BRATISLAVA, April 3 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has proposed Slovakia join the international uranium enrichment center in Angarsk, East Siberia, the Russian prime minister said after talks with his Slovak counterpart in Bratislava Thursday.
Humans love to suppress abstract dangers. They react only after they get their fingers burned. In handling nuclear risks, however, we can hardly get away with such childlike behavior.
The outgoing president of the Northern Territory Labor Party will not say whether he will reject a proposal for a new uranium mine south of Alice Springs when it is discussed at the party's conference this weekend.
BRATTLEBORO — The Department of Public Service got a rough reception Wednesday from a roomful of area residents who said they came looking for answers about the future of Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, and not more talk.
Belle Fourche rancher Tom Davis said Wednesday afternoon that he was better educated but still worried about his water supplies following a state Water Management Board meeting about in situ uranium mining.
Before Don Marostica was a state lawmaker or a successful commercial real-estate broker, he was a high school science teacher, schooling teenagers in geology. Class was back in session for Mr.
DENVER -- A bill designed to let the public know about possible mining activities near them was killed April 2 in the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee.
Donna DeKruger never intended to stir things up like this. Last month, she fired off a letter to her congressman and called up a newspaper reporter to tell her story -- things she'd never done before.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A federal judge has ruled in favor of an activist group in its battle to obtain documents on nuclear waste sites, monitoring and 10-year plans for future activities at Sandia National Laboratories.
Yucca Mountain Dirty Bomb, a novel by Wendell A. Duffield, posits a literary worst-case scenario about a potential nuclear waste dumpsite in Nevada. The year is 2027, and stewards of the not-too-distant future environment have gone ahead and done it.
Two major US companies are getting a slice of Ukraine's vast atomic power market, offering a chance to reduce its dependency on Russia, currently its monopoly supplier of nuclear fuel.
PARIS, April 2 (UPI) -- French firm Areva is one of three groups set to operate a British low-level nuclear waste site.
A CORRIDOR in the Sellafield nuclear waste sea disposal facility became contaminated after a leak.
A Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile configured with a National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, test assembly launched from North Vandenberg today at 1:01 a.m.
OSAKA--Reactor vessels at a number of nuclear plants in operation for more than 30 years will soon run out of test strips used to measure their structural integrity.
The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership is a poorly-supported program that could pose significant risks to public health and safety, a group of public interest, environmental and policy groups said in a report Monday.
A plan to put a cap over the radioactive waste in the West Lake Landfill has too many what-ifs for some North County residents.
SCE&G; gave a nuclear power plant supplier the go-ahead Tuesday to start gathering parts for the power company's proposed new reactors in Fairfield County.
Critics of exploratory uranium drilling in the Tallahassee area broke into resounding applause Tuesday night, when the Fremont County Planning Commission recommended denial of the required Conditional Use Permit by a split 4-3 vote.
WASHINGTON -- Nevada could launch between 250-500 license challenges to Yucca Mountain, state officials said, making the proposed radioactive waste repository by far the most contentious issue ever weighed by nuclear safety regulators.
The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran.
Energy and Resources Minister Bill Boyd is set to deliver a keynote speech at a uranium industry conference in Vancouver this week.
WASHINGTON — The government is sitting on an inventory of partly processed uranium that could be sold for billions of dollars while prices are high, but the Energy Department is dawdling in deciding what to do with it, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Since the end of the Cold War, the defense industry and its congressional allies have been quietly campaigning for a new type of nuclear weapon.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The nuclear energy watchdog group New England Coalition has been waiting a long time, a very long time, for the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to pay attention to its concerns.