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On the advice of a friend, I just visited the New York Times web site to read a story from November 16, 2010 titled When Uranium Outshines Gold . Since I understand how quickly web advertising can change, I thought I would capture the view that I saw when I read the article. It is a visual reminder of...

Peter Hessler has published a valuable piece of journalism titled The Uranium Widows (subscription required) in the September 13, 2010 issue of The New Yorker that demonstrates the importance of a questioning attitude and penetrating research skills. He visits a uranium mining region, including...

In my current assignment, I make my living as an analyst. However, I happen to be in a profession that does not do analysis as its main line of work. My employer understands the need to do research and perform the math, but it is far more interested in obtaining and implementing recommended actions....

During the Senate Republican Conference Hearing on building 100 new nuclear plants over the next 20 years, Senator Robert Bennett asked the witnesses if there were any additional options that should be considered for an American economy that has always been blessed with access to abundant, cheap energy...

One of the clubs used to batter atomic power advocates is the old story of indigenous people exploitation during the uranium mining boom of the 1950s and 1960s. The way the story is told, the uranium extracted from Navajo tribal land came at great cost to the health and welfare of the miners and their...

On January 28, 2009, the Senate Foreign Relations committee invited former Vice President Al Gore in to testify about global climate change at its first major policy related hearing of the current Congress. Through the amazing tool of C-span video, I watched and listened carefully to the entire hearing...

I have forgotten to mention an article in World Nuclear News from June 2008 that you might want to keep handy as a reference. It is titled Exploration drives uranium resources up 17% . Here is the lede from that article: Current economic uranium resources will last for over 100 years at current consumption...

On June 3, 2008, Apache Energy's Varanus Island gas production facility off the coast of Western Australia experienced an explosion and fire in one of two pipelines carrying gas from the large processing plant to the mainland. The fire spread and caused damage to the second pipeline. The accident...

About a month ago, I wrote about a large uranium deposit in Virginia located under a family farm named Coles Hill owned by Mr. Walter Coles, a retired US government employee. ( Coal mining versus uranium mining in Virginia ) One aspect of the story that intrigued me was the fact that even studying the...

I have recently read two articles that struck me as important because of an interesting contrast in attitudes and legal treatment. Both of them discuss mining for valuable, but potentially hazardous materials in the commonwealth of Virginia. On Sunday, January 13, my wife and I had a marvelous Sunday...

The price increases experienced in the uranium market during the past 7 years has resulted in predictable behavior - exploration and mining operations are increasing. The clear signal sent by the market is that uranium is a desirable product, one that the customers need and that the suppliers can provide...

I fully expect that by the time you read this, Reuters will have made a correction, but I was surprised this morning to find a link in my daily Google Alert on the terms "nuclear fuel recycle" labeled Aveva (emphasis added) considering reopening U.S. uranium mines . The lead for the article...

Phosphate deposits often contain substantial quantities of uranium with concentrations ranging from a few parts per million to as much as 600 ppm. The spoils left over from phosphate mining for fertilizer can contain even higher concentrations that are in a form suitable for chemical recovery of the...

Sparton Resources is interested in coal ash, specifically ash from lignite burning coal plants located in areas of the globe where the lignite contains higher than normal levels of uranium. Since uranium oxides are not flammable, the uranium oxide gets left behind in the ash, so there is the potential...