CURRENT NEWS FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS
URANIUM & PLUTONIUM FUELS
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CURRENT NEWS FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS URANIUM & PLUTONIUM FUELS |
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| 12-07-06 | China Daily | Australia
to export uranium to China This is the implementation of a pact earlier this year. |
| 12-06-06 | Market Watch | Producers
oppose U.S. plan to sell off uranium stockpile Nuclear Fuel is the market of today but DOE could destroy it. |
| 9-18-06 | Interfax | Russia
to open International Nuclear Fuel Center in 2007 - Kiriyenko Russia is ahead of everyone. |
| 9-16-06 | Associated Press | Nuclear
renaissance prompts uranium boom Great News for everyone. |
| 9-14-06 | PR Newswire | AREVA,
Washington Group International and BWX Technologies, Inc., Respond to Department
of Energy Nuclear Initiative Great action from AREVA née COGEMA |
| 9-8-06 | Sunday Times (ZA) | Keeping
funding options open – South Australia uranium mines Uranium mining will be profitable |
| 9-8-06 | Associated Press | India
disproves capping of its nuclear fissile material production Absolutely, the United States has no IAEA standing to try to limit fuel of any independent country. |
| 9-5-06 | Taopei Times | Aussie
uranium set to boost China The rest of the world better get in line. |
| 8-23-06 | Indian Defence | Uranium
deposits discovered in North East India More fuel |
| 7-26-06 | Perth Now | Aistralian
opposition leader Beazley change on uranium divides Labor New policies for new times. |
| 7-25-06 | New Mexico Business Weekly | Washington
Group awarded contract for uranium enrichment facility Nuclear Business is alive and well. |
| 7-20-06 | Wal;l Street Journal | A
Waste of Energy - Yucca Mountain hangs in nuclear limbo. Commentary |
| 6-30-06 | Interfax | Russia,
Belgium may sign nuclear power agreement MOX was Belgium’s invention and they have the expertise. |
| 6-28-06 | Reuters | Uranium
prices seen up with nuclear power demand The focus is on Australia. |
| 6-23-06 | Reuters | Louisiana
Energy cleared to build enrichment plant Excellent news just in time for the next generation. |
| 6-21-06 | The Guardian (Australia) | Lucas
Heights: small accidents, huge issues Remember that The Guardian is a paper on the level of Greenpeace. It is not objective. Take care with the veracity of this piece. |
| 6-20-06 | The A to Z of Materials | Thorium
Reactors - A New Type of Nuclear Reactor There’s a long way between a fuel concept and a confirmed reactor design. |
| 6-6-06 | Radio NewZealand | Australia to hold nuclear power review Australia would be foolish not to use its wealth. |
| 6-4-06 | The Sunday Times (Australia) | Western
Australia Premier warns off U-miners The case of an unscrupulous politician using powers undemocratically. |
| 5-31-06 | US Energy | U.S.
Energy Corp. Provides Update on Uranium, Molybdenum, Gold and Natural Gas
Holdings Look at those price changes in the past three years in the hundreds of percents and you will see the imminence and urgency of new nuclear plants |
| 5-31-06 | The Sydney Morning Herald | India
chases uranium deal Everyone knows what’s coming after having fiddled with ‘renewables’ for a few years. |
| 5-24-06 | The Courier | Uranium
Boom heads for bust Buying uranium shares are for long term investors where recovery might not come for a decade. |
| 5-23-06 | Triangle Business Journal | Australian
firm could build GE uranium facilities in Wilmington, NC Australia is at last looking at all parts of its uranium business to provide full service. |
| 5-22-06 | The Australian | Australia
considers uranium enrichment Interesting idea to add to the value of mined uranium, Now, what about Canada? |
| 5-16-06 | The Age | Nuclear
waste lease 'years away' Australia is too remote to contemplate hosting a global nuclear waste site but the granite Canadian Shield would be a different matter. |
| 5-15-06 | Novastar | House
of Representatives Committees Take Measures to Terminate Mixed Oxide (MOX)
Program for Plutonium Disposition Disastrous decision but it looks like a purely financial one. |
| 5-13-06 | American Statesman | Energy
Department preparing to sell Canadian company 34 pounds of weapons-grade
uranium. This is excellent news when the consequences are the production of medical isotopes … it is of course attacked by paid-activists like this small-time lecturer at UT supported by aging Paul Leventhal. |
| 5-13-06 | Andnetwork | Zambia:
Uranium for Energy It’s the sensible thing to do … compete with Canada and Australia and keep prices down. |
| 5-12-06 | The State (SouthCarolina) | U.S.
