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Future of uranium industry not so sure

“Right now, there’s a lot of speculation, but exactly how large demand will grow, no one knows.”

Two companies push Uranium mining in region By GARY HARMON/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel December 27, 2009 Two major international suppliers of uranium, meanwhile, are out of commission temporarily and possibly permanently. The Cigar Lake Mine in Canada flooded, and the Olympic Dam Mine in Australia is out of production because of a shaft accident…………………

How quickly the uranium industry is sparked back to life will depend on a variety of factors, from the difficulty and cost of finding and milling it to demand for nuclear power. Continue reading →

December 30, 2009 Posted by | business and costs, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

Anxiety in France about nuclear industry’s future

French nuclear sector re-thinks strategy after UAE setback Sydney Morning Herald December 30, 2009 The French nuclear power sector is to re-focus its strategy, notably in Britain and the United States, after losing out to a South Korean consortium on a $US20.4 billion ($A22.99 billion) project in the United Arab Emirates……….. Continue reading →

December 30, 2009 Posted by | business and costs, France | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Successful anti-uranium protest rubbished by mining interests

“the doctor thing usually wears a bit thin” “This is strictly a fear campaign. The doctors probably have cottages near the site and don’t want to be bothered.”

Canadian uranium news for December 2009  Idaho Samizdat nuke notes 29 Dec 09 ” ………….…protest by 23 area physicians who threatened to leave the area. They said a drilling exploration project being operated by Terra Ventures (CVE:TAS) at Lake Kachiwiss 13 km from the town of Sept-lles was a threat to drinking water supplies.

The site is 900 km northwest of Montreal.Marc Fafard, a spokesman for the uranium protest group, said his organization feels a national referendum on uranium mining is the only way to get attention to their issues. Getting one on the ballot he said means “the government will no longer be able to ignore us.”Fafard has been active for some time in his cause to stop uranium exploration in Quebec. Continue reading →

December 30, 2009 Posted by | Canada, spinbuster | , , | Leave a comment

USA govt funds for nuclear, but nuke lobby still wants $100 billion more!

The nuclear trade group has called for $100 billion in additional loan guarantees for low carbon energy sources to help support replacing aging reactors

U.S. Loans to Boost Nuclear Industry Seen Soon abc News By Ayesha Rascoe December 28, 2009

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration is poised to announce loan guarantees to help kick-start the country’s nuclear power industry, which hasn’t built a new plant in more than three decades. Continue reading →

December 29, 2009 Posted by | politics, USA | , , | Leave a comment

Depleted uranium in Utah brings regulation problem

depleted uranium, a by-product of nuclear fuel enrichment and bomb-making that has the unusual quality of becoming more hazardous over time.

Depleted uranium train arrives at Utah site/ OPEN YOUR EYES NEWS Salt Lake Tribune 29 Dec 09 – EnergySolutions Inc. opened its gates Sunday night to the latest shipment of depleted uranium from the Savannah River cleanup site in South Carolina. But the waste won’t be buried just yet, under an agreement between Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and the U.S. Energy Department. Continue reading →

December 29, 2009 Posted by | USA, wastes | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Attempt to protect Colorado River from 16 million tons of uranium tailings

16 million tons of uranium mill tailings moving away from Colorado River site By GARY HARMON/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel December 27, 200
“………About 630,000 tons will have been moved from Moab to the disposal cell near Crescent Junction by year’s end, said Wendee Ryan of the U.S. Department of Energy. The Energy Department and its contractor, Energy Solutions Corp., began moving the tailings pile this year. Continue reading →

December 29, 2009 Posted by | environment, USA | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

India’s nuclear program in trouble about lack of insurance

All property insurance covers exclude losses due to nuclear reaction, nuclear radiation or radioactive contamination.

Irda sounds out insurers on nuclear accident cover The Economic Times 29 Dec 2009, Hema Ramakrishnan & Mayur Shetty, ET Bureau NEW DELHI|MUMBAI: A year after private nuclear plants became a possibility in India following the Indo-US nuclear deal, the insurance regulator is deliberating with companies to cover liabilities arising out of deliberating with companies to cover liabilities arising out of nuclear accidents, which is essential for such plants… Continue reading →

December 29, 2009 Posted by | business and costs, India | , , | Leave a comment

India will not ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Nuclear deal unlikely as Japan sounds CTBT alert India Times 28 Dec 09 Nuclear deal unlikely as Japan sounds CTBT alert28 Dec 2009, 2011 NEW DELHI: A day before leaders of India and Japan hold talks, the prospects of a civil nuclear deal between the two countries receded as a Japanese official Monday urged New Delhi to sign and ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. “Japan hopes that India will sign and ratify the CTBT,” Kazuo Kodama, press secretary with Japan’s ministry of foreign affairs, told reporters here.
He was responding to a question on the prospects of Japan supplying civil nuclear technology to India.
Nuclear deal unlikely as Japan sounds CTBT alert- Politics/Nation-News-The Economic Times

