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A PARTIAL solution to Britain’s future energy needs could be found in the stockpile of thousands of tonnes of uranium at Capenhurst. Britain’s stockpile of uranium and plutonium is the equivalent of 2.6 billion barrels of oil with enough energy to power three nuclear reactors for 60 years – one of which would serve the needs of Liverpool.
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In a breakthrough for the WA anti-uranium movement, Premier Alan Carpenter has promised to legislate to ban uranium mining in the state if his government is re-elected at the September 6 state poll. The announcement is a policy reversal: while having maintained a ban through Carpenter’s personal opposition to uranium, the WA ALP voted in April against a Greens-initiated bill to ban its mining.
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The leader of the Greens Party says the prospect of a uranium mine going ahead near Alice Springs is a vote-changing issue for central Australians in the Northern Territory election. The Greens have candidates in six of the 25 seats across the Territory for next Saturday's election.
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Australia on Friday said it will support the safeguards agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and India, but has reaffirmed that it will not sell uranium to India or any other country that is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). "After careful consideration, the Australian government has formed the view that the safeguards agreement is a positive step which will strengthen nuclear non-proliferation efforts and is consistent with the non-proliferation objectives of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty," Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said in a statement here.
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The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission will receive comments until October 7 on a generic draft environmental impact statement for in-situ leach uranium recovery operations. NRC said it developed the draft EIS jointly with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality. The draft EIS would apply to at least four western states -- Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska and New Mexico -- where NRC said uranium milling companies have indicated an interest in seeking NRC licenses.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), with the cooperation of the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, Land Quality Division, is issuing for public comment a Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement (Draft GEIS) that identifies and evaluates on a programmatic basis, the potential environmental impacts from the construction, operation, aquifer restoration, and decommissioning at in-situ leach (ISL) uranium milling facilities located in particular regions of the western United States. The Draft GEIS addresses environmental issues common to ISL milling facilities to aid in making more efficient environmental reviews of individual site-specific ISL license applications.
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URANIUM miners are lifting pressure on the Queensland and Western Australian governments to drop a uranium mining ban - but both governments won't budge. The world's nuclear energy sector has snared a new lease of life and many countries are using or looking to use nuclear energy as a way to curb power-station emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases.
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A legislative provision that would have linked US import limits on Russian low-enriched uranium to additional downblending of Russian high-enriched uranium was not included in a funding bill passed by the House of Representatives late Thursday. The provision, which was written by Pete Domenici, a Republican senator from New Mexico, was included in the Senate version of the bill.
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City council called last night for the province to suspend uranium exploration -- the same day the provincial government announced it would build two new nuclear reactors at its Darlington station. John Kittle, with the Community Coalition Against Mining Uranium, urged council to pass the resolution calling for the moratorium. Allowing mining companies to explore for uranium in Ontario watersheds is a recipe for disaster, Kittle said.
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CAÑON CITY - An eighthour hearing Tuesday wasn't long enough for Fremont County commissioners to rule on a request to drill for uranium in the northwest part of the county. After hearing comments from more than 70 people, the board delayed a vote until June 9 on the permit request by Australia-based Black Range Minerals.
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Andy Thorne, general manager of Cameco Corp.'s Port Hope conversion facility, provided an update on the contamination situation to about 80 Port Hope residents Monday, similar to the one provided to Port Hope council last Tuesday. Yellow staining was observed in the bottom of excavation pit in the UF6 building on July 13, 2007, and Cameco halted production six days later, once it was discovered the contamination was more widespread than originally thought.
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North Dakota regulators are holding a public hearing in Bismarck today on proposed new rules on uranium mining. Some companies are exploring for uranium in southwestern North Dakota. Department of Mineral Resources director Lynn Helms says it`s important to have updated rules in place to regulate any new mining.
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The chief executive officer of Alice Springs' native title body says traditional owners should not support a uranium mine south of the town. Darryl Pearce from Lhere Artepe says Aboriginal people would prefer to see solar technology projects instead of uranium mines.
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The case for nuclear power as a low carbon energy source to replace fossil fuels has been challenged in a new report by Australian academics. It suggests greenhouse emissions from the mining of uranium - on which nuclear power relies - are on the rise.
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It is all too easy for a politician to claim a 'silent majority' supports him, but for it to be even half-way credible, some evidence to support the claim is needed, and New Brunswick Natural Resources Minister Donald Arseneault's claim about uranium exploration and mining is, frankly, ludicrous and without basis. Caption The claim smacks of political desperation equalled only by the minister's arrogant contention that all that is really needed is "to educate the public."
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FREDERICTON - Natural Resources Minister Donald Arseneault isn't backing down from his position that uranium exploration doesn't pose any dangers, despite British Columbia's recent decision to ban exploration of the element. "Every jurisdiction has its own premise on why they should go in a certain direction or not, and it's no different for New Brunswick," said Arseneault.
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Although a dozen years have elapsed since any new nuclear power reactor has come online in the U.S., there are now stirrings of a nuclear renaissance. The incentives are certainly in place: the costs of natural gas and oil have skyrocketed; the public increasingly objects to the greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels; and the federal government has offered up to $8 billion in subsidies and insurance against delays in licensing (with new laws to streamline the process) and $18.5 billion in loan guarantees. What more could the moribund nuclear power industry possibly want?
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The price of uranium is skyrocketing, and we're a have-not province with aspirations of self-sufficiency and a government apparently willing to make major changes to achieve that goal. This gives New Brunswickers two big problems to consider. The first problem with the speculation about uranium mining in New Brunswick is environmental. It's no good to start exporting uranium if there's a risk you'd have to start importing water, environment contaminant clean-up service providers, and oncologists. No provincial government should be so blinded by a quick buck as to sell out a crucial parcel of the province permanently. (For all practical considerations, one should never consider a radioactive half-life of 4.5 billion years as anything less than permanent.)
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