must pursue reprocessing at Savannah River It is the best solution for incoming weapons grade fuel. |
| 5-11-06 | Seattle PI | Panel
limits nuclear reprocessing funds At least they are discussing reprocessing on the assumption tht new plants are about to be built. |
| 5-9-06 | Free Market News Network | 65,000-meter
Uranium exploration drilling program in Mongolia This is why we never know the true resources of uranium … or oil, or coal, or gas. |
| 5-7-06 | Shanghai Daily News | Brazil
inaugurates uranium enrichment center Excellent news because it opens fuel enrichment to other countries also. |
| 5-4-06 | The Age - Australia | Greens
see red over WWF, yellow cake What a nice thought … that they are going to lose |
| 5-3-06 | The Globe and Mail | Aussies
make push to cash in on nuclear revival Naturally! |
| 4-26-06 | Reuters | Russia
ignores U.S., delivers nuclear fuel to India Good – it is a normal part of trade. |
| 4-25-06 | Business Wire | USEC
Will Fuel Nuclear Renaissance CEO Tells Shareholders We need more confident statements like this … especially from the utilities. |
| 4-23-06 | United Nations Press Release | Nuclear
Bomb Grade Fuel Removed From Uzbekistan Now let’s use I productivelyt. |
| 4-20-06 | The New York Times | U.S.-Uzbek
cooperation on nuclear fuel removal A very comprehensive article on the subject |
| 4-4-06 | News.com (Australia) | China
fires nuclear reaction – meaning:
“uranium share prices rose after Australia promised to sell ore to
China! Such is the responsibility of journalist reporting. |
| 4-3-06 | The People's Daily (Xinhua) & Washington Post | Sino-Australian
co-op on nuclear energy solely for peaceful purposes:Wen China is acting as the future world leader should, and Australia would like to sell uranium! |
| 4-2-06 | Physics Org | Japanese
Rokkasho nuclear reprocessing plant starts tests Really great news … I just hope that there QA is thorough. |
| 4-2-06 | MosNews | Russia
Sends First Uranium Shipment to Indian Nuclear Plant Excellent business … work together and don’t force other sovereign nations to kow-tow first. |
| 3-29-06 | Stratfor | Japan:
Deal On Plutonium Resources The reporter who wrote this piece actually used the word ‘waste’ instead of ‘resources.’ He’s either ignorant or personally biased. |
| 3-22-06 | Financial Times | British
Energy and BNFL (BNG) and Urenco for sale When nuclear power supplies a large amount of British energy it is foolish to sell off its underpinnings. |
| 3-20-06 | NucNet | US
Launches Search For Advanced Fuel Recycling Sites Five years after we recommended the action. |
| 3-20-06 | Regnum News | Rosatom
of Russia expands its activities in foreign markets … India and China A healthy International Trade is infinitely preferable to the secrecy of the 1950-1960s. |
| 3-20-06 | eMedia News | Bush
Administration Nuclear Energy Initiative Hampered The headline is scarier that the the real time facts … building plants takes a lot of time, even sufficient for new technologists to graduate. |
| 3-20-06 | The Age (Australia) | Canberra
tips 3 new uranium mines in 10 years Now we are getting serious |
| 3-15-06 | World News - Australia | Russia
to supply uranium to Indian plants The trouble is that the statement “US opposes deal” is not a considered decision but a check off by a minor bureaucrat in DOE in Washington … practitioners of inefficiency and ill-considered policy. |
| 3-14-06 | Bloomberg | Uranium
to soar with nuclear revival Nuclear energy's revival can best be seen in uranium, which outperformed the metals markets in 2005 and may do so again this year. |
| 3-13-06 | WebWire | Uranium
Price Reaches $40 -- Can the Market Sustain this Landmark Price? Sign of the times when every nation projects building more and more nuclear plants. |
| 3-13-06 | Forbes | Areva
wins MOX fuel contract from Japan's Chubu Neither BelgoNucleaire nor BNFL are even competitors these days. |
| 3-13-06 | Business Wire | Thorium
mining One will make plenty of money out of nuclear fuel holdings in the future. |
| 3-12-06 | Herald Sun | Beware
uranium fever Heed the words |
| 3-3-06 | International Herald Tribune (AP) | Australia
won't sell India uranium Politics |
| 3-1-06 | Japan Economic Newswire | No
objection raised to plutonium-mix nuclear power plan in Ehime+ Great news |
| 2-28-06 | The Hindu | Prime
Minister Manmohan's `no' to US sponsored curbs on FBRs The US really should butt-out of other nation’s business especially when they are scientifically superior. |
| 2-27-06 | Google (Reuters) | Iran
working on uranium enrichment: IAEA One hardly blame them. They will need fuel and a little work now may also force others to help. |
