Excerpts from: Record of Proceeding, Including Reasons for Decision In the Matter of Cameco Corporation Subject: Application to Renew the Class 1 B Nuclear Fuel Facility Operating Licence for the Conversion Facility Located in Port Hope, Ontario Hearing Dates: October 4 and November 28 and 29, 2006 Date of Decision: November 29, 2006 Date of […]
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announced today its decision to renew the Nuclear Fuel Facility Operating Licence for Cameco Corporation’s facility located in Port Hope, Ontario. This decision was made following a 2-day public hearing held on October 4, 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario and November 28 and 29, 2006, in Port Hope, Ontario. The […]
The government has transferred nearly 120 million pounds of depleted uranium from a processing plant in Tennessee to a southern Ohio facility, three years ahead of schedule and within budget. The uranium hexafluoride was left over from the government’s uranium enrichment process for nuclear weapons and fuel at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Operations ended […]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 – The Bush administration and three European allies have approved a new offer to be made to Iran in a last-ditch effort to head off a confrontation over its suspected nuclear weapons program. The proposal would permit Iran to conduct very limited nuclear activities on its own soil, but would move the […]
For four years, Clive Motha has wanted to know why his son Victor collapsed in the dining room of their Mamelodi house. Now there is an inquiry into Victor’s death. But more than a month after the investigation was announced, Motha hasn’t even heard from the investigators. In fact, he learnt about the investigation only […]
ARCO – A hazardous gas leak Thursday afternoon led to an evacuation and temporary shut down at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. Although most of the site remained open, a 400-meter area around the incident’s location was secured and evacuated, an official said. “All personnel in the area have been accounted for. There […]
The network led by the Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan shipped partly enriched uranium directly to Libya aboard a Pakistani airplane in 2001, providing the fuel stock in addition to the designs and technology to make a nuclear bomb, according to a report by Malaysian investigators released Friday. The report provides a wealth of […]
METROPOLIS, Ill. – Human error caused a radioactive gas leak from a nuclear fuel plant, sending four to hospitals and causing one nearby resident reddened skin and lung exposure, according to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission report. The Dec. 22 leak from the Honeywell International plant released seven pounds of uranium hexafluoride gas that rose 86 […]
METROPOLIS — Authorities have not yet determined the cause of a leak that released radioactive gas from the Honeywell International nuclear fuel processing plant in Metropolis which sent four residents to the hospital early Monday morning. No workers at the plant were injured. Luis A. Reyes, administrator of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s regional office in […]
PADUCAH, Ky. — James “Smoothy” Wilkerson is thankful for his $150,000 share of the more than $110 million paid to compensate sick Paducah nuclear workers. He’s even happier that a tiny tumor in his right lung was detected early by a scanner that sees lung images as thin as paper. Wilkerson, 72, of South Fulton, […]
