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Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.
The Department of Energy said Thursday it no longer expects to give $30 million for demonstration work at a uranium-enrichment plant in southern Ohio.
The Canadian developer of a planned uranium mine in southwest South Dakota can move ahead with its request for a federal permit, one of four needed to operate.
USEC Inc. said Monday about 120 employees and more than 850 workers for suppliers have lost their jobs since the Energy Department delayed a final review of the company's application for a $2 billion loan guarantee to finance a uranium-enrichment plant in southern Ohio.
Utah's Radiation Control Board Tuesday refused to block the disposal of depleted uranium in the state, clearing the way for shipments next month of the low-level radioactive waste.
A week after saying it wouldn't guarantee a loan for the project, the Obama administration is now offering more time to a company planning a uranium enrichment plant in southern Ohio.
Department of Energy officials will not guarantee a loan to a company that had been developing a uranium enrichment plant project in southern Ohio, saying Tuesday that the facility has promise but they don't believe it's ready to move forward.
The leader of the Navajo Nation marked the 30th anniversary of a massive uranium tailings spill by reaffirming the tribe's ban on future uranium mining.
The last remaining bomb-grade uranium has been shipped out of Romania as part of a U.S.-Russian nuclear nonproliferation program, the Energy Department reported Tuesday.
After repudiating negotiations on dismantling its plutonium-based nuclear program, North Korea admitted this month to having an even more worrying way to make bombs.
The federal government plans to spend up to $3 million a year to demolish and rebuild uranium-contaminated structures across the Navajo Nation, where Cold War-era mining of the radioactive substance left a legacy of disease and death.
Russia's uranium export company signed a groundbreaking $1 billion package of contracts Tuesday to supply three U.S. utilities with enriched fuel for nuclear power plants, Russian atomic industry officials said.
In Mississippi County, where nearly a fourth of the residents live in poverty, farmers have a long history of making a living off what springs from the flat, fertile lowlands — soybeans, corn, timber.
Kazakhstan increased uranium production by almost one-third in 2008, but fell short of its previous output projection of more than 9,000 tons amid falling demand, the state-owned nuclear energy company said Thursday.
Enough processed uranium to make six nuclear weapons was secretly transported thousands of miles by truck, rail and ship on a monthlong trip from a research reactor in Budapest, Hungary, to a facility in Russia so it could be more closely protected against theft, U.S. officials revealed Wednesday.
Cattleman George Glasier sees the next nuclear era amid the blood-orange mesas of the Paradox Valley, the same western range lands that hold a darker legacy from the last rush to pull uranium from the ground.
The Defense Ministry said Thursday it was investigating whether 66 pounds of uranium found buried by a roadside in southern Bogota was material being sought by leftist rebels.
Colombia is worried about a document on the laptop of a slain rebel leader indicating the guerrillas were trying to obtain uranium, but has no evidence they intended to use it as a weapon, the vice president said Wednesday.
Jean Hediger can stand at the edge of her organic wheat farm and look west to the Rockies, east toward this speck-in-the-road town and straight ahead into what she sees as her worst nightmare.
California's big reds are coming on strong these days as winemakers pursue riper, fuller-flavored fruit.
The United States tentatively has agreed to allow limited imports of uranium from Russia, suspending an antidumping investigation that has been in place for decades, according to a filing by the Commerce Department.
Russia responded with silence Thursday after Georgia revealed a foiled effort by a Russian man to sell weapons-grade uranium, an episode that appeared to cast doubt on the nation's ability to halt the black market trade in nuclear materials.
It was one of the most serious cases of smuggling of nuclear material in recent years: A Russian man, authorities allege, tried to sell a small amount of nuclear-bomb grade uranium in a plastic bag in his jacket pocket.
A tractor-trailer hauling about 6,000 pounds of low-grade uranium overturned Thursday as it exited Interstate 95, authorities said.
The Hindu : International : Mottaki dismisses sanctions threatDUBAI: Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said he does not expect fresh sanctions against Iran as imposition of internationally approved economic curbs has become outdated.
Iran rejects sending uranium abroad, considers swaps - Haaretz - Israel NewsIran said on Wednesday it would not send its enriched uranium abroad for further processing but would consider swapping it for nuclear fuel and keeping it under supervision inside the country, the ISNA news agency said.
Sharp rise in birth defects in Iraqi city destroyed by US militaryAffects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were felt for decades; Iraq also got the dose of depleted uranium
Iran Rejects Deal to Ship Out Uranium, Officials Report Iran told the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Thursday that it would not accept a plan its negotiators agreed to last week to send its stockpile of uranium out of the country, according to diplomats in Europe and American officials briefed on Iran's response.