| 2-26-06 | The Jerusalem Post | Iran,
Russia have enrichment agreement Centralized enrichment is an economic way to go and it stops politicians making war. |
| 2-23-06 | Google (Reuters) | US
nuclear industry wants no Yucca waste dump limit It would certainly save the problem of adding a further nuclear disposal site somewhere but it would still be better to recycle the partially used fuel. |
| 2-23-06 | Reuters | India
and the US hope for compromise on nuclear deal Let’s hope that the US is more sensible this time … cutting out India failed last time. |
| 2-20-06 | China View | Iran
ready to consider Russian proposal on nuclear fuel production It could be very well worth their while … it’s an international blackmail. |
| 2-15-06 | Yomiuri Shimbun | Global
policy needed on recycling N-fuel Japanese support for a global reprocessing and protection policy. |
| 2-12-08 | Kidder Nespapers | Brazil
poised to join nuclear elite The more the merrier. |
| 2-7-06 | Chennai | Review
Indo-US nuclear agreement: Ex PM Absolutely … the US refused help to India for decades. |
| 2-7-06 | TMC Net | Japan
hails U.S. initiative to expand nuclear energy worldwide We see any nuclear initiative as a domestic issue, the world sees it as global. |
| 2-3-06 | Business News | Novastar
Resources confirms significant progress towards completing merger agreement
with Thorium Power, Inc. There is hardly much of a market for Thorium, I would have thought. |
| 1-31-06 | ITAR-TASS | Foreign
Ministers in London to examine Moscow uranium project proposal. Let’s get it moving under the control of the IAEA. |
| 1-31-06 | ITAR-TASS | Russia
ready to create world centers to enrich uranium Great idea … it’s about time that the US suggested sensible solutions. |
| 1-30-06 | Forbes (AFX News) | Energy
Resources of Australia uranium output reaches record high in 2005 This would put reprocessing back a bit. |
| 1-29-06 | The Sunday Times | BNG
sale is held up by chiefs’ bitter row With Westinghouse sold to Toshiba only the clean-up firm is left. All it took was a little arrogant management in the nineties for the collapse. |
| 1-27-06 | The Financial Times | Fission
for the future A review of James Lovelock’s change of heart by an environmentalist who tries to discredit their erstwhile guru |
| 1-26-06 | TMC Net | Six
U.S. Democrats urge Japan to halt plan to reprocess spent nuclear fuel Would you vote for these ignorant interfering boondoggers? |
| 1-26-06 | Washington Post | Nuclear
Energy Plan Would Use Spent Fuel Makes sense but thd creation of power is better left to commercial generators. The government should simply clear tha pathways to the use of resources. |
| 1-10-06 | Mineweb.com Standard and Poors |
Standard
and Poors: Nuclear Power Carries High Business Risk Financing counts for more than nuclear enthusiasm so this is a good analysis |
| 12-28-05 | New York Times via Brattleboro Reformer | Nuclear
waste reprocessing gets another look by Congress Good … now all we need to do is call it by its real name: partially-used fuel. |
| 12-06-05 | Washington Post (AP) | Fuel
Unloaded From Chernobyl Reactor Normal business but good publicity. |
| 11-30-05 | San Francisco Chronicle | Plutonium
could be missing from lab -- 600-plus pounds unaccounted for, activist group
says This is a Makajani squawk once again. He is an activist group of one. |
| 11-12-05 | Yahoo, AP | Iran
Rules Out Uranium Enrichment Proposal The International proposals are arrogant though Iran’s President’s position makes it difficult to be otherwise. |
| 10-12-05 | Nuclear-Engineering | New
beryllium oxide nuclear fuel improves heat conduction Unfortunately such a discovery also demands a great deal of qualified research before it could be used. |
| 5-6-05 | Yahoo News (Reuters) | Experts
urge Japan to rethink plutonium plant The worst thing about this is that Glashow and out of work US agency civil servants are portrayed as ‘experts’ along with died-in-the-wool activist organizations. |
| 2-26-05 | Novositi | Russia
and Iran to sign an agreement on the return of spent nuclear fuel. Tough finances judging the value of the spent fuel and the cost of storage or disposal. |
| 2-25-05 | The Age | French
kiss-off looms for Xstrata The Olympic Dam must be in nuclear hands if Australia itself is to have a nuclear future. |
| 1-28-05 | Yahoo News (CP) | Uranium
miner and energy firm Cameco sees potential in Chinese market This is hardly news but the figures are contained in the article. |
| 11-29-04 | Budapest Business Journal | Nuclear
