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Louisiana Energy Services, a European-based company,
breaks ground on the first uranium enrichment facility in the U.S.
near Eunice, N.M.
by Laura Paskus,
Oct 16, 2006
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The nation’s nuclear infrastructure is aging, and in
need of very expensive – and very complicated –
retooling just to survive
by Judith Lewis,
Sep 04, 2006
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Graphics show the location of the West’s nuclear
sites and uranium sources, and the nuclear fuel cycle is
described
by Staff,
Sep 04, 2006
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The Navajo Nation is fighting to keep uranium mining off
the reservation, but eager uranium companies are determined to
mine– and the federal government is on their side
by Laura Paskus,
Sep 04, 2006
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With uranium prices rising, speculators are looking anew
at busted mining towns like Jeffrey City, Wyo., but locals have
learned to be skeptical
by Samuel Western,
Sep 04, 2006
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With global warming an increasing threat, some are urging
a return to nuclear energy, but the industry’s own checkered
past reminds us that a nuclear renaissance will be neither easy nor
cheap
by Jonathan Thompson,
Sep 04, 2006
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The writer says uranium mining and nuclear power take us
back to a past of unsolved problems
by Rhonda Claridge,
Aug 01, 2005
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Historian and professor Ferenc Szasz says comics were used
to reassure the public about nuclear issues during the 1940s and
‘50s
by Laura Paskus,
Nov 24, 2003
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Lea County, N.M., is courting Louisiana Energy Services, a
company that wants to build a uranium-enrichment facility to create
fuel for nuclear power plants
by Gail Binkly,
Oct 13, 2003
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Oregon may set a precedent with its planned transformation
of the defunct Trojan nuclear power plant into a state
park.
by Martin John Brown,
Nov 20, 2000
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