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Port Hope: Cameco uranium conversion plant to stay closed until fix -regulator
Canada’s regulator for the nuclear industry said on Wednesday that it has asked Cameco Corp to idle its Port Hope uranium conversion plant, one of the western world’s few such facilities, after an unscheduled shutdown last week. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission told Cameco not to return the Ontario facility to operation until the commission […]
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Company Struggles to Keep U.S. in the Uranium Enrichment Game
EUNICE, N.M. — While the only American-owned company that enriches uranium prepares for bankruptcy, its competitor is zooming ahead with construction of what it describes as a cluster of far more economical and efficient new centrifuges. Urenco, a German-Dutch-British consortium that began producing here in 2010, is on its way to doubling its size, and […]
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Honeywell to pay penalty for hazardous chemical releases in Metropolis
CHICAGO – Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced Wednesday Honeywell International, Inc., has been ordered to pay a civil penalty of $90,000 following three dangerous releases of hydrogen fluoride at its Metropolis, Ill. plant. The company also completed a series of system upgrades as required by Madigan and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. “The dangerous air […]
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Y-12 Historian: Little known heroes of the nuclear age
The story of S-50, the thermal diffusion plant located adjacent to the world’s largest steam-powered electrical generating plant at the time, is often overlooked in the history of Oak Ridge. That this plant fed slightly enriched uranium into the K-25 gaseous diffusion process and ultimately the Y-12 Beta calutrons, shortening the war by approximately three […]
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From Russian warheads to megawatts
Uranium reprocessed for fuel in U.S. power plants went through Baltimore’s port A flatbed truck pulled away from the port of Baltimore last week carrying uranium once packed into nuclear warheads aimed at the United States. The shipment, bound for a processing plant in Kentucky, marked the end of a 20-year collaboration to convert weapons-grade […]
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Honeywell Metropolis Recalls Remaining Laid-Off Workers
Honeywell’s Metropolis plant is bringing back the remaining 11 workers on its recall list to meet its 2014 production targets. Plant Manager Jim Pritchett says the recall allows workers to get trained and recertified in time to support plant operations in January. Honeywell Metropolis is the only facility in the country that converts uranium ore into uranium hexafluoride, […]
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Global Laser Enrichment chosen for proposed future operations at Paducah Gaseous Diffusion plant site
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that it will open negotiations with Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) for the sale of the depleted uranium hexafluoride inventory. The Department determined that GLE offered the greatest benefit to the government among those who responded to a Request for Offers (RFO) released earlier this year. Through […]
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Burning truck hauling nuclear load flies under radar
Nuclear regulators were never notified of a fire on board a truck hauling a radioactive cargo from Canada to the U.S. Late on the night of Aug. 22, Brian and Alexis Hanson found themselves on the busy I-75 highway near Troy, Ohio in a flaming truck with a radioactive cargo. The story has a safe […]
United States, Ohio Nuclear Industry -
License Amendment Request for Closure of Calcium Fluoride Ponds at Honeywell Metropolis Works, Honeywell International, Inc.
ACTION: Notice of availability of environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact. Sep 27, 2013 (Menafn – FIND, Inc. via COMTEX) –SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering the issuance of a license amendment to Source Materials License SUA-526 issued to Honeywell International, Inc. (Honeywell) for its Metropolis Works Facility (MWF) in […]
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New Mexico: Funds shortage delays uranium plant
International Isotopes Inc.’s construction of a first-of-its-kind depleted uranium deconversion plant just west of Hobbs will be delayed because of a shortage of funding for the $125 million project, the company acknowledged Friday. But the Idaho-based firm remains committed to building the facility, which is expected to employ 300 construction workers and create 130-150 permanent […]
United States, New Mexico Nuclear Industry