Iran leader: No 'retreat' over nuclear programMahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that Tehran will not give up its nuclear program, but noted that the West and Iran are now cooperating.
Both Iran and West Fear a Trap on Uranium DealJust before international inspectors on Sunday were guided for the first time into an Iranian nuclear enrichment plant whose existence was a state secret until recently, the speaker of Iran's Parliament warned his countrymen to beware of American efforts to "cheat" Iran out …
Iran To Turn Down Uranium Deal One sign that an adversary isn't serious about negotiating is when it rejects even your concessions. That seemed to be the case yesterday when Iran gave signs it may turn down an offer from Russia, Europe and the U.S.
Iran lawmaker rejects draft nuclear dealIran's deputy parliament speaker dismisses an internationally backed draft plan to have Tehran ship its uranium abroad for enrichment, the official IRNA news agency says.
Iran lawmaker rejects draft nuclear dealIran's deputy parliament speaker dismisses an internationally backed draft plan to have Tehran ship its uranium abroad for enrichment, the official IRNA news agency says.
Iran Says It's Ready to Ship Uranium Stocks to Russia (Update2) - Bloomberg.comOct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Iran said it is ready to accept a deal under which Russia would supply it with enriched uranium for a research reactor, improving the prospects for broader talks aimed at allaying Western concerns that the Persian Gulf country seeks an atomic bomb.
Enriching Iran's Uranium: Obama Gives Iran's Nuke Program a Helping HandWashington Post columnist David Ignatius passes on a report in Nucleonics Week that Iran's uranium enrichment may be stuck at 3.5% due to impurities.
Iran accepts draft nuke deal 'in principle'Iran has accepted a draft agreement that calls for some uranium produced in Iran to be sent abroad for further enrichment, an Iranian diplomat said Wednesday.
Chavez says Iran helping Venezuela find uranium COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday Iran is helping his country explore for uranium, but stressed his government would only seek to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
US Turns its Eye on the Baluchi Factor: BaluchistanAs fighting in Afghanistan, particularly the south, intensifies U.S.
Iran says some countries offer it nuclear fuelPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that some countries had offered to provide Iran with uranium enriched to 20 percent for use as nuclear reactor fuel, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Iran has sufficient information to build nuclear bomb: reportUnited Nations: A confidential analysis by members of the UN nuclear watchdog concludes Iran has "sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable" nuclear bomb, the New York Times reported.
Iran Agrees to Send Enriched Uranium to Russia Iran agreed on Thursday in talks with the United States and other major powers to open its newly revealed uranium enrichment plant near Qum to international inspection in the next two weeks and to send most of its openly declared enriched uranium outside Iran to be turned into fu …
OPEC sells oil to the world; so why can't the world powers who already possess nuclear weapons get together to produce nuclear power plants for countries who want power, but do not have the means to produce it themselves.
'3rd party will enrich Iran's uranium.' By Yaakov Katz, Hilary Leila Krieger and AP. ep 30, 2009 21:29 | Updated Oct 1, 2009 6:00 A day before Western leaders were scheduled to open talks with Iran in Switzerland, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Wednesday that he was prepared to let a third party enrich uranium to the grade his country required for its nuclear reactor, rather than carry o …
Ritter Interview on IranFormer UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter joins us to discuss what he calls "politically motivated hype" over Iran's nuclear program. The Obama administration has warned of sanctions unless Iran allows inspections of a newly disclosed nuclear site.
The U.S.-Iranian TriangleNEW YORK - France and Germany fought three wars in 70 years before the bright idea dawned of enfolding their problem into something larger: the European Union. The United States and Iran have not gone to war but have a relationship of psychotic mistrust.
Venezuela seeking uranium with Iran's helpMaybe Obama can help get this deal done.
G-8: Iran has deadline on uranium enrichmentPressure deepens against Iran when the world's eight top economic powers gives Tehran until year's end to cease enriching uranium or face new sanctions.
Obama Cuts off Iranians Marching, Dying for Liberty: Kills Funding for Initiatives - Atlas ShrugsCongressional Research Service report--May 19, 2009--Obama has hung the Iranian democracy protesters out to dry in the 2010 budget. Wicked. Page 44: As shown, $67 million has been appropriated for Iran democracy promotion ($19.6 million through DRL and $48.6 million through the …
Kim Jong Il Reportedly Calls for Third Nuclear TestNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Il, during his most recent meeting with party and military leaders, reportedly gave instructions that the reclusive regime prepare for a third nuclear test, this time using enriched uranium, according to reports from Free Radio of North Korea, based i …
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