• Estimates put the Libyan stockpile at some 1,000 metric tons of yellowcake uranium under Gadhafi, who declared his nascent nuclear weapons program to the world in 2003 after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. (clickorlando.com)
  • About 20 metric tons of highly enriched uranium could be "down-blended" to low-enriched uranium and transferred to the Tennessee Valley Authority for use as a fuel to produce tritium for nuclear weapons, according to a public notice published in the Federal Register this week . (oakridgetoday.com)
  • So, NNSA's domestic uranium enrichment strategy includes NNSA Defense Programs down-blending about 20 metric tons of highly enriched uranium to low-enriched uranium for use as fuel in tritium production reactors, the public notice said. (oakridgetoday.com)
  • The United States has stockpiled over 85,000 metric tons of nuclear waste that requires permanent disposal. (earth911.com)
  • TOKYO -- Japan was in possession of a total of some 46.1 metric tons of plutonium at home and abroad as of the end of 2020, the Cabinet Office reported to the Japan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) on July 9. (mainichi.jp)
  • An estimated 8,000-10,000 metric tons of fluorspar are recovered each year from uranium enrichment, stainless steel pickling, and petroleum alkylation. (cdc.gov)
  • The apparent consumption of fluorspar (excluding fluorspar equivalents of fluorosilicic acid, hydrofluoric acid, and cryolite) in the United States was 601,000 metric tons in 2000 and was estimated to be 636,000 metric tons in 2001 (USGS 2002a). (cdc.gov)
  • The U.S. capacity for hydrogen fluoride production was 208,000 metric tons in 2001 (SRI 2002). (cdc.gov)
  • 5. PRODUCTION, IMPORT/EXPORT, USE, AND DISPOSAL hydrofluoric acid, which was 350,000 metric tons in 2001, is expected to increase to 364,000 metric tons in 2005 (CMR 2002). (cdc.gov)
  • Natural uranium cannot immediately be used for energy production or bomb fuel, as the enrichment process typically requires the metal to be converted into a gas, then later spun in centrifuges to reach the levels needed. (clickorlando.com)
  • The United States does not currently have a fully domestic uranium enrichment capability, according to this week's public notice, which was published by the NNSA in the Federal Register on Tuesday . (oakridgetoday.com)
  • The U.S. uranium enrichment market consists of foreign enrichment technologies that cannot be used to meet national security requirements for enriched uranium," said the public notice, which was signed by Philip T. Calbos, NNSA acting deputy administrator for defense programs. (oakridgetoday.com)
  • There are efforts to restore the nation's domestic uranium enrichment capability , but the NNSA, a DOE agency, said it will take time to develop enrichment technologies and allow for a thorough analysis. (oakridgetoday.com)
  • Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on 1 March that 'it is important to ensure that Iran does not resume its uranium-enrichment program,' ITAR-TASS reported. (rferl.org)
  • Over 660 tons remain - and our enrichment process [at the Natanz facility] is ongoing. (memri.org)
  • The Secretary shall not provide enrichment services, or transfer, sell or otherwise provide any uranium to any person except in accordance with this section. (govinfo.gov)
  • The plan shall outline steps the Secretary will take to minimize the impact of transferring, selling, or otherwise providing uranium on the domestic uranium mining, conversion, and enrichment industries, including any actions for which the Secretary would require new authority. (govinfo.gov)
  • The folks in Idaho, according to a release by the Environment News Service, are apparently tickled pink that the French Company, AREVA, is planning construction of a $2 billion uranium enrichment plant near Idaho Falls, Idaho. (planetsave.com)
  • Cascade of gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment Photo: US Department of Energy. (dlr.de)
  • By some estimates, there is only enough uranium to continue producing current levels of nuclear power for another 90 years . (earth911.com)
  • Should it prove economically viable or politically necessary, Indonesia can probably mine enough uranium from its domestic reserves to provide yellowcake for its planned nuclear power reactors. (nautilus.org)
  • Enough Uranium was mined that a sign in town declared that Moab was "The Uranium Capitol of the World! (planetsave.com)
