Uranium of the Sea – and How to Get It – and Why

This is interesting, but it doesn’t seem quite enough: Japan developed an adsorbent that attaches the uranium-loving chemical group ami...

OECD and The Slowdown that Wasn’t

Nuclear energy, you may have heard, is not universally beloved and some countries would like to banish it from their shores. ( Switzerland i...

Will Australia’s Carbon Price Lead It to Rethink Nuclear?

Australia has decided to put a price on carbon in the hope that it can kick-start its renewable energy i ndustry and reduce emissions .  ...

Seeing Red: What a New Mining Report Says About The Rebirth of an Industry

For those of you who tend a bit more to the wonkish end of things, a new joint study from the OECD and IAEA on the world’s supply of urani...

Hitting Pay Dirt in Australia

We published a sour editorial the other day from Australia to show we had to go down under for a negative view of our loan guarantee. But le...

E. Coli and Recovering Uranium

We thought to call this post “Diseased Waste,” but decided it wasn’t only inaccurate but sounded like a death metal band. When we hear E. c...

USEC Gets a Reprieve

Or even wins. Note the two posts about USEC below – it’s all about the company’s American Centrifuge project and DOE’s rejection of its loa...

USEC Takes It to the Streets

We generally think protests and protesting are good things. They are ways of getting a message out and trying to bring attention to issues....

Snafu: Situation Normal at DOE…

…but all fouled up at USEC, the company that enriches a lot of the uranium in the United States. The Department of Energy has turned down ...

Nuclear Energy in Australia? Someday – Maybe

Bloomberg reports on the growing realization in Australia that its ambitious carbon emission reduction goals may be hard to achieve without...

Russia and America – Nuclear BFFs?

Well, that’s going a little far – and silly, to boot. But the Russians have actually found a way to do a little nuclear business on this si...

Scientific American on Nuclear Energy

And a lot of interesting information on uranium, too. When I worked at Scientific American during the late eighties, the rule for the magaz...

Public Comments on Uranium Study in Virginia

For those of us who are interested in the developments pertaining to the domestic mining of uranium, you may find it noteworthy that perhaps...

The Infrastructure of the Renaissance

If nuclear energy is going to push forward to a true international renaissance, it’s not enough to apply for licenses and and clear some la...

Next Big Future: How Long Can Uranium Last for Nuclear Power?

If we use breeder reactors, uranium can last for 5 billion years at double current world electricity usage .

CNN Piece on Kazakhstan's Uranium Boom

Check out the detailed piece from CNNMoney on how Kazakhstan's uranium industry has taken off .

NY Times Blog on the High Uranium Prices

Stephen Dubner at the New York Times' Freakonomics blog explained some of the reasons for the high uranium spot prices seen over the pa...

INL Reached a Milestone on Nuclear Fuel Performance

From ScienceDaily : The research to improve the performance of coated-particle nuclear fuel met an important milestone by reaching a burnup ...

In the Interest of Uranium Miners

Of course, the increased interest in nuclear energy excites attention in parts of the United States where mining represents a substantial sh...

Virginia Uranium Mining Study Delayed Until 2009

According to NewsAdvance, science lost to politics : Virginia Uranium and its allies in the Assembly proposed a study, as a first step, to e...