An Update on Uranium Reprocessing
A March 22 article Recycling uranium and plutonium: where's it heading? on the Nuclear Engineering International website explores the status of uranium recycling and its future. Programs for the...
View ArticleOil Rises Above $80 a barrel.
On Monday, the price of a barrel of oil reached above $80 in New York. The cause was a combination of fears over supply as a strike hit the French oil industry and the vexed issue of uranium enrichment...
View ArticleUS DOE nuclear power R&D nearing $0
US advanced nuclear fission R&D is starvingThe US DOE invested $16 billion into R&D for the liquid sodium cooled fast breeder reactor. The work carried out by Argonne National Labs on this...
View ArticleUnited States Transuranium & Uranium Registries - What Does the Science Say...
In the category of you learn something new every day - if you pay attention I have just spend a pleasant couple of hours geeking out on presentations full of graphs of plutonium exposures and...
View ArticleGreenpeace Press Release About Gorleben Natural Gas Risk Was Just a Part of...
Greenpeace recently issued a press release warning about a potential hazard associated with putting nuclear waste containers in a salt formation at Gorleben. The author of the press release and the...
View ArticleAdmiral Rickover's Final Testimony to Congress
Twice during the past week, I have run into antinuclear rants that point to Admiral Rickover's final testimony to Congress in January 1982 as evidence to support an assertion that nuclear energy should...
View ArticleKauffman Poo-Poos ETFs, Everyone Else Says Their Wrong
First, Happy Veterans Day.If you follow the ETF industry then you know about the recent report from the Kauffman Foundation that took all sorts of shots at ETFs that were then debunked by IndexUniverse...
View ArticleUranium Market Story Surrounded by Fossil Fuel Advertising
On the advice of a friend, I just visited the New York Times web site to read a story from November 16, 2010 titled When Uranium Outshines Gold. Since I understand how quickly web advertising can...
View ArticleWhat does a shale gas play look like? Postcard pretty Pennsylvania with rigs,...
On November 30, 2010, The Ecologist published the above video in association with a story titled US natural gas drilling boom linked to pollution and social strife. Please take the time to watch it...
View ArticleUranium Needs More of a Pullback
Friday I received buy alerts on Uranium Resources (URRE) and Uranium Energy Corp (UEC) and after checking out the charts I passed, because I don't believe they've had enough of a correction that gives...
View ArticleA video that Tim The Tool Man Taylor would love. More power! What can 1 pound...
A friend just shared a link to this video of a Russian nuclear powered ice breaker speeding to the North Pole at 16 knots, using 1 pound of uranium per day to drive a 25,000 tons ship through pack...
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