Articles related to "Uranium"

In recent years, uranium has become one of the hottest commodities to invest in. What follows is an introduction to nuclear power and the growing global demand

Uranium One's US$1.5 billion takeover of Energy Metals will place SXR among the world's top two uranium producers by 2013.

A Canadian company owns a vast uranium mine set to benefit from soaring uranium prices, increased exports to China and Australia's decision to allow more uranium mining.

Uranium. It's nature's heaviest naturally occurring element. Tom Zoellner examines the history, science, and politics surrounding this controversial metal.

Depleted uranium in ammunition rounds and missiles used by the US in Iraq has been linked to health risks including cancers, tumours, birth defects and Gulf War Syndrome.

After being enriched, a finger-tip-size uranium fuel pellet stores as much energy as 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas, 1.8 thousand pounds of coal or 149 gallons of oil.

Uranium mining stocks showed a dramatic increase in value in only a few years based on the supply crunch for uranium. Uranium mining stocks still have profit potential.

Australian Prime Minster Kevin Rudd has announced a new nuclear weapons ban initiative after visiting the site of the first nuclear attack in Hiroshima.

In 1942, a "secret city" sprang up in a Tennessee valley, as Allied scientists raced to beat the Germans at developing enriched uranium to fuel the first atomic bomb.

Nuclear power plants provide about one-fifth of the world's electricity. How do they work? And why do they produce radioactive waste that will remain toxic for centuries?

Hop on a bus at Tennessee's American Museum of Science and Energy and travel back to WW II, to the Cold War, and on to today's world-class sub-atomic research facilities.

ABC aired a documentary special that indicates unprotected uranium supplies in the US.

A look at some of the investment opportunities in the precious metals sector including gold, silver, platinum, titanium and uranium.

This article discusses another application of nuclear energy - Propulsion. Construction and working of the mechanism are discussed in brief.

The central nucleus of an atom, is composed of tiny particles called protons and neutrons, held together by forces of enormous magnitude.

Nuclear power draws on the energy contained within an atom to generate electricity.

Nuclear energy is becoming popular again in the search for alternative energy supplies. Though using nuclear power raises some serious concerns, it also has its benefits

Most people are aware of the destructive force held within an atomic weapon, but what are physical forces are conspiring in order to cause such a violent explosion?

Recent evidence reveals that Iran has taken steps that could indicate the renewal of its nuclear weapons program.

This article discusses the concerns surrounding nuclear waste and the current methods used to get rid of them.

Laser drill technology can quickly sink geothermal wells down to where water can be piped in and high-energy steam returned to run electrical power plants.

IRGC top brass in the Middle East continue their contingency tests to counter a foreign attack against Iran's nuclear facilities and key infrastructure.

This topic discusses the importance of nuclear energy today and explains the construction and working of a nuclear power plant.

The research on atomic theories performed with the ZEEP reactor at Chalk River, Ontario, lead to the large scale atomic reactors providing nuclear power today.

In 2009, the shaping dynamic between supply and demand for raw materials in emerging markets means good news for miners in the medium to long-term.

A major news item of 2006 was the mysterious death of former Russian agent, Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned using an isotope of the metal, polonium.

Many science fiction novels use the idea of a separate and magical pocket universes.

Dr. Lise Meitner discovered and named the process of nuclear fission, refusing to let tradition, politics, rivalries, or even Hitler stand in the way of science.

Nuclear Power has been ignored in the past in favor of alternative energy sources. Here are the pros and cons of the nuclear option in the fight against global warming.

Investors can virtually own an international trade business in the mining industry through a series of modest purchases of this blue-chip Exchange Traded Fund.

Pakistan's nuclear warheads are more of a risk in the region. Political tensions rise after the assassination of Bhutto, political unrest, and Musharraf's fall from grace

In nuclear fusion reactions light atoms such as hydrogen fuse into heavier elements. In nuclear fission reactions heavy atoms such as uranium split.

Everyone knows that Amazon.com sells more than books; a person can buy things on Amazon.com that are not even sold on Amazon.com. The site holds even more riches.

In 1945, America dropped two atomic bombs on Japan killing as many as 220,000 people. But how did the US come to have such destructive weapons before anyone else?

In 1999, two workers created an unshielded nuclear reactor in Tokaimura Japan. A TV news crew chronicled the treatment and inevitable death of one of them.

Israel may be preparing to use its own weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East by using tactical nuclear weapons to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment capability.

Polished granite is a luxurious, durable construction material that adds considerable value to a home. But experts say it can also increase one's risk of lung cancer.

The development, test, and use of the first atomic bomb by the United States during World War II.

Electrons can emit or absorb only specific amounts of energy to change orbitals and this energy change usually takes place via photons of light.

How do radiation detectors work? And how does Homeland Security use them at the borders to prevent nuclear materials from being used in weapons of mass destruction?

Volcanism requires both a source of heat and something to melt. The planet provides the material for melting and the heat comes from a variety of sources.

In the final decades of the nineteenth and first few decades of the twentieth centuries, physicists would begin to unlock the mysteries of radioactivity.

Iran's defiance of the international community over its suspected nuclear weapons program is apparently worth continuing, at least in the eyes of the Iranian leadership.

Nuclear weapons forever changed the nature of war, and the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union dominated international relations during the Cold War.

Over 30 people in Ghana and Burkina Faso have been killed and thousands more are homeless because of floods caused by more than a week of the heaviest rains in decades.

Radon gas can be present in the soil on which the home foundation is built. Help prevent radon levels from getting too high with a radon abatement system.

Like a mold inspection, determining the risk exposure from radon gas is important. Using radon test equipment, relevant air quality testing can be achieved.

The eco-friendly absence of greenhouse gas emissions from nuclear power, a carbon free source of energy, is negated by other environmental aspects of nuclear energy.

The latent crisis of Democracy's collapse, Islamic fundamentalism & fiscal failure in an atomic Pakistan is ignored as America politicizes Iranian meeting preconditions.

The state of Iran's nuclear program remains in question, despite their continued rhetoric of transparency. The peaceful use of their nuclear program also remains suspect.