Babcock & Wilcox Conversion Services (BWCS), has been awarded a five year, $428 million contract to deconvert depleted uranium hexafluoride from America’s Paducah and Portsmouth enrichment facilities. The limited liability company BWCS, made up from Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Group (B&W TSG) and consulting company URS, has been purpose-formed to manage the contract using […]
Idaho-based International Isotopes Inc., which is building a $93 million uranium deconversion and fluorine extraction facility near Hobbs, N.M., has purchased approximately 1,200 metric tons of depleted uranium materials from LATA/Parallax Portsmouth LLC, a U.S. Department of Energy remediation contractor. According to a news release, the sale will save DOE approximately $1.9 million in future […]
Note from Fluoride Action Network: This article provides a clear explanation and graphic of “the series of industrial processes which involve the production of electricity from uranium in nuclear power reactors.” Here are some excerpts: CONVERSION AND ENRICHMENT The uranium oxide product of a uranium mill is not directly usable as a fuel for a […]
Note from Fluoride Action Network: As with the article on The Nuclear Fuel Cycle this article provides a clear explanation and graphics on uranium enrichment. Here are some excerpts: • Most of the 495 commercial nuclear power reactors operating or under construction in the world today require uranium ‘enriched’ in the U-235 isotope for their […]
Union workers at the nation’s only uranium conversion plant, in Metropolis, Ill., have erected 42 crosses nearby in memory of workers who died of cancer. Twenty-seven smaller crosses symbolize workers who have survived the disease. The memorial is a fitting backdrop for the contentious labor dispute that has shaken Metropolis — the self-proclaimed hometown of […]
65 years ago, US army general Leslie Groves came to Tonawanda, the year was 1940. The spring of that year I was fishing at the foot of Sheridan Dr. with my Dad. It was Blue Pike Run time. I was 8 years old and old enough to experience wars realities and fears. All one needed […]
The penalty against B&W Nuclear Operations Group of Lynchburg, Va., is based on its alleged failure to have adequate instructions telling workers how to neutralize acid spills. The staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered B&W Nuclear Operations Group of Lynchburg, Va., to pay a $32,500 civil penalty for its alleged failure to […]
METROPOLIS, Ill. — Honeywell officials are saying little about it and investigators are saying less, but a federal grand jury reportedly is probing apparent problems with hazardous waste storage at the company’s Metropolis Works Plant. The industrial facility on the outskirts of Metropolis manufactures a line of fluorine products, including uranium hexafluoride, UF6, for nuclear […]
The last 48 hours have brought us the announcement of a third party enrichment deal for Iran as well as a US claim that a deal is now in place for new sanctions against Iran. But how big is this uranium stockpile we’re constantly hearing about, and what is “breakout capability” the war party is […]
Siberian Chemical Company’s (SCC) sublimate plant, located in the closed administrative and territorial entity Seversk, has launched a new technological line to process raw uranium materials and produce raw uranium hexafluoride, mother company TVEL reports. Investment in the project has yet to be disclosed. The line construction started at the plant in 2006, the firm […]
