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RIA Novosti - World - Russia proposes Slovakia join intl. uranium enrichment center-2

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.

The New Nuclear Risks

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.

ABC Alice Springs - NT Labor to discuss proposed uranium mine

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.

Rutland Herald: Brattleboro hosts boisterous nuclear forum

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.

Uranium mining worries ranchers » RapidCityJournal.com

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.

Rocky Mountain Chronicle - Uranium Support Moves Above Ground

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.

Northern Colorado Business Report - Mining right-to-know bill dies in committee

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.

Flats compensation case stirs lawmakers : State and West : Boulder Daily Camera

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.

firstamendmentcenter: Citizens group prevails in FOIA fight with nuclear agency

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.

RN&R; > All hell breaks loose > 04.03.08

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.

Kyiv Post. US nuclear fuel firms sign deal

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.

Areva will manage U.K. nuclear waste - UPI.com

PARIS, April 2 (UPI) -- French firm Areva is one of three groups set to operate a British low-level nuclear waste site.

Whitehaven News: Radioactive leak at sea disposal facility

A CORRIDOR in the Sellafield nuclear waste sea disposal facility became contaminated after a leak.

US Missile "Glory Trip 196GM" to Kwajalein Missile Range Successful

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.

Aging N-reactors face crisis over structural integrity : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)

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.

Groups criticize DOE's GNEP program as too costly and too risky

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.

North County Journal | News | BRIDGETON: EPA presents plan to handle nuclear waste at landfill

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.

The State | 04/02/2008 | SCE&G; takes step toward building reactors

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.

Daily Record: Uranium drilling fails first test

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.

Pahrump Valley Times - State estimates record challenges to Yucca

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.

Another American War Crime in the Making by Paul Craig Roberts

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.

Boyd promotes uranium industry

Energy and Resources Minister Bill Boyd is set to deliver a keynote speech at a uranium industry conference in Vancouver this week.

Energy Dept. Hesitates on Dealing With Uranium - New York Times

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.

Building a Better Bomb

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.

The Associated Press: NRC Takes 32 Years to Answer Petition

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.

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