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Fukushima meltdowns latest victims: American uranium jobs
2013-05-27 21:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In comic books, radioactive disasters make stuff be massive. But in the real world, the Fukushima meltdown of 2009 is having the opposite effect on the worldwide nuclear power sector. The sector is rapidly shrinking from the Hulk that it used to be, leading the U.S. government to announce on Friday that it is jumping out of the unprofitable uranium enrichment business. The Energy Department is closing the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in western Kentucky at the end of the month. The plant...
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