Nucleotidings

Addressing shareholders at the company's annual general meeting in Darwin yesterday, Peter Mansell said that, with a third of the world's total undeveloped uranium reserves, the potential to expand Australian uranium mining was real. World-nuclear-news.org

Gunter, who leads the reactor oversite project at the anti-nuclear group Beyond Nuclear, pressed nuclear regulators on Tuesday to "autopsy" the Oyster Creek Generating Station in Lacey after it shuts down later this year. App.com

       There are many sites around the world contaminated by radioactive materials. Some sites such as the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State were dedicated to nuclear weapons production and little regard was given to safely disposing of radioactive materials. Some sites such as the Nevada Test Site were used to test nuclear weapons before a treaty banned above ground and atmospheric tests.