  • US companies may fail to launch next generation nuclear power plants with new Small Modular Reactors (SMR) without supplies of Russian uranium, Reuters reported on Thursday. (rt.com)
  • While the company has not been subject to Western sanctions, being an important part of the global nuclear fuel supply chain, US firms X-energy and TerraPower that have state contracts to develop advanced reactors, are reluctant to buy Russian uranium. (rt.com)
  • Uranium from commercial reactors was removed. (metafilter.com)
  • Depleted uranium is left over after uranium has been enriched for use in nuclear reactors or weapons, blurring the line between peaceful and wartime uses of nuclear power. (scientificamerican.com)
  • The next step will be initiating the removal the melted uranium fuel from one of the reactors, which is expected to get underway in 2021. (sott.net)
  • While the FEPC aims to increase the number of such reactors to at least 12 by fiscal 2030, thereby consuming 6.6 tons of plutonium per year, there are no prospects of being able to activate other reactors or of local bodies and residents giving the green light for such a move. (mainichi.jp)
  • Nuclear reactors use the controlled splitting of uranium atoms to produce energy. (hackaday.com)
  • The National Nuclear Security Administration and TVA announced in August that they intend to enter into an agreement to “down-blend†highly enriched uranium to low-enriched uranium in order to help produce tritium, a key “boosting†component in nuclear weapons. (oakridgetoday.com)
  • The highly enriched uranium used for the “down-blending†will be processed, packaged, and shipped from Y-12, according to the NNSA. (oakridgetoday.com)
  • Y-12 is an NNSA site, and it is the main storage facility for certain categories of highly enriched uranium. (oakridgetoday.com)
  • Down-blending HEU (highly enriched uranium) to low-enriched uranium supports the Department's defense missions and promotes national security by enabling tritium production necessary to support the nuclear weapons stockpile," Perry said in the secretarial determination. (oakridgetoday.com)
  • Each ton of natural uranium can eventually be purified up to 5.6 kg of material that can be used to create weapons-grade uranium, experts say. (russianfreepress.com)
  • The outlet reports that the urgent need for fuel has even prompted the US government to downblend some of its stockpile of weapons-grade uranium, but that process also takes time. (rt.com)
  • TVA will pay for the value of uranium to be received. (oakridgetoday.com)
  • The plan shall outline steps the Secretary shall take to ensure that the Federal Government maximizes the potential value of uranium for the Federal Government. (govinfo.gov)
  • Hamish de Bretton-Gordon , an ex-commander of the UK's and NATO's chemical, biological, and nuclear defense forces, cautioned that the disappearance of a significant amount of uranium oxide, also known as yellowcake, is extremely concerning. (independentminute.com)
  • The hurdle is making it economic to extract uranium from seawater, because the amount of uranium in seawater is truly inexhaustible. (forbes.com)
  • The video footage resembled features of the desert surrounding the uranium stockpile site, though the AP could not immediately locate it. (clickorlando.com)
  • According to the Cabinet Office report, the latest increase in the nation's plutonium stockpile was due to the addition of roughly 0.6 tons that had been stored in Britain after being extracted from nuclear fuel but which had not been included in the stockpile due to delayed procedures. (mainichi.jp)
  • As a result, the domestic stockpile remained at the same level as the previous year, at roughly 8.9 tons. (mainichi.jp)
  • Low-enriched uranium, or LEU fuel, is used in a TVA commercial power reactor, Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 1. (oakridgetoday.com)
  • The uranium will be transferred to the NNSA federal partner, the Tennessee Valley Authority, only for use as fuel in a reactor producing tritium and not for resale or retransfer," the public notice said. (oakridgetoday.com)
  • He added that "in the era of the Mir Hossein Mousavi [government, 1981-1989], Iran purchased 680 tons of uranium, and so far has used only 12 tons of that, as fuel for the research reactor in Tehran. (memri.org)
