Guest contributor Alex Burns studies biology at Cardiff University in Wales. Richard Handl, an amateur Swedish scientist, attempted to produce binary fission in the comfort of his own home. The unemployed 31-year-old told the press that he was only doing it as a hobby. Handle kept a blog of his experiments over the past few [...]
Source: Voice of America The world observes the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster (April 26th, 1986) tomorrow, the worst nuclear accident in history. The Fukushima debacle in Japan following the earthquake and tsunami last month has thrust Chernobyl back into the spotlight, for better or worse, as a comparative example for scientists, politicians and [...]
So following the near meltdown of several reactors at Fukushima Nuclear Power, it’s dead is it? Well, to follow one FT article, you could be mistaken for thinking that will be the likely outcome. As the article reports, impact on the industry has been dramatic, from miners like Cameco, a major Canadian uranium producer, whose [...]
Japan consumes about 8 to 12 percent of the world’s uranium supply, depending on which source you reference. Of course, nearly a dozen of the country’s 55 nuclear plants is not consuming any uranium post-tsunami; instead, engineers are hastily employing methods “ from improvised containment to cooling fuel rods with seawater “ to prevent any [...]
Source: Mining-journal.com 1. “China Doing To Uranium What It Has Done To Copper One of our most recent posts, this article is already one of the 2010′s best viewed. Stuart looks at China’s effect on a pretty “hot minor metal market in terms of news this year: uranium. 2. “Ferrochrome Prices Continue Their Relentless Rise [...]
Is there any metal or, indeed, commodity in which China is not making the running — where China’s rising demand is not creating a wholly new dynamic in the global supply market? After some thought, one might have ventured uranium, that metal long dependent on the established generating markets of the old order “ Russia, [...]
As the cold air settles in here in Chicago and we each contemplate a Thanksgiving meal with our families, we here at MetalMiner would like to take the time to thank each and every one of you, whether this represents your first visit or your 100th for your loyalty, support, commentary, emails etc. With your [...]
Uranium is a metal we do not cover very often but as a material with a key role in power generation and an active spot market it deserves periodic review. Interestingly the market has been moving up. Just last month a Bloomberg article called out advice from Macquarie Group of significant risk of higher prices [...]
