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US DOE generated over 700,000 metric tons of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6)
U.S. Department of Energy Excess Uranium Inventory Management Plan December 16, 2008 Office of Nuclear Energy Excerpts: On March 11, 2008, Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman signed a policy statement [see Appendix A] on the management of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) excess uranium inventory (Policy Statement). This Policy Statement provides the framework […]
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Official: Iran ranks 7 in producing UF6
TEHRAN, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) — Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO) Deputy Mohammad Qannadi said on Sunday that Iran is ranked seventh among the countries producing Uranium Hexaflouride (UF6), Iran’s Official IRNA news agency reported. “There is a factory to produce UF6 in Iran,” Qannadi told IRNA. “UF6 gas plays a significant role in producing cycle […]
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Cameco layoffs finalized
PORT HOPE – Although the cuts are not as deep as initially projected, 51 Cameco Corporation employees were given layoff notices this week, effective immediately. Cameco spokesman Dough Prendergast said 43 hourly employees are now on temporary layoff and nine salaried employee positions have been permanently eliminated as of Dec. 10, after the UF6 plant […]
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Are Indian Nuclear Assets Safe?
Two of the crown jewels of the Indian nuclear program and a number of other sites that possibly house Indian nuclear material are a stone throw’s away from Mumbai, where ten young men infiltrated the city, patrolled its streets, killed India’s top antiterrorism official, and faced off hundreds of India’s elite soldiers for 60 hours. […]
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Lights out at Cameco UF6 plant
PORT HOPE – Cameco announced Friday morning it is suspending uranium hexafluoride (UF6) production at its Port Hope plant. The work stoppage is fueled by contract dispute between Cameco and its sole supplier of hydrofluoric acid (HF). Upon resuming production in September after a 14 month shutdown, Cameco was informed by it’s supplier that their […]
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Layoffs still likely: Cameco
The likelihood of layoffs at Cameco’s Port Hope uranium conversion facility is high but no final decisions have been made, Cameco communications specialist Doug Prendergast said yesterday. In a later interview on Tuesday, Cameco director of public and government affairs Bob Kelly said they still hold some “glimmer of hope” they will be able to […]
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The wrong sort of helping hand
The nuclear suppliers group (NSG) released a statement outlining its conditions for allowing the transfer of nuclear technology to India for use in IAEA safeguard facilities. According to the statement, the NSG “note(d) steps that India has voluntarily taken” to institute “a national export control system capable of effectively controlling transfers of multilaterally controlled… nuclear-related […]
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Iran rejects NY Times atom bomb report
Iran has rejected a New York Times report which claimed the country has produced enough nuclear material to make ‘a single atom bomb’. The latest UN nuclear watchdog report on Iran, released Wednesday, disclosed that the country had ‘produced approximately 630 kilograms [1,390 pounds] of low enriched UF6’. UF6 is used in the uranium enrichment […]
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Port Hope: Cameco UF6 plant could shut down
PORT HOPE – Due to a shortage of uranium fluoride (HF), production at Cameco’s Port Hope uranium hexaflouride (UF6) plant could grind to a halt by the end of the month. The total Port Hope operations employs over 450 people; however the number of people facing long-term temporary layoff is unknown at this time, said […]
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Andrews [Texas] on the Short List for $55 Million Facility
Andrews is one of only four sites in the nation on the short-list for a $55 million nuclear facility. It’s a state-of-the-art uranium de-conversion plant. What it does is takes radioactive material and turns it into usable products like high-purity fluorine gas. If it’s built in West Texas it could add as much as $50 […]
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