  • This is one of the earlier reactor designs, in which the uranium fuel boils water that directly drives the steam turbine. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Fuel rods in nuclear reactor cores are filled with uranium oxide ceramic pellets in zirconium cladding. (scientificamerican.com)
  • uranium fuel pellets power each nuclear reactor in Units 3 and 4. (opc.com)
  • Earlier this year, the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Office of Nuclear Material Integration (ONMI), in cooperation with the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12), completed the Zero Power Physics Reactor (ZPPR) Depleted Uranium (DU) Recovery Project. (doe.gov)
  • This is where we need to point out the difference between weapons grade and reactor grade uranium. (hackaday.com)
  • But for four decades, the management of more than 250 million tons of radioactive uranium mill waste has been largely overlooked, continuing to pose a public health threat. (latimes.com)
  • It's not just that the 4 billion tons of uranium in seawater now would fuel a thousand 1,000-MW nuclear power plants for a 100,000 years. (forbes.com)
  • The report determines that depleted uranium is 100 to 1,000 times more carcinogenic than the present risk model suggests. (democracynow.org)
  • means 1,000 kilograms of uranium. (govinfo.gov)
  • More than 200 pounds of tailings are produced for every pound of uranium. (earth911.com)
  • But something else sleeps in the soil: uranium tailings. (planetsave.com)
  • 16 million cubic yards of uranium tailings lie 3 miles north of Moab. (planetsave.com)
  • Currently 80 containers per day of the 16 tons of uranium tailings are transported to the new site. (planetsave.com)
  • Energy Solutions announced that $84 million of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding has been allocated to the Moab UMTRA project to accelerate removal of uranium mill tailings away from the banks of the Colorado river. (planetsave.com)
  • Similar levels of risk are ac- cepted for emissions from zinc-oxide plants (3 × 10-3), secondary lead smelters (3 × 10-3), elemental phosphorus plants (1 × 10-3), vinylidine chlo- ride facilities (8 × 10-4), DOE facilities emitting radionuclides (7 × 10-4), and uranium mill tailings emitting radon (5 × 10-4) (EPA 48 Fed. (cdc.gov)
  • At enCore, we are leveraging our experience and resources toward the restart of the Alta Mesa CPP to become a domestic solution to the global uranium demand needs. (fox40.com)
  • 0.711 percent of the uranium-235 isotope. (govinfo.gov)
  • means uranium having an assay of 20 percent or greater of the uranium-235 isotope. (govinfo.gov)
  • Uranium 235 is the most commonly used isotope in the types of power station that are in widespread use today. (dlr.de)
  • The dominant isotope, accounting for about 99 percent, is uranium 238. (dlr.de)
  • In order for the output of a nuclear power plant to be adjustable, the uranium fuel is formed into pellets approximately the size of a Tootsie Roll. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Clean nuclear energy is powered by tiny uranium fuel pellets. (opc.com)
  • uranium fuel pellets can power a typical household's electricity needs for a year. (opc.com)
  • Top image: Uranium pellets and fuel rod. (dlr.de)
  • DUBAI - Some 2.5 tons of natural uranium stored in a site in war-torn Libya have gone missing, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said Thursday, raising safety and proliferation concerns. (clickorlando.com)
  • On Tuesday, "agency safeguards inspectors found that 10 drums containing approximately 2.5 tons of natural uranium in the form of uranium ore concentrate were not present as previously declared at a location in the state of Libya," the IAEA said. (clickorlando.com)
  • While inspectors removed the last of the enriched uranium from Libya in 2009, the yellowcake remained behind, with the U.N. in 2013 estimating some 6,400 barrels of it were stored at Sabha. (clickorlando.com)
  • UN nuclear inspectors have discovered that about 2.5 tons of natural uranium have gone missing at a facility in Libya that is not under government control, writes The Guardian. (russianfreepress.com)
  • The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently informed the United Nations that roughly two-and-a-half tons of uranium have vanished in Libya , leading to increased concerns regarding nuclear security due to the potential use of the uranium in weapons or dirty bombs. (independentminute.com)
