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Jun. 7—Advocates for New Mexico downwinders and former uranium miners minced no words this week about House leadership not holding a vote to extend a law that provides compensation to people ...
(Reuters) -Uranium prices gained on Friday after Russia imposed temporary restrictions on the export of enriched uranium to the United States. The move by Russia, the world's largest supplier of ...
Canada's uranium miners, confident that only they can meet U.S. demand for the element after Russian supply curbs, have accelerated output and forward contracts to supply U.S energy companies, but ...
The Elliot Lake Miners Strike was a wildcat strike by approximately 1,000 uranium miners who worked at Denison uranium mine in the Elliot Lake area of Ontario, Canada. [1] [2] The strike was the first time that Canadian workers had taken industrial action over safety concerns, and it led to Ontario Premier Bill Davis creating a royal commission which led to the creation of new health and ...
Areas covered by the Radiation Exposure Compensation Program. The United States Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) is a federal statute implemented in 1990, set to expire in July 2024, providing for the monetary compensation of people, including atomic veterans, who contracted cancer and a number of other specified diseases as a direct result of their exposure to atmospheric nuclear ...
Uranium is a chemical element with the symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-grey metal in the actinide series of the periodic table. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons. Uranium radioactively decays, usually by emitting an alpha particle.
Despite all sorts of good news for nuclear energy stocks in general in 2024, the year was not a great one for uranium miners like Uranium Energy in particular. In the face of a stock market that ...
The McArthur River Uranium Mine, in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, is the world's largest high-grade uranium deposit. The mine is owned by Cameco (70%), and Orano Canada (30%) (formerly Areva Resources Canada , formerly COGEMA Resources Inc.) Cameco is the mine operator.