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Nuclear Spin - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 18 Jul 08
     
    The Nuclear Spin site is based on a Wiki system, such as Wikipedia (http://www.Wikipedia.org) and Sourcewatch (http://www.Sourcewatch.org). These websites are open access Wikis, whereas NuclearSpin is a closed Wiki. This is to maintain some level of editorial control and to prevent acts of online vandalism. If you want to become involved in an editorial role with Nuclear Spin please email editor@nuclearspin.org. You will need to register with SpinWatch before getting access. This can be done here through the same email address. If you want more information on how Wikis work, go to the help page which can be accessed here
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Is It Time to Restart the Uranium Industry in the U.S.?: Scientific American - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 06 Jul 10 - Cached
  • FRESH FUEL: A proposal to build a uranium mill in Pi�on Ridge, CO, the nation's first mill in 25 years, could provide new jobs and economic benefits, but may also cause health and environmental impacts, experts say.WikimediaCommons/Alberto Otero Garc aArticleImages = new Array; aArticleImages[0] = new Object; aArticleImages[0].title = "FRESH FUEL:"; aArticleImages[0].caption = "A proposal to build a uranium mill in Pi�on Ridge, CO, the nation\'s first mill in 25 years, could provide new jobs and economic benefits, but may also cause health and environmental impacts, experts say."; aArticleImages[0].credit = "WikimediaCommons/Alberto Otero Garc"; aArticleImages[0].url = "http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ranger_Uranium_Mine.jpg"; aArticleImages[0].alt = ""; aArticleImages[0].src = "/media/inline/is-it-time-to-restart-the-uranium-industry-in-the-us_1.jpg"; aArticleImages[0].thisImageNumber = "1"; .atools_holder {border:#e4e0dd 1px solid; width:78px; background-color:#e4e0dd; color:#999; text-align:center; margin:0 0 5px 5px;} .atools_holder {text-align:-moz-center} .atools {width:98%; padding:3px 1px 0 0} .atools {text-align:-moz-center} .atools img {margin-bottom:5px; display:block;} .badge {padding: 2px; background-color:#fff; width:54px;margin-bottom:3px; left: 50%;} #atools_sponsor {width:88px;} #atools_sponsor span {font-size:8px !important; color:#999; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important; text-align:center} var newURL = ""; newURL = location.href.replace(/&[e|s]c=[A-Za-z0-9_]{2,15}/,''); //strip ec or sc codes newURL = newURL.replace(/&page=[0-9]{1,2}/,''); //strip pagination from articles newURL = newURL.replace(/&SID=mail/,''); //strip SID from mailarticle feature var newTitle = document.title; //alert(newURL) digg_url = newURL; 0diggsdigg stumble_url = newURL;
  • Energy Net on 06 Jul 10
     
    "In Colorado's far western reaches is a valley called Paradox. Unlike most, it is cut crosswise through the middle. The Dolores River runs perpendicular through it, creating a geologic anomaly that is also the valley's namesake. Brilliant orange cliffs cradle the valley floor under the white gaze of Utah's La Sal Mountains. Sagebrush plains and irrigated hay fields are broken only by herds of cows and the tiny hamlets of Bedrock and Paradox. Within the region's perplexing geology run rich veins of uranium, fuel for the nation's incipient nuclear renaissance. A proposal to build the nation's first uranium mill in 25 years has divided the community there between those who see good jobs and a stable economy and neighbors fearful of uranium's history of health impacts, environmental harm and unstable prices. Both sides recognize that the proposed Piñon Ridge uranium mill - fed by ore from up to 41 nearby mines - could transform this quiet corner of Colorado into the fountainhead of the nuclear fuel industry."
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Tomgram: Chip Ward, Uranium Frenzy in the West - 0 views

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  • In Colorado last year, 10,730 uranium mining claims were filed, up from 120 five years ago. More than 6,000 new claims have been staked in southeast Utah.
  • From 1946 into the late 1970s, more than 40 million tons of uranium ore was mined near Navajo communities.
  • For every 4 pounds of uranium extracted, 996 pounds of radioactive refuse was left behind in waste pits and piles swept by the wind and leached into local drinking water.
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  • Navajo children living near the mines and mills suffered five times the rate of bone cancer and 15 times the rate of testicular and ovarian cancers as other Americans.
  • Hydro Resources Inc. (HRI) is trying to open four major mines near the Navajo communities of Crownpoint and Churchrock
  • At just such an operation in Grover, Colorado, groundwater radioactivity was found to be 15 times greater than before mining began.
  • Claims for the right to mine within five miles of Grand Canyon National Park, for example, have jumped from 10 in 2003 to 1,100 today.
  • Powertech Uranium Corporation is opening a mine just ten miles from the sprawling city of Fort Collins, home of Colorado State University.
  • Phelps Dodge, recently acquired the mineral rights to national forest land in Colorado for just over $100,000. The company expects to extract $9 billion in molybdenum from the land
  • To add insult to injury, the Act makes taxpayers responsible for any clean-up of the land after the mining companies are through extracting its mineral wealth.
  • A massive uranium tailings pile between Arches National Park and Moab sits right beside the Colorado River, leaking radioactive and toxic debris into water that is eventually used for agriculture and drinking by 30 million people downstream in Arizona, Nevada, and California. Because one enormous flashflood could wash tons of that radioactive milling waste into the river, a $300 million federal clean-up is underway. Taxpayers will pay for 16 million tons of uranium milling waste to be moved away from the river.
  • In Colorado, 37 cities and towns depend on drinking water that exceeds federal levels for uranium and its associated nuclides. It would take an estimated $50 billion to clean up all the abandoned mines and processing sites in the West
  • Energy Net on 14 Sep 08
     
    A few years ago, Ward wrote for Tomdispatch about various plans to dump radioactive waste, including 40 years worth of "spent fuel rods" from nuclear reactors, in his Utah backyard. People who lived downwind were alarmed. They had been exposed to radioactive fallout during the era of atomic testing in the 1950s and feared more of the same -- cancer for "downwinders" and obfuscation and denial from federal regulators. Since Ward wrote his account, local activists have successfully blocked the projects. Score one for the little guys.
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Radiation effects from Fukushima I nuclear accidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 21 May 11
     
    "The radiation effects from the Fukushima I nuclear accidents are the results of release of radioactive isotopes from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The total amount of iodine-131 and caesium-137 released into the atmosphere has been estimated to exceed 10% of the emissions from the Chernobyl accident.[1][2] Large amounts on radioactive isotopes have also been released into the Pacific Ocean. The accidents were rated at level 7 rating on the International Nuclear Event Scale."
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