  • The uranium was taken from a remote site in southern Libya, where numerous ungoverned areas make it simpler for thieves to avoid detection. (independentminute.com)
  • Efforts are underway to find more than two tons of natural uranium reported missing from supplies held in Libya, the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Wednesday. (emibuddy.com)
  • While potential uranium and thorium ore loads are widely distributed in Indonesia, there are two established uranium ore lodes, possibly inactive, at Remaja-Hitam (aka Edo-Remaja) and Rirang-Tanah Merah, located near Desa Kalan, Kecamatan Ella Hilir, Melawai, Kalimantan Barat. (nautilus.org)
  • DALLAS , Nov. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - enCore Energy Corp. (NYSE American: EU) (TSXV: EU) (the " Company " or " enCore" ) today provides an update from the South Texas Alta Mesa In-Situ Recovery (ISR) Uranium Central Processing Plant (CPP) and Wellfield. (fox40.com)
  • However, only 0.6 tons of plutonium is expected to be extracted from spent fuel at the plant in fiscal 2023. (mainichi.jp)
  • Meanwhile, the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC), comprising major domestic power utilities, plans to consume 0.2 to 1.4 tons of plutonium per year between fiscal 2021 and 2023. (mainichi.jp)
  • This marine testing shows that these new fibers had the capacity to hold 6 grams of uranium per kilogram of adsorbent in only about 50 days in natural seawater. (forbes.com)
  • One kilogram of uranium produces as much energy as one thousand tons of oil. (ecolo.org)
  • Qarib stated that because Iran does not have an infrastructure of nuclear plants that would require such a stock of enriched uranium for operation, the country really has no reason to reject the Vienna proposal. (memri.org)
  • Iran gets to keep tons of low enriched uranium. (washingtonjewishweek.com)
  • Already, Iran has five tons of low enriched uranium on-hand. (sidroth.org)
  • Nuclear fuel, which in modern commercial nuclear power plants comes in the form of enriched uranium, naturally produces heat as uranium atoms split (see the Nuclear Fission section of How Nuclear Bombs Work for details). (howstuffworks.com)
  • But in the 1940s, federal surveyors found large deposits of uranium on the lands of the Navajo Nation, which covers 27,000 square miles in New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. (cdc.gov)
  • The Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior, is investigating several types of low-grade uranium deposits. (cdc.gov)
  • Approximately 96.2 million lb cb2o5 (43 pct of the tonnage at a grade exceeding 0.125 pct cb2o5), 11.8 million lb u3o8, 27.9 million lb tho2, 133.0 million lb y2o3, 637.6 million lb zro2, and 241 million lb rare earth oxides (reo) are estimated to be contained within nine deposits totalling 37.8 million tons (at least 80 pct of resource tonnage also exceeds 0.5 pct y2o3 + reo). (cdc.gov)
  • Mineralized dikes contain most of the beryllium, columbium, tantalum, yttrium, zirconium, and ree resources, whereas shear zones and fracture-related deposits (Ross-Adams Mine) contain the principal uranium resource. (cdc.gov)
  • The Kazakhstani national nuclear company Kazatomprom produced 2,800 tons of uranium in 2002, which was 8 percent of the total uranium production in the world. (pravda.ru)
  • It appears that Indonesia has two established mines, both in the West Kalimantan uranium district. (nautilus.org)
  • While it is estimated that Indonesia can produce about 770 tons of uranium per year, the aforementioned mines are currently thought to be dormant. (nautilus.org)
  • While the Uranium mines no longer run, the history is visible. (planetsave.com)
  • Putting an Old Dog to Rest…Hopefully For years, there have been rumors, and concerns, about playground areas at the Grand Canyon School District, located inside the park, being contaminated with radioactive soil from old uranium mines in the area. (planetsave.com)
  • ATSDR maps Navajo Nation uranium mines to protect people from excessive uranium exposure. (cdc.gov)
  • In fact, from 1944 to 1986, uranium mines on Navajo lands yielded almost four million tons of uranium ore. (cdc.gov)
  • Libya's late dictator Moammar Gadhafi stored thousands of barrels of so-called yellowcake uranium for a once-planned uranium conversion facility that was never built in his decadeslong secret weapons program. (clickorlando.com)
  • Uranium Contaminated Soil at Grand Canyon School District Playgrounds? (planetsave.com)
