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[Note from FAN: The yellowcake will be converted into uranium hexafluoride (UF6) at the Cameco Port Hope facility.] Canada is the new home to a massive stockpile of concentrated natural uranium from Iraq, the last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program. The 550 tonnes of “yellowcake,” the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment, was […]
ALL AMOUNTS ARE STATED IN CDN $ Cameco Corporation (TSX: CCO) (NYSE: CCJ) announced today it is joining a uranium enrichment business venture in the United States, which will extend the company’s involvement in the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle beyond its current position as the world’s largest uranium producer and a leading […]
OTTAWA — Cameco, the world’s largest uranium producer, has told the Canadian nuclear regulator that its refinery might have leaked uranium, arsenic and fluorides into Lake Ontario. The plant at Port Hope, Ontario, across the lake from Rochester and down the shore from Toronto, first refined uranium for the Manhattan Project during World War II. […]
PORT HOPE – Cameco has the green light to move ahead with repairs and upgrades at its uranium hexafluoride (UF6) plant, said a senior company official. On Jan. 28, Andy Oliver, vice-president of Cameco’s fuel services division, announced the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has granted permission for the company to move forward with corrective […]
Note: this is an excerpt from the Petition: The Port Hope Community Health Concerns Committee (PHCHCC) is an incorporated non-profit organization of current and former residents concerned about health issues relating to the operations and potential health and environmental impacts of two nuclear industries in our community and the presence of radioactive and heavy metal […]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 13 (AScribe Newswire) — Chemists at the University of Virginia have prepared the first uranium methylidyne molecule ever reported, despite the reactivity of uranium atoms with other molecules. This new molecule is a hydrocarbon containing a uranium-carbon triple-bond. Their finding, which contributes to chemists’ fundamental understanding of uranium chemistry, is reported in […]
The government’s toxic-waste incinerator in Oak Ridge burned about 1.4 million pounds of waste in fiscal 2007, which concluded Sept. 30. The incinerator will be shut down soon for its annual maintenance period. Dennis Hill of Bechtel Jacobs Co., the Department of Energy’s cleanup manager, said the plan is to shut down the incinerator until […]
OAK RIDGE — The long-delayed cleanup work at the Molten Salt Reactor will resume in September, a Department of Energy spokesman said Friday. Virtually no work has been done at the old reactor for the past year and a half because of persistent problems, including a fluorine leak in May 2006 and subsequent allegations that […]
An environmental-impact assessment was under way for the proposed R500-million hydrofluoric acid (HF) project, earmarked for Richards Bay, Vergenoeg fluorspar mine GM Dennis Cooke told Mining Weekly Online on Tuesday. Cooke said that the HF project was an import-substitution initiative that would require 70 000 t of fluorspar a year. The tonnage of fluorspar would, […]
TEHRAN, May.20 (ISNA)-Deputy of UCF exploitation and education enterprise in Isfahan acknowledged that Iran had obtained the technology to build UCF factories. Speaking to ISNA at the sideline of the Applied Nuclear Technology fair in Hamedan province, Hamid Reza Mohajerani stated that after the refusal of nuclear countries to cooperate with Iran, the country had […]