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After Rare Protest, China Cancels Plans for Uranium Plant
2013-07-13 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: One day after a rare public protest, Chinese authorities said Saturday that they were abandoning plans to construct a uranium processing plant in southeastern China, where residents raised concerns about its safety and potential environmental impact. The decision not to proceed with the plant in Guangdong Province, less than 60 miles from Hong Kong, came after hundreds of people turned out on Friday and took a walk through the city of Jiangmen carrying banners showing their opposition to the...
China cancels $6 billion uranium project after protest
2013-07-13 06:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China has abruptly canceled plans to build its largest uranium processing plant in a southern Chinese city, a day after hundreds of protesters took to the streets demanding the project be scrapped, a local government website said on Saturday. The proposed 230-hectare complex in the heart of China's Pearl River delta industrial heartland in Guangdong province had also sparked unease in neighboring Hong Kong and Macau. Authorities in the gambling enclave had formally raised the issue with their...
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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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Nations biggest uranium mine planned in New Mexico
2013-05-21 10:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Two foreign-owned mining companies, betting that the world will quickly forget the horrors of Fukushima, plan to sink a pair of shafts into the rugged New Mexico landscape near near Mt. Taylor and begin 0perating the nations biggest uranium mine. If approved by the U.S. Forest Service and state agencies, the mine would be the first of its kind to operate in the state in more than a decade, extracting as much as 28 million pounds of the radioactive heavy metal and desecrating as many as 70 acres...
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DEQ, Cameco at odds over uranium well violation
2013-04-23 01:25:02| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality and a uranium company disagree whether problems occurred at a well at an in-situ mine north of Glenrock.
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