  • But with over 500 abandoned uranium mine areas on their lands, Navajo Nation community members are concerned about possible exposure to uranium by direct contact with soil and rock or by using water sources containing uranium. (cdc.gov)
  • The shortfall is being met from uranium stockpiles, from the reprocessing of used fuel rods, and from uranium recovered from decommissioned power stations. (dlr.de)
  • Urania was built at the Lake Washington Mill Company shipyard, south of Leschi Park on Lake Washington. (wikipedia.org)
  • Beginning in 1958, a uranium mill owned by Homestake Mining Co. of California processed and refined ore mined nearby. (latimes.com)
  • The ECRR has just published a report which determines that previous risk models for depleted uranium exposure are incorrect. (democracynow.org)
  • For much of the U.S. population, uranium exposure stays at low levels. (cdc.gov)
  • And they need to know how to protect themselves and their families from possible uranium exposure. (cdc.gov)
  • OBJECTIVES: Exposure notification (EN) supplements traditional contact tracing by using proximity sensors in smartphones to record close contact between persons. (cdc.gov)
  • METHODS: We created an agent-based model, Simulated Automated Exposure Notification (SimAEN), to explore the effectiveness of EN to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2002, divers of the Submerged Cultural Resources Exploration Team ("SCRET") found a wreck they concluded was Urania, noting that she lies upright on the bottom, her hull substantially intact, but her upper works completely destroyed by fire. (wikipedia.org)
  • Reuters first reported on the IAEA warning about the missing Libyan uranium, saying the IAEA told members reaching the site that's not under government control required "complex logistics. (clickorlando.com)
  • They claimed that a top IAEA official informed them of the "opening" nearly a week earlier than the agency described discovering the missing uranium. (clickorlando.com)
  • Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi told the organization's member states that 10 barrels of uranium ore concentrate 'were not present as previously stated. (russianfreepress.com)
  • UN nuclear watchdog inspectors visited the Libyan site on Tuesday, and the IAEA reported that 10 drums containing the uranium were absent from their previously recorded location. (independentminute.com)
  • So unless I am getting this wrong, this was sealed by the IAEA, and Saddam, who apparently was very hungry for finding nuclear material didn't touch the uranium there , despite it being in his own land, and in fact, it was safe until after the US invaded and looters stole materials when they left the facilities unguarded. (metafilter.com)
  • Plutonium is mixed with uranium to produce mixed oxide (MOX) fuel for use at nuclear power plants. (mainichi.jp)
  • In 2001, 65,200 tons of byproduct fluorosilicic acid (equivalent to 104,000 tons of fluorspar) were produced by 10 plants owned by 6 companies. (cdc.gov)
  • Nuclear fuel made with uranium extracted from seawater makes nuclear power completely renewable. (forbes.com)
  • TEPCO workers lower the 91-ton shielded transfer cask in preparation for relocating unused nuclear fuel. (planetsave.com)
  • Energy question of the week: How much longer will world reserves of the nuclear fuel uranium last? (dlr.de)
  • However, as is the case with crude oil, coal or natural gas, reserves of uranium 235 - the fuel used in atomic power stations - are finite, meaning that they will run out one day. (dlr.de)
  • Rather than finish the cleanup, Homestake's current owner, the Toronto-based mining giant Barrick Gold, is preparing to ask the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the independent federal agency that oversees the cleanup of uranium mills, for permission to demolish its groundwater treatment systems and hand the site and remaining waste over to the U.S. Department of Energy to monitor and maintain forever. (latimes.com)
  • This additional funding will allow for 2 million extra tons to be disposed of by 2011, which will accelerate cleanup by several years. (planetsave.com)
  • But each ton of natural uranium - if obtained by a group with the technological means and resources - can be refined to 5.6 kilograms (12 pounds) of weapons-grade material over time, experts say. (clickorlando.com)
