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Gift of salt for Czech research program
A Czech nuclear research institute has received a shipment of fluoride salt from the US Department of Energy. The ?ež research institute is conducting studies into the use of the salt as a coolant in high-temperature nuclear reactors. The provision of such raw materials is provided for under a memorandum of understanding signed by the [...]
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Hamburg: Burning ship had tonnes of uranium hexafluoride
After a freighter went up in flames at the start of the month while carrying radioactive material into Hamburg’s harbour, it has emerged that the German port city receives such hazardous cargo up to seven times a month. Fire fighters said they had only narrowly been able to prevent a catastrophe on May 1st when [...]
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Czech, US cooperate in developing new reactors
PRAGUE (AP) — The United States says it has completed a transfer of 75 kilograms (165 pounds) of salt coolant material to the Czech Republic as part of cooperation between the two countries in developing new nuclear reactors. The U.S. Embassy in Prague says the fluoride salt comes from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge [...]
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Ohio: Honeywell ramping up to reopen; Metropolis plant will start up in June
Honeywell is calling back employees for a scheduled June reopening of its Metropolis plant. The chemical plant converts uranium ore into uranium hexafluoride, UF6, a compound used to produce enriched uranium for use as fuel in nuclear power plants. About 135 salaried and 135 hourly employees will be in place when the Metropolis Works facility [...]
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Will Cameco Bid For Urenco?
Cameco (CCJ) is a Canadian company best known for mining uranium and accounting for 16% of world uranium production from its operating mines in North America and Kazakhstan. Cameco has a market capitalization of $7.85B and is listed on Yahoo Finance with a forward P/E of 15.51. Trading just below $20.00 at the time of [...]
Canada, Ontario Nuclear Industry -
Two million gallons of hydrofluoric acid shipped by DUF6 project
LEXINTON, KY. — Babcock & Wilcox Conversion Services announces that the DUF6 [depleted uranium hexafluoride] Project has safely shipped more than two million gallons of hydrofluoric acid (HF) since it began conversion operations. More than one million gallons have been shipped from each of the two plants located in Piketon, OH and Paducah, KY. The [...]
United States, Kentucky Nuclear Industry -
Energy’s Latest Battleground: Fracking For Uranium
This story appears in the February 11, 2013 issue of Forbes. No tour of Uranium Energy Corp.’s processing plant in Hobson, Tex. is complete until CEO Amir Adnani pries the top off a big black steel drum and invites you to peer inside. There, filled nearly to the brim, is an orange-yellow powder that UEC [...]
United States, Texas Nuclear Industry -
Y-12: Oak Ridge treasure — national resource/A look back at Union Carbide’s first 20 years in nuclear energy
Union Carbide Nuclear Division, which started out as Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Co., operated the Atomic Energy Commission/Energy Research and Development Administration/Department of Energy sites in Oak Ridge, Paducah, Ky., and Portsmouth, Ohio, until 1984, some 40 years. The report this series of articles are documenting covered only the first 20 years. I am working [...]
United States, Tennessee Nuclear Industry -
DOE Issues Request for Quotations for Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Technical Services
Cincinnati – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for engineering and operations technical services to support the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office and the oversight of operations of the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Project located in Paducah KY, and Portsmouth OH. The RFQ is for a Time-and-Materials Task [...]
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Nuclear energy: Radical reactors
For decades, one design has dominated nuclear reactors while potentially better options were left by the wayside. Now, the alternatives might finally have their day. Back in 2000, when Kirk Sorensen was a NASA engineer looking at nuclear-power options for future colonies on the Moon, he came across a book that described the molten-salt reactor: [...]
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