Among the many points of disagreement between Iran and the U.S. during the current conflict is the fate of Tehran’s highly ...

Safety measures and the transport of hazardous materials Since February, semitrucks filled with radioactive uranium ore have departed the Pinyon Plain Mine at the crack of dawn, beginning a 320-mile ...

One year after Energy Fuels Inc. resumed transporting uranium ore through the Navajo Nation from its Pinyon Plain Mine near the Grand Canyon to the White Mesa Mill in southern Utah, the Navajo ...

Despite safety assurances, the trucking of radioactive uranium ore across Native lands has some tribal members living in fear of contamination.

A comprehensive guide to uranium, explaining its extraction, enrichment process, nuclear chain reactions, and its role in global geopolitics.

The rise of a new generation of radiotherapies means we will soon need much greater quantities of radioactive atoms. That's ...

In the early 1980s, southeast Utah was targeted as a potential dump site for high-level nuclear waste, the kind that comes from nuclear reactors. The Department of Energy considered storing 8,000 tons ...

PIKE COUNTY, Ohio (WKRC) - Former employees of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS) and government documents verify radioactive gas from the core of a uranium enrichment cascade was ...

Uranium is a naturally occurring silvery-white radioactive element which has the atomic number of 92 and chemical symbol U in ...

TUBA CITY ― Brown Preston was in his early 20s when he and six of his relatives took jobs at a uranium mine in Uravan, Colorado. It was one of the only good jobs available on the Navajo Nation in the ...

Still, the raw uranium ore is classified by federal law as the lowest level of radioactive material transported on roads and highways. “I believe that the hazards posed by a uranium truck transporting ...