  • Gary Gill, deputy director of PNNL's Coastal Sciences Division who coordinated the marine testing, noted, "Understanding how the adsorbents perform under natural seawater conditions is critical to reliably assessing how well the uranium adsorbent materials work. (forbes.com)
  • This poses a simple question: how much longer will our natural uranium reserves last? (dlr.de)
  • The annual demand for natural uranium, from which fissile material can be obtained in an elaborate and costly process, currently stands at about 68,000 tons. (dlr.de)
  • It accounts for less than one percent of natural uranium. (dlr.de)
  • Natural uranium is roughly 99% U238 and 1% U235. (hackaday.com)
  • U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry determined in August that the transfer of the low-enriched uranium from U.S. Department of Energy inventories to help produce tritium would serve a national security purpose. (oakridgetoday.com)
  • that details the management of the excess uranium inventories of the Department of Energy and covers a period of not fewer than 10 years. (govinfo.gov)
  • He pointed out that the uranium, likely in powdered form, could be enriched for nuclear use or employed to disperse low-level contamination across a vast region. (independentminute.com)
  • He is currently the medical director of the Uranium Medical Research Center, an independent nonprofit institute which studies the effects of uranium contamination. (democracynow.org)
  • Uranium mining and milling left a trail of contamination and suffering, from miners who died of lung cancer while the federal government kept the risks secret to the largest radioactive spill in the country's history. (latimes.com)
  • Uranium waste piles are the main source of contamination at the Homestake facility. (latimes.com)
  • We recommended care for anybody downwind of any uranium dust, anybody working in and around uranium contamination, and anyone within a vehicle, structure, or building that fs struck with uranium munitions. (angelfire.com)
  • Iwan said the thickness of uranium reserves in the country was only around half a meter, far less than those buried in Pakistan which could have thickness of around two meters. (nautilus.org)
  • The uranium transfers will be conducted under the USEC Privatization Act of 1996, which provides for the transfer of enriched uranium for national security purposes, as determined by the secretary. (oakridgetoday.com)
  • DU is not very radioactive-about the same as naturally occurring uranium-but if ingested, according to the U.S. Environmental Policy Institute, it "has the potential to generate significant medical consequences. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • The BGR estimates that total reserves of uranium, including those for which extraction costs would be significantly higher, are many times greater than the reserves currently being exploited. (dlr.de)
  • We describe a model that estimates the impact of EN implementation on reducing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and on the workload of public health officials, in combination with other key public health interventions such as traditional contact tracing, face mask wearing, and testing. (cdc.gov)
  • CONCLUSIONS: Estimates from SimAEN can help public health officials determine which levels of EN adoption in combination with other public health interventions can maximize prevention of COVID-19 while minimizing unnecessary quarantine in their jurisdiction. (cdc.gov)
  • 22.2 million tons of uranium waste left over from milling ore to supply power plants and nuclear bombs. (latimes.com)
  • BGR researchers, in their energy study, estimate that the reserves of uranium that can be extracted at a cost of less than 40 US dollars per ton amount to about 1.7 million tons. (dlr.de)
  • Weighing in at 90 thousand tons, these massive vessels need a lot of power to get moving. (hackaday.com)
  • An acid treatment recovers the uranium in the form of a uranyl complex, regenerating the fibers that can be reused many times. (forbes.com)
  • 80 to 85 percent u3o8 extraction resulted from leaching with 20 to 40 pounds per ton of sulfuric acid. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. Busby is also a member of the International Society for Environment Epidemiology and was invited to Iraq and Kosovo to investigate the health effects of depleted uranium. (democracynow.org)
  • two tons of uranium was removed from Iraq last week. (metafilter.com)
