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Uranium North Resources Appoints Vice President of Exploration
Uranium North Resources Corp. (TSX VENTURE:UNR) announces the appointment of Dr. Allan E. Armitage as Vice President of Exploration. Allan will lead Uranium North’s exploration team and manage the Company’s exploration programs in Nunavut and Saskatchewan.
As a professional geologist with over 20 years experience both internationally and [...]

MPhil / PhD Studentship of Skills Forecasting For The Nuclear Industry in Lancashire Business School

A full-time MPhil/PhD funded studentship is available in the Lancashire Business School. The studentship is tenable up to 3 years (subject to satisfactory progress) with an expected commencement date of 1 January 2008. The studentship will cover the cost of tuition fees at UK/EU and Overseas rates plus a maintenance based grant of £12,940.
This project [...]

Beginning of the end for uranium bans

The rejection of WA Labor’s political ban on uranium mining and the formation of the Barnett-Grylls Government signal the beginning of the end of ideologically-based state government bans on uranium development around Australia.
The former WA premier, Alan Carpenter, gave two reasons for a ban, claiming first that permitting uranium mining would lead inevitably to the [...]

Uranium mining: Centre`s fresh bid to break deadlock

Raja will be the third emissary after Atomic Energy Development (AED) chairman Anil Kakodkar and Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrashekhar to visit the state within a span of one month to break the ice over uranium mining issue, a project that has hung fire since the last one and half decades due to protests from [...]

For a secure energy future, allow uranium mining

Banning uranium mining isn’t unique to Arizona. The nation’s largest-known uranium deposit was discovered in the 1980s on a farm in southern Virginia. The owner of that land has been exploring the possibility of mining the 110 million pounds of uranium believed to be on the site. But Virginia banned uranium mining in 1982, and [...]

Premier promises laws to ban uranium mining

The Premier is in Albany, where he has made a commitment to renewable energy and promised that a Labor government would spend $7 million providing financial incentives for new renewable power technology.”There are currently 440 operating reactors, 34 under construction, another 81 being planned for construction, and another 200-plus being planned and scoped.
“There’s almost a [...]

Uranium mining, nuclear power and ‘ethical’ investment

A recent Corporate Watch Australia survey reveals that many so-called ethical investment funds invest in uranium mining.
The number has risen significantly in recent years. Some fund managers justify investment in uranium with questionable arguments about nuclear power and climate change, but the primary reason for the shift is probably BHP Billiton’s entry into the [...]

Production of Uranium Prices Perhaps on The Rebound?

VANCOUVER (ResourceInvestor.com) — For investors, bad news can be good news depending which side of the trade they’re on. In the case of uranium plays, investors in top dog Cameco [TSX:CCO | NYSE:CCJ] and fast riser Uranium One [TSX:UUU] may not be happy with more warnings of production shortfalls. But it’s handy news for general [...]

Uranium Energy ready to ramp up drilling on Nichols field

Uranium Energy Corp. says it’s finalized its drilling plans for its Nichols project south of San Antonio.
The Austin energy company says plans call for 30 exploration holes at the 900-acre field in Karnes County. Uranium Energy has received permit approval from the Texas Railroad Commission’s Division of Surface Mining. Drilling is scheduled to start next [...]

Uranium exploration companies starting to withdraw

Claiming the government bowed to pressure from various local lobby groups in declaring a ban on all uranium exploration, Sparton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: SRI) a Toronto-based company with $9 million in assets last year, announced Monday it would be suspending its New Brunswick uranium program.
“We can’t do uranium now,” said Sparton chairman Edward Thompson. [...]