Uranium Exploration Near Grand Canyon
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With minimal public notice and no formal environmental review, the Forest Service is allowing a British firm to explore for uranium near Grand Canyon National Park.
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PODOLSK, Russia, Aug. 29 -- Heavily guarded trucks rolled up to the Luch nuclear institute here on Tuesday night and unloaded five green reinforced containers holding a total of 21 pounds of uranium, about a third of it highly enriched, which had been quietly removed from a research reactor in...
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NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has come across  an interesting object&nbsp;-- perhaps a meteorite sitting out in the open at Meridiani  Planum. Initial data taken by the robot's Mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer  (Mini-TES) is suggestive that the odd-looking rock is made of  metal.
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The Bureau of Land Management is asking Utahns interested in managing and conserving federal land to try out for a place on an advisory resource council.
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SXR Uranium One agreed to buy UrAsia Energy for $3.1 billion to form the worldâs second-largest uranium producer as rising demand for nuclear fuel drives prices to records. SXR, owner of South Africaâs largest undeveloped uranium deposit, bid 7.05 Canadian dollars ($6.01) a share for UrAsia, which is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, and owns mines in Central Asia. That was 13 percent more than UrAsiaâs Feb. 9 closing price in Toronto, the companies said. SXRâs stock rose 6.8 percent to a record. The combined company, once all its mines are operating, will trail only Cameco in production and be the only producer in Kazakhstan, South Africa, Australia, the United States and Canada, the five largest holders of uranium deposits.
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SNOWBIRD - The mining industry helped build Utah&#39;s economy, but boom-time digging led to a modern-day landscape pockmarked with holes that once produced silver, gold, copper and lead.
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Geiger counters were a hot item in this small town a half century ago. Nearly every business, including the pool hall, sold the instruments to wannabe uranium prospectors.
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GRAND CANYON, Arizona  - Maryellen Fleming-Hoffman manages a gift store on the plunging rim of the Grand Canyon, where visitors come to marvel at one of the world's greatest attractions.
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Storing nuclear waste underground at Yucca Mountain for 100,000 years is a terrible idea. A better approach may be to buy some time--until new containment technologies mature.
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  An amazing new tool for dating ancient remains, a luminescence geochronology laboratory, has been installed at Utah State University.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Dec. 17--Al Puckett remembers the 1960s when Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant supervisors ordered a worker to bury uranium waste in a gravel pit west of the plant on Saturdays.
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The remains of two dinosaurs believed to be millions of years old were discovered in southern Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. They have been covered in plaster jackets and will be flown out of the remote area to the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City.
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By Frank Munger, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Feb. 28--OAK RIDGE -- The K-25 plant is badly deteriorated and thoroughly  contaminated with uranium and a host of other hazardous materials.
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Canadian miner Uranium One said it had approved Australia's fourth uranium mine, the Honeymoon project in the South Australian outback.
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By JOHN ARNOLD Journal Staff Writer  LOS ALAMOS -- Environmental managers at Los Alamos National Laboratory can only guess at what's buried in Material Disposal Area B, one of the lab's oldest radioactive landfills.
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Genesis engineers and scientists have wrapped the crash site of the solar-wind collecting probe, with hopes of recovering mission objectives. A few disk fragments have been sent to California researchers, but NASA scientists are still working in Utah to preserve the bulk of the cargo.
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SAN JOSE MINE, Bolivia  - Roger Mamani rides a rickety elevator deep underground, hikes through flooded tunnels and crawls through a maze of muddy burrows to dig silver ore at the San Jose mine in Bolivia's Andes.