  • 300 tons of depleted uranium were dropped on Iraq during the first Gulf War. (metafilter.com)
  • When the Bush Administration totals up the cost of the Iraq War it had best be prepared to tack on billions more to clean up the toxic residue of how this country wages war, specifically its widespread use of cluster weapons and Depleted Uranium (DU). (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • The technical report was prepared in accordance with the provisions of National Instrument 43-101 and entitled "UPDATE REPORT ON THE APPIA ENERGY CORP. URANIUM-RARE EARTH PROPERTY, ELLIOT LAKE DISTRICT, NORTH-CENTRAL ONTARIO, CANADA" by Watts, Griffis and McOuat, dated July 30, 2013 (the "2013 Updated Resource Estimate Report") and filed on SEDARplus at www.sedarplus.com on August 14, 2013. (wallstreetreporter.com)
  • In 2019, the US government awarded a shared-cost contract to build a demonstration facility with Centrus, the only firm outside Russia which has a license to produce this type of uranium. (rt.com)
  • The uranium will produce the lowest amount of heat possible (but will still produce heat). (howstuffworks.com)
  • West Kalimantan has ample uranium reserves which can be enriched to produce electricity, Deputy Governor Drs Christiandy Sanjaya says. (nautilus.org)
  • Other potential producers of low enriched uranium are further behind. (rt.com)
  • Indonesian House of Representatives` Commission VII expressed support here on Friday to the National Nuclear Power Agency`s (Batan) plan to continue studying the potential of uranium reserve in the West Kalimantan village of Kallan in the district of Melawi. (nautilus.org)
  • Total potential uranium resources in 2008. (dlr.de)
  • We varied selected simulation variables, such as population adoption of EN and EN detector sensitivity configurations, to illustrate the potential effects of EN. (cdc.gov)
  • The only company which currently sells this type of uranium commercially is Tenex - a subsidiary of Russian state-owned nuclear energy major Rosatom. (rt.com)
  • According to the results of 2011, uranium production volume in the Republic of Kazakhstan made up 19,450 tU, which is 9% more than in 2010. (nextbigfuture.com)
  • Upgrades and refurbishments continue to advance on schedule for the planned 2024 resumption of uranium production 1 . (fox40.com)
  • The elution circuit, used to strip uranium from the ion exchange beads, has been completed, and represents a significant milestone in the pathway for production restart. (fox40.com)
  • The company is planning to increase uranium production to 15,000 tons per year by 2028. (pravda.ru)
  • The commercial fluorine production capacity of the United States and Canada is over 5,000 tons/year (Shia 1994). (cdc.gov)
  • mean uranium that has been combined with fluorine, to form a compound that, dependent on temperature and pressure, can be a solid, liquid, or gas. (govinfo.gov)
  • New technological breakthroughs from DOE's Pacific Northwest (PNNL) and Oak Ridge (ORNL) national laboratories have made removing uranium from seawater within economic reach and the only question is - when will the source of uranium for our nuclear power plants change from mined ore to seawater extraction? (forbes.com)
  • While Germany does have its own uranium reserves, primarily in the Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge) region, extraction has been scaled down progressively since German reunification due to rising costs and the environmental impact of these operations. (dlr.de)
  • The United States uses depleted uranium to create weapons such as shells and projectiles, to enhance armor-piercing capability. (scientificamerican.com)
  • The amount represents an increase of about 0.6 tons from the previous year. (mainichi.jp)
  • In a statement, the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency said its director-general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, informed member states Wednesday about the missing uranium. (clickorlando.com)
  • To amend the USEC Privatization Act to require the Secretary of Energy to issue a long-term Federal excess uranium inventory management plan, and for other purposes. (govinfo.gov)
  • He admitted that uranium as a raw material for producing energy was not yet economical but he believed it would continue to be in the future. (nautilus.org)
  • He said "Indonesia needs accurate data about uranium potentials in Melawi and the National Atomic Energy Agency has to study them. (nautilus.org)