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Is Iran Running Out of Uranium?
Western governments may be scrambling to push through tougher international sanctions against Iran, but the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program may be facing a more immediate hurdle: How to replenish its dwindling uranium stocks. Iran’s need to find fresh supplies of raw uranium supplies is increasingly urgent, according to some reports. That may be one reason […]
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UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Storage for UF6 (“hex”) tails
Storage Strategy for NDA Owned Uranium Hexafluoride Tails 2010 1. Storage of uranium hexafluoride (hex) tails will only be on licensed sites. 2. Storage will continue to meet or exceed UK safety and environmental standards and criteria. Storage parameters will be managed, so far as reasonable practicable, to minimise the degradation of primary containment. The […]
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Thorium plants cooled with molten fluoride salt
Excerpt: ” … Thorium plants cooled with molten fluoride salt would leave a fraction of the nuclear waste compared to the uranium-fueled, water-cooled plants in use today. In addition, thorium plants can’t melt down and don’t produce reliable fuel for bombs. …” Click here to read full article Print PDF
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North Carolina: Incomplete documents lead to partial shutdown at Global Nuclear Fuel
Excerpt: …The company, which is majority owned by GE, said documents related to the safe handling of hydrofluoric material were found to be incomplete Monday, which led to the shutdown of operations using the material Tuesday morning… Click here to read full article Print PDF
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Port Hope, Ontario, Canada: Fluoride contamination released through Cameco HVAC system
PORT HOPE — Elevated fluoride contamination from Cameco Fuel Manufacturing in September was caused by several small procedural incidents which were released to the surrounding air through the facility’s heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system, said a company spokeswoman. “We have investigated the reason behind the events and are confident we have identified the underlying […]
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How uranium becomes a nuclear bomb
Uranium exists in several forms, or isotopes, only one of which can sustain the energy-releasing chain reaction that makes the element so powerful. The isotope of interest to nuclear engineers is known as U-235. This makes up less than 1 per cent of naturally occurring uranium. The heavier, more stable – and thus less useful […]
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Port Hope, Ontario, Canada: High Cameco emissions reading reported
-Criteria on ambient air quality by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MoE) is set at 40 micrograms of fluoride per 100 square centimetres over a period of 30 days, but Cameco’s Port Hope conversion facility exceeded that by 18 points in the third quarter, Rebecca Peters, superintendent of compliance and licensing, told Port Hope […]
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Uncleaned Swedish container led to exposure
An investigation has been launched into how a uranium hexafluoride shipping container was sent from a Swedish fuel facility without having been completely emptied and cleaned. A Urenco employee in Germany was exposed to the material on opening the container. The exposure occurred on 21 January at Urenco’s uranium enrichment plant in Gronau, Germany. Urenco […]
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Russia: Ship carrying nuclear waste arrives in St. Petersburg
A ship carrying 650 tons of uranium waste arrived in Russia’s second largest city, St. Petersburg, Greenpeace said on Monday. The dangerous cargo of uranium hexafluoride (UF6), which belongs to the French nuclear energy group Areva, was then loaded onto railway cars to be transported to the Siberian Chemical Combine in the Tomsk region, the […]
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Russia: Depleted uranium hexafluoride dump still a toxic issue for Angarsk
Part of: Import of uranium tailings A public hearing in the Siberian city of Angarsk, the reluctant hometown of a uranium enrichment enterprise, was another testament to the nuclear industry’s endless foot-dragging over unsafe practices of storing radioactive waste. City authorities rejected the plant’s proposal to leave its uranium tails storage facility on Angarsk’s territory, […]
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