plant mulls waste disposal issue A world spent fuel retrievable repository makes very good sense and wealth to the owners |
| 10-29-04 | Yahoo (Reuters) | UN
offers to guarantee nuke fuel for Iran-diplomats This is a progressive move. The US approach of simply saying “No” will get nowhere. |
| 10-23-04 | The Japan Times | Atomic
commission votes to continue policy of reprocessing spent nuke fuel I don’t think there is much option if energy independence is still a requirement. All uranium is imported. |
| 10-1-04 | Guardian | Nuclear
Fuel Still Missing From Calif. Ongoing record problem |
| 9-30-04 | Yahoo Alerts (Reuters) | Japan
faces calls to review MOX nuclear fuel plan Realistically done a review would still reach the same results however within the present atmosphere of poor management things are different. |
| 9-14-04 | The Japan Times | Hitachi
storing spent nuclear fuel near Kawasaki residents An equally accurate headline would have been “Hitachi storing spent nuclear fuel safely.” |
| 8-12-04 | The Japan Times (Kyodo) | Monju
decision on hold This probably a correct decision since Kansai is a quality failure. |
| 7-7-04 | The Japan Times | Atomic
commission buried cost estimates Direct cost estimates are not relevant. What matters are estimates of future demand of resources. |
| 7-4-04 | The Japan Times | Cost
info on spent nuclear fuel quashed Costs depend also on how much the power is required in the future. Throwing away resources is only something that the US can do. |
| 6-9-04 | The Japan Times | U.S.
researcher warns MOX fuel plan is too costly It is amazing how many “nuclear power experts” the US has in Universities. Their “expertise” at best is suspect. |
| 5-27-04 | The Japan Times | U.S.
election may impact nuclear policy -- Bush, Democrats don't see eye to eye
on fuel reprocessing plants The history of reprocessing from a Japanese perspective |
| 5-21-04 | The Japan Times | Doubt
cast on nuclear recycling policy - Plans to reprocess spent fuel opposed
on grounds of danger, cost Taro Kono is seeking fame and fortune by getting his name in the papers despite his backward position. |
| 3-27-04 | The Japan Times | KEPCO
inks accord with COGEMA on MOX supply Normal business proceeds. |
| 3-21-04 | The Japan Times | KEPCO
gets formal nod to pioneer MOX fuel Moving on. |
| 3-15-04 | The Japan Times | Public
Trust said regained -- Fukui governor OKs use of MOX fuel Not quite I suspect but it is a great step on the way to trust. |
| 9-24-03 | The Japan Times | U.S.
withdrew opposition to Tokai plant: Declassified documents show that Carter
changed mind on nuclear facility Thank goodness for an occasional politician who has vision. Here Mike Mansfield turned Carter around when the latter was responding to bad advice. |
| 4-20-03 | The Japan Times | JCO
calls off plan to work with uranium Appropriately so since they violated every safety principle in their criticality incident. |
| 4-2-03 | The Japan Times | Tokai
plutonium removal figures revised While the accounting is difficult, there are processes here that appear not to be controlled. |
| 3-3-03 | The Japan Times | Six JCO employees sentenced over fatal '99 nuclear accident – all get suspended terms for negligence that left two dead |
| 1-30-03 | The Japan Times | Plutonium
shortfall at Tokai matches estimate, IAEA says Good – an immediate rejection of the previous media scare is very helpful. |
| 1-29-03 | The Japan Times | Plutonium
extracted from spent fuel is 206 kg short This represents 26 years of operation and the deposition of plutonium fines in piping and the facilities internals. |
| 1-29-03 | The Japan Times | Panel
members at odds over Monju ruling A straight appeal would be preferable to an agreement to review the reprocessing policy from the start. |
| 12-30-02 | The Japan Times | METI
to expand subsidies to promote MOX power At least Japan has a realism that demands continued progress, whatever the public position may be. |
| 12-4-02 | Channel Cincinnati.com | Ohio
Site Chosen For Nuclear Fuel Testing -- Construction To Begin In 2004 This will be a financial boon to Ohio and a radical step forward for the country if it leads to reprocessing. |
| 12-2-02 | Pittsburgh Business Journal | Westinghouse
sells nuclear fuel to French utility What goes around comes around … Circle W sells fuel to its “own” plants! |
| 11-1-02 | Greenville (TN) | NRC
Publishes Revised Notice On Nuclear Fuel Services’ Request To Amend
Its License Normal business |
| 9-28-02 | Yahoo News (Reuters) | Turkish
Police Seize Weapons-Grade Uranium |
| 9-17-02 | NucNet | Return
Fuel Shipment Arrives Back in UK |