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Depressing outlook for uranium sales: AREVA cuts back production

Waiting for Uranium Prices to Rise, By Melissa Pistilli Uranium Investing News, 15 March.2010, AREVA May Cut Production Depressing uranium prices have forced French uranium miner AREVA to plan a review of its projects, which may lead to a 20 per cent cut in its 2012 output target.

Last September, the company pegged its 2012 production number at 12,000 tonnes of U308, but now says uranium prices are too low to make production costs economical. Continue reading →

March 16, 2010 Posted by | business and costs, France | , , , , | Leave a comment

University Students Set Up Virtual Nuclear Weapons Forum

learn more, please visit the world forum on the future of nuclear weapons, http://eagle.webster.edu/TheGlobalForum/   launched by Webster University students

Nuclear Nemesis, Civil Religion | By Rosan Yoshida,  Post-Dispatch 16 March 2010, The entire earth ecology faces imminent inferno. We may evaporate instantaneously, be burned skinless in the nuclear blast, or be irradiated incessantly, inside and out, succumbing to dust in a nuclear winter.We are at the critical point: either we abolish nukes or nukes abolish us. Continue reading →

March 16, 2010 Posted by | general | , , | Leave a comment

Human error caused nuke submarine to crash

Nuclear submarine crashed after commander misread number Headline Uk News,  March 15th, 2010 The commander of a nuclear submarine has admitted his vessel crashed into a rock because he misread a number one for a seven on a chart.

Nuclear submarine crashed after commander misread number

March 16, 2010 Posted by | safety, UK | , , , , | Leave a comment

Pricewaterhouse Coopers’ Spin on Nuclear power refuted

PricewaterhouseCoopers avoid the details on nuclear power,  Nuclear Reaction , 16 March 2010, PricewaterhouseCoopers have released a report, Resurgence of nuclear power, which talks about how the ‘utilities around the world are realizing the great promise of new nuclear power plants and making investments today’ and offers ‘key considerations as the nuclear option is re-introduced’. It paints an extraordinarily glowing picture of the upcoming nuclear ‘renaissance’.It doesn’t mention nuclear waste once. The safety concerns around nuclear power have been ‘refuted’.

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March 16, 2010 Posted by | 2 WORLD, spinbuster | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment