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UF6: Thiessen response to ATSDR’s Assessment on fluoride releases from Oak Ridge
On December 23, 2008, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) released the following document for public comment: Public Health Assessment for K-25 and S-50 Uranium Fluoride Releases Oak Ridge Reservation (USDOE) Oak Ridge, Roane County, Tennessee EPA Facility ID: TN1890090003 On February 20, 2009, Kathleen Thiessen submitted a public comment to ATSDR […]
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Liquid fluoride thorium reactors: The Aim HIgh program alternative to nuclear & coal
The Aim High program to make factory mass produced Liquid FLUORIDE thorium reactors to replace coal power worldwide Technical LFTR Advantages [Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactor] 1. LFTR has no refueling outages, with continuous refueling and continuous waste fission product removal. 2. It can change power output to satisfy demand, satisfying today’s need for both baseload […]
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Hydrogen fluoride leak at Oak Ridge Y-12 nuclear weapons plant
There was a leak at Y-12, after all (updated) It turns out there was a leak of hydrogen fluoride Monday at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant. A spokeswoman confirmed today that a “small amount” of material did escape from a roof-top test line at the plant’s 9212 production facility. “Further investigation into the potential hydrogen […]
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Russia: RUSAL converts Krasnoyarsk Aluminium Smelter to colloidal anode paste
UC RUSAL, the world’s largest aluminium and alumina producer, announces that it has completed the conversion of one pot room at its Krasnoyarsk Aluminium Smelter to the colloidal anode paste technology. The economic effect from this innovation at one pot room alone can be up to USD 1 million annually. The aluminium production technology using […]
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UF6: Nuclear future accelerating for the Permian Basin in Texas
ANDREWS — Andrews County is one of four locations in three states being considered by an Idaho-based company as potential sites for construction of a uranium processing and fluorine extraction plant. Andrews Economic Development Director Wesley Burnett confirmed that International Isotopes Inc. of Great Falls, Idaho is considering sites in Andrews County, Lea County, New […]
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Lanthanum fluoride: Plutonium found in safe at Hanford is historic
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UF6: Uranium nations urged not to sell to Iran: report
LONDON (Reuters) – Western powers believe Iran is running short of raw uranium for its nuclear program and are urging producer nations not to sell to Tehran, The Times reported Saturday. The British newspaper said Britain’s Foreign Office late last year ordered its diplomats in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Brazil — all major uranium producers — […]
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Port Hope, Canada: Cameco updates council on fluorine release
PORT HOPE – Cameco Corp. vented fluorine into the environment last fall, Port Hope council heard at its Jan. 20 meeting. On Sept. 27, the uranium hexafluoride (UF6) plant had a gasket failure in the cell room and fluorine was released, Rebecca Peters, superintendent of compliance and licensing at Cameco, told council during the third […]
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Do something with DU, says US watchdog
The US Department of Energy (DoE) has not done enough to find uses for the depleted uranium (DU) left over from uranium enrichment and should do more to avoid having to treat the entire inventory as waste, according to the department’s own internal watchdog. The DoE has an inventory of some 700,000 tonnes of uranium […]
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Fed study finds no public threat from Oak Ridge releases
A public health assessment by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry concluded there were “no public health hazards” from airborne releases at the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant (also known as the K-25 Site) and the early-era S-50 facility at the Oak Ridge site. The full report is available online [http://www.fluoridealert.org/oakridge.dec08.hra.pdf] and at […]
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