Supreme Court to rule on largest uranium deposit in US by Staff Writers Washington (AFP) May 21, 2018 The Supreme Court said Monday it will examine the legality of a ban on exploiting the largest known deposit of uranium in the United States. The court was responding to calls by the Trump administration, and by the companies that own the land in Virginia, which are seeking to overturn a ban on mining the estimated 119 million pounds of radioactive material, valued at some six billion dollars. Virginia banned uranium mining in 1982, citing concerns about radioactive pollution in the state's waterways. The huge deposit had been discovered shortly before that, close to the borders with North Carolina. But the mining companies that own the land have waged a long legal battle to overturn the ban, arguing that this one deposit could fuel all the country's nuclear power stations. They argue that, according to the Atomic Energy Act, decisions concerning the exploitation of nuclear materials should be in the hands of federal regulators, and not states. The Trump administration, which has pledged to revitalize bankrupt mines, has backed the mining companies in the case.
Nuclear Waste Management Organization Signs Co-Operation Agreements With International Partners Toronto, Canada (SPX) May 18, 2018 Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has signed or renewed co-operation agreements with counterparts from five countries: Belgium, France, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The NWMO is committed to international knowledge sharing, and these agreements join accords already in place with nuclear waste organizations in Finland, South Korea and Japan. "As our work to identify a single, preferred site for a deep geological repository intensifies, now is the perfect time to r ... read more
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