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A little learning, it is said, is a dangerous thing. That’s what happened to a policeman and his colleagues who balked at the idea of touching a sealed packet supposedly containing a cake of radioactive uranium.
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Despite clear and overwhelming opposition to development of uranium mining in New Brunswick, the provincial government is forging ahead with its plans to hold "information" sessions to "educate" citizens about the issue, an approach that is an insult to the intelligence of the electorate and reflects an arrogance in government that says "we know what's best for you even better than you do."
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BRATTLEBORO — The recent spate of advertisements promoting the electric power generated at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant as "clean and green" doesn't tell the true story, said two Native Americans whose native lands are severely affected by the nuclear power industry. Lorraine Rekmans, of the Northern Ojibwa people from Elliot Lake, Ontario, and Ian Zabarte, from Mercury, Nev., secretary of state of the Western Shoshone National Council, spoke in Brattleboro Monday night, their last stop in a weeklong visit to Vermont organized by the Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance and Citizens Awareness Network.
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Officials of the U.S. Energy Department toured the Atlas tailings cleanup site near Moab last week as deliberations continued on whether trucks or trains should be used to haul away the massive uranium waste pile. “Their number one priority is the safety of our community, which we support, of course” said Joette Langianese, a Grand County Council member who met with Energy Department officials.
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PORT HOPE - The burden of proof to determine whether past or present uranium exposure has negatively impacted residents’ health is the federal government’s responsibility, not that of a volunteer citizens’ group.
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FREDERICTON (CP) — Environmental groups in New Brunswick are calling for an immediate ban on uranium exploration and mining as companies continue staking large swaths of the province. Representatives of several conservation groups said Wednesday about 30 organizations, including church and farming groups, have signed a statement calling for a no-uranium mining policy, similar to moratoriums already in place in Nova Scotia and British Columbia.
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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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Plans for expansion of the Crow Butte uranium mine to a 2,100 acre near the cemetery north of Crawford will face additional scrutiny by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission as the result of a ruling released April 29. After considering issues raised at a January hearing in Chadron, a three member panel of NRC administrative law judges concluded that concerns about potential contamination of groundwater supplies and threats to human health raised by opponents of the mine expansion deserved further consideration and oral arguments.
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Over the past two weeks, for the first time, news was shared in Kuwait that sand that has been contaminated since the 1991 U.S. Coalition War in Kuwait has now been shipped to U.S. soil and is currently heading to Idaho. The sand’s contamination resulted from U.S. military vehicles and munitions combining in a combustive accident at the end of that war.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A uranium mining company contends a U.S Environmental Protection Agency ruling is stalling its plans to begin operations in northwest New Mexico. The EPA ruled last year that a 160-acre parcel near Church Rock is part of a dependent Indian community, therefore requiring that Hydro Resources Inc. obtain an underground injection control permit with the EPA, not the state of New Mexico.
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Ranchers and rural residents in northeast Wyoming say they've seen the brochure on how uranium producers perform in-situ leach mining. What they don't know is how it's going to work in their neighborhood, with the soils and aquifers under their homes. Some say they're also unsure about how reliable producers are when it comes to self-monitoring, and whether state regulators are prepared to properly oversee a pending rush on in-situ uranium mining in the state.
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DENVER (AP) - Federal judges in Denver say they're surprised the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued permits to allow a company to leach uranium out of an aquifer that supplies drinking water to thousands of Navajos in New Mexico. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Monday in a case brought by opponents of the mine.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A uranium mining company contends a U.S Environmental Protection Agency ruling is stalling its plans to begin operations in northwest New Mexico. The EPA ruled last year that a 160-acre parcel near Church Rock is part of a dependent Indian community, therefore requiring that Hydro Resources Inc. obtain an underground injection control permit with the EPA, not the state of New Mexico.
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VANCOUVER, May 9 /CNW/ - CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. (CVV-TSX.V) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that its winter drill programs at Cree Lake and Lake Athabasca and Key Lake Projects have now concluded. All samples for assay and trace element geochemistry are now at the laboratories and we awaiting analyses. The geochemical signatures of the intense alteration zones seen in drill cores at both the Cree Lake and Lake Athabasca projects are expected to detail the halo effect of uranium mineralization, as both programs found (small) localized zones of elevated uranium counts associated with hematite oxidation and zones of hydrothermal fluid flow.
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OTTAWA — Does Stephen Harper’s Conservative government have a hidden nuclear agenda? Not if you happen to live outside Canada. The Canadian government has been campaigning internationally for months to add this country to the small, tightly circumscribed club of nuclear enrichment states. But the diplomatic arm-twisting only came to light less than three weeks ago, when the United States announced it was dropping its insistence on a ban on uranium enrichment technology to non-nuclear states.
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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation says 21 years after agreeing to remove radioactive waste at the Western New York Nuclear Service Center in West Valley, the federal government has not met expectations. The state agency released a report May 7, saying the U.S. Department of Energy has yet to reach the first regulatory milepost -- the completion of a final environmental impact statement at the facility, which has been closed since 1975.
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WASHINGTON -- Some say a multibillion-dollar recycling center for nuclear waste would be an economic blessing for southern Ohio. Others see it as little more than a radioactive waste dump. But both sides agree on at least one thing: The Department of Energy initiative will not happen anytime soon on the grounds of the former uranium-enrichment plant in Piketon -- or perhaps anywhere else.
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Well, it has been a long, expensive, painful wait – about half a lifetime for many of us in southeast Utah. But on April 30, 2008, the Dennison Mill on White Mesa (six miles south of Blanding) officially began milling uranium ore. It is the first time that has happened in the United States in decades.
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Russia and the US have signed a key agreement on civilian nuclear power that formally allows nuclear trade between US and Russian companies. It will also allow them to widen technological co-operation in areas such as storing nuclear materials.
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With its Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) already facing resistance from Congress, the Bush administration has decided to leave to the next president key decisions affecting the domestic leg of the controversial program. Administration officials have claimed that GNEP, which seeks to develop new nuclear technologies and new international nuclear fuel arrangements, will cut nuclear waste and decrease the risk that an anticipated growth in the use of nuclear energy worldwide could spur nuclear proliferation.
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