Posts Tagged ‘uranium’

U.S. seeks to reduce its heavy reliance on Russian uranium for nuclear power

U.S. seeks to reduce its heavy reliance on Russian uranium for nuclear power When the House of Representatives recently passed a ban on the import of Russian uranium in an attempt to further discourage Russia from its activities in Ukraine, it led many to wonder just how much the country depends on Russia for its […]

How Much Does The US Depend On Russian Uranium?

The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a ban on imports of Russian uranium. The bill must pass the Senate before becoming law. In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti visualizes how much the U.S. relies on Russian uranium, based on data from the United States Energy Information Administration (EIA). U.S. Suppliers of Enriched Uranium After Russia […]

Iran bars nuclear inspectors while stockpiling enriched uranium

Iran’s nuclear activities once again stirred international concern as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports that the country continues to bar several experienced nuclear inspectors. In a confidential report, IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi criticized Iran’s decision to withdraw accreditation from eight top inspectors, including French and German nationals. He deemed the move “extreme and […]

Fallout from ammo depot explosion in Ukraine that destroyed DEPLETED URANIUM shells reaches the United Kingdom

Fallout from ammo depot explosion in Ukraine that destroyed DEPLETED URANIUM shells reaches the United Kingdom Fallout from the explosion of an ammunition depot in Ukraine– which had depleted uranium (DU) shells in storage – has reached the United Kingdom. Ironically, Downing Street gave these same DU shells to Kyiv. According to a recent study, […]

WSJ: Netanyahu Floating Saudi Uranium Enrichment for Possible Normalization Deal

 September 21, 2023 The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “instructed Israeli officials to cooperate” with the US toward allowing Saudi Arabia to enrich uranium. According to the WSJ report, a central part of the deal was also being seriously considered by Netanyahu, despite Israeli opposition leaders being against […]

Israeli opposition rejects idea of KSA enriching own uranium

Today Sep 22, 2023 Source: Agencies By Al Mayadeen English The negotiations for a potential normalization deal involve the US providing Riyadh with security assurances and support for a Saudi domestic civilian nuclear program. Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has strongly criticized the idea of permitting Saudi Arabia to engage in uranium enrichment within its borders, citing potential […]

Iraq War: How the U.S. Contaminated Iraq with Depleted Uranium

September 20, 2023 Global Research By Prof Souad N. Al-Azzawi 8 November 2009 The following text was presented to the Kuala Lumpur International Conference to Criminalise War, Putra World Trade Centre, 28-31 October 2009. For more than three decades [since 1991], the United States of America and the United Kingdom have been waging continuous wars on Iraq to […]

What are depleted Uranium munitions? 

As a part of a $1 billion aid package, the United States announced that it is sending depleted anti-tank munitions to Ukraine to help Zelensky’s troops fend off Russian tanks.  The armor-piercing rounds first developed during the Cold War by the U.S. will be fired from 31 M1A1 Abrams tanks that are planned to be… […]

Iran Has Slowed Its Enrichment Of Near-weapons-grade Uranium: UN Nuclear Watchdog Report

The confidential report comes as Iran and the U.S. are negotiating a prisoner swap and the release of billions of dollars in Iranian assets frozen in South Korea. Source

Niger puts an end to uranium and gold export to France

31 Jul 2023 Source: Agencies By Al Mayadeen English Niger coup leader General Abdourahamane Tchiani, despite being EU’s largest supplier of uranium, halts uranium and gold export to France. With immediate effect, the Republic of Niger under the leadership of General Abdourahamane Tchiani, and supported by the people of