December 29, 2009 Posted by | India, weapons and war | , , | Leave a comment

India soon to get nuclear submarine

India step closer to getting N-sub
THE TIMES OF INDIA 28 Dec 09 NEW DELHI: India got closer to deploying a nuclear-powered submarine by mid-2010 after the Russian Navy formally inducted the Akula-II class attack submarine `K-152 Nerpa’ on Monday. The over 12,000-tonne Nerpa is to be leased to Indian Navy for a 10-year period under a secret contract inked between India and Russia,………….. Acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines armed with nuclear-tipped missiles is critical for India to fulfil its long-standing quest to have a viable nuclear weapon triad — the capability to fire nukes from the air, land and sea.

India step closer to getting N-sub – India – The Times of India

December 29, 2009 Posted by | India, weapons and war | , , | Leave a comment

Pakistan’s secret help to North Korea’s nuclear weapons program

Khan adds to nuclear intrigue Sydney Morning Herald JEFFREY SMITH AND JOBY WARRICK December 29, 2009 NORTH KOREA has built a plant to manufacture a gas needed for uranium enrichment, according to a previously unpublicised account by the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb program, Abdul Qadeer Khan.It is a development that indicates Pyongyang opened a second way to build nuclear weapons as early as the 1990s.Dr Khan also said North Korea might have been enriching uranium on a small scale by 2002, with ”maybe 3000 or even more” centrifuges, and that Pakistan helped the country with vital machinery, drawings and technical advice for at least six years. Continue reading →

December 29, 2009 Posted by | Pakistan, secrets,lies and civil liberties | , , , | Leave a comment

Nuclear Pakistan at risk from sectarian strife

Threat of sectarian strife adds to nuclear-armed Pakistan’s woes World AP  28 Dec 09 “…………..The fourth attack on Pakistan’s Shiite minority in recent days fueled fears that a sectarian conflict alongside the nuclear-armed country’s battle with the Pakistani Taliban and other Sunni Muslim extremist groups could topple Zardari’s fragile civilian government, which was elected last year after eight years of military-led rule……………..”

Threat of sectarian strife adds to nuclear-armed Pakistan’s woes – World AP – MiamiHerald.com

December 29, 2009 Posted by | Pakistan, safety | , , | Leave a comment

Israel pondering about nuking Iran’s nuke sites?

Israel says regular bomb cannot destroy Iran’s nuclear facility  http://www.chinaview.cn 2009-12-28   JERUSALEM, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday that Iran’s newly-disclosed nuclear facility near Qom can withstand regular bombs. “The facility in Qom is in a bunker and therefore resistant to regular bombs,” local daily Haaretz quoted Barak as speaking to the Knesset (Israeli parliament) Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee………………. Continue reading →

December 29, 2009 Posted by | Israel, weapons and war | , , | Leave a comment

Aging nuclear power plant too costly to clean up

Potential for another meltdown? Nuclear Reaction 29 Dec 09 Debate over the future of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant has developed into a complex game of chicken between executives with Entergy Nuclear Vermont and Democratic leaders of the state Legislature. Entergy, which has owned the Vernon facility since 2002, says if it does not win approval for its plan to sell Vermont Yankee and five other nuclear power plants to a spin-off company called Enexus, it will likely close the Vermont nuclear plant as scheduled in 2012. Continue reading →

December 29, 2009 Posted by | business and costs, USA | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Radiation risk for air travelers, in the name of security?

.It’s unclear how much radiation this would subject people to..

Full Body Scans Only Way To Stop Flight 253-Type Attempts: Expert  Huliq News by Michael Santo 29 Dec 09 As the world continues to reel in the aftermath of the flight 253 incident, in which Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, attempted to set off PETN explosive on a Northwest Airlines flight (Delta Airlines is NWA’s parent company), a security expert says there is an answer. The backscatter machine, which provides a full body scan, could have prevented the incident, Continue reading →

December 27, 2009 Posted by | 2 WORLD, safety | , , , | Leave a comment

Nuclear deception by South Korea – ignored by the West

Iran never enriched uranium at a level that could only represent an interest in nuclear weapons – but South Korea did.

South Korea let off for nuclear deceptions Wasatch Economics by Gareth Porter posted by rosethorn on December 26, 2009 In 2004, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that a member state had violated its Safeguards Agreement by carrying out covert uranium conversion and enrichment activities and plutonium experiments for more than two decades. Continue reading →

December 27, 2009 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, South Korea | , , , | Leave a comment

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