uranium
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Florida Moves A Step Closer To Building Radioactive Roads
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is hoping the Sunshine State will glow a little brighter after signing a bill to allow radioactive materials to be used in road construction last week.
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A Tiny Town Was the Soviet Union’s Uranium Hub. Now, It’s Racing to Avoid Disaster
Anna Travkina remembers the day the water turned black. She was six years old in 1958, when heavy rainfall and seismic activity pushed up to 14 million cubic feet of radioactive uranium waste into the river that flowed past her home in southern Kyrgyzstan. Travkina had been playing with her friends along the riverbank, but…
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Report: Trace Amounts Of Uranium Found By Inspectors At Iranian Site
Diplomats who have closely observed the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) work in Iran said that investigators discovered traces of uranium at a Tehran-based storage facility, Reuters reported on Monday, and that Iran has yet to issue any explanation why.
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Japanese Teen Suspected Of Making Yellowcake Uranium Maybe Just Really Into Chemistry, Police Say
Tokyo law enforcement suspect a 16-year-old boy traded online uranium and processed it into uranium ore, also known as yellowcake. But rather than trying to facilitate the creation of nuclear weapons, he may have just been really into chemistry.