Nuclear News: Uranium shortage looming
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Today's big stories from the nuclear industry:
Resource Investor: Uranium shortage looming
‘An official at China’s National Energy Administration recently stated that the country would stockpile uranium and buy overseas deposits in order to avert domestic shortages. With such an aggressive nuclear power agenda, China clearly recognizes the need to secure future uranium supply.’
ABC: Australia sells more uranium to China
‘Australia is set to ramp up its uranium sales to China which is embarking on a dramatic program of building nuclear power stations. ’
Informante: Trekkopje strikes ‘yellow cake’
‘THE AREVA Namibia Resources technical team has achieved major breakthroughs in its activities by extracting uranium in an alkali heap leach using an alkali leach solution.’
The Economist: Did EDF, France’s nuclear-energy giant, spy on Greenpeace?
‘IN JUNE 2008 French members of Greenpeace, an environmental campaign group, blockaded three quarries supplying sand and gravel to the building site of a new nuclear-power plant at Flamanville in northern France. Greenpeace, a fierce opponent of nuclear power, boasted that it had delayed construction for EDF, which is the world’s largest operator of nuclear reactors. EDF now stands accused of making an illegal intrusion of its own in its struggle to contain Greenpeace.’
YLE: Lithuanian President Promises to Close Ignalina Nuke
‘On a visit to Helsinki on Thursday, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus said that the Ignalina nuclear power plant's second reactor will be closed despite the looming threat of an energy shortage in the country.’
Democracy Now: Hanford Nuclear Reservation: A Look at the Nation’s Most Polluted Nuclear Weapons Production Site
‘We speak with investigative report Karen Dorn Steele about the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the nation’s most polluted nuclear weapons production site. Steele won a 1994 George Polk Award for a newspaper series on squandered money in the $50 billion Hanford nuclear cleanup.’
Bloomberg: Tokyo Electric May Reopen Nuclear Reactor in May, Mainichi Says
‘Tokyo Electric Power Co. may restart its nuclear power plant at Kashiwazaki Kariwa next month after closing it in 2007 following an earthquake, the Mainichi newspaper said, without saying where it got the information.’
Reuters: France seals nuclear, aid deals with Tunisia
‘France concluded a nuclear cooperation deal and an 80 million-euro ($104.2 million) aid package for Tunisia during a visit by its prime minister to the country, the two governments said on Thursday.’
