGS Mineral Services Laboratory in Lakefield is nearing completion, Bancroft Uranium Inc. states in an update on its Monmouth uranium project.\n\n"The Bancroft area is well known for historic uranium production where four uranium mines once operated, producing a total of 14,862,653 pounds of U308 (a type of uranium) between 1956 and 1982," Bancroft Uranium states.
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DIAMOND to tackle UK nuclear waste issues
The long-term problem of how to manage and dispose of Britain’s nuclear waste is to be tackled by a UK consortium headed by the University of Leeds. Over the past 60 years, Britain has established 20 nuclear sites and facilities, as part of its civil nuclear programme. These are now managed by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). Current estimates of the cost of decommissioning the sites and handling waste management and disposal stand at around £70 billion.
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herenb.com - Groups say 'no' to uranium
"This is a matter of life and death," he says. "New Brunswick has the highest rate of cancer in Canada. So why would you want to bring in something to cause more cancer?" Exploratory drilling has been going on in New Brunswick for the past two years. A large supply of uranium has been found between Harvey and New Maryland. There's also interest in opening a mine outside of Moncton. If approved, mining could begin within 12 years.
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Idaho Press-Tribune: Contaminated sand slated for Idaho dump site
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Nearly 80 rail cars loaded with contaminated sand from Kuwait are headed to a desert dump site in southwestern Idaho. Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Director Brian Monson says the American Ecology Co. is moving about 6,700 tons of sand to a hazardous waste disposal site in the Owyhee desert 70 miles southeast of Boise. The sand is from Camp Doha, a U.S. Army Base in Kuwait. The sand absorbed depleted uranium after ammunition caught fire.
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Ian Sample on how nuclear power works | Environment | The Guardian
The world's first large-scale nuclear power plant opened at Calder Hall in Cumbria, England, in 1956 and produced electricity for 47 years. Nuclear power is generated using uranium, a metal that is mined as an ore in large quantities, with Canada, Australia and Kazakhstan providing more than half of the world's supplies.
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