“We have sent a request for the import of 950 tons of yellow cake from Kazakhstan,” ISNA news agency quoted Ali Akbar Salehi as saying on Saturday. Yellow cake imports follow the 2015 nuclear deal that removed economic sanctions against Iran after it agreed to roll back its nuclear program. Imported yellow material will be […]
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Restraining order halts Sequoyah Fuels disposal plan
“We don’t want this. We’re not going to take this sitting down.” Those are the words of Gore City Administrator Horace Lindley as he voiced the Town of Gore’s concern over Sequoyah Fuels wanting to dispose of radioactive waste at the company’s plant that sits near the juncture of the Illinois and Arkansas rivers. The […]
Iran Plans to Inject UF6 Gas Into New Centrifuge Machine in Near Future
Iran is preparing to inject uranium hexafluoride (UF6) into a brand new Iran-made centrifuge machine, known as IR8, in the near future, Deputy Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Asghar Zarean said. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Zarean emphasized that this development will increase Iran’s capability to enrich uranium, and remind world powers of how the nation’s […]
Honeywell Reduces Metropolis Workforce Due to Nuclear Industry Challenges
Honeywell is reducing production capacity and cutting 22 jobs at their Metropolis plant due to ongoing challenges in the nuclear industry. Honeywell issued a release Tuesday citing international challenges and an oversupply of uranium hexafluoride – or UF6 prompted the reduction. A portion of the plant’s contractor team will also be reduced. According to Honeywell […]
Uranium Participation Corporation Announces $19,250,000 Bought Deal Financing
Uranium Participation Corporation (TSX:U) (the “Company”) has today entered into an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters led by Cormark Securities Inc. pursuant to which the Underwriters have agreed to purchase on a bought deal basis 5,000,000 common shares of the Company (the “Shares”) at a price of $3.85 per Share, representing total gross proceeds […]
DOE Extends Contract to Operate Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Plants
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) today announced it is extending its contract for Operations of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Facilities at Paducah, Kentucky and Portsmouth, Ohio for a period of up to four months. The contract period for the current contractor, BWXT Conversion Services LLC (BWCS), […]
DOE Awards Contract for the Operation of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Facilities
Cincinnati — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of a contract to Mid-America Conversion Services, LLC for the Operation of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Facilities at Paducah, Kentucky and Portsmouth, Ohio. The contract includes cost-plus award fee and firm-fixed-price contract line items. The total value of the contract is $318,811,847, […]
Kazatomprom and ConverDyn launch joint uranium marketing initiative
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s national atomic company Kazatomprom and US’s ConverDyn have signed a cooperation agreement that provides a framework for the world’s largest uranium producer and the leading provider of UF6 conversion services to jointly offer uranium in the form of natural uranium hexafluoride (UF6) to global utilities, Kazatomprom said on April 4. UF6 […]
Piketon’s Heavy 60 Year Worker Death Toll, Radioactive Spills at one time ‘Routine’
A sixty year legacy of cancer and mutilation plagues the US nuclear program. It started with the Manhattan Project and the DOE still woos construction, security guards and others who will die as a result of their work. Although Jeff Wilburn and Charles Lawson’s vetted documents relate to the PGDP, there are cover ups nationwide […]
Report Underlines Recent Worker Hazards at Old Weapons Plants
The toxic morass that was America’s nuclear weapons complex is no secret. Hazardous conditions in places like the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Ohio moved Congress in 2000 to create a compensation program for former workers who developed illnesses that may have been caused by radiation or chemical exposures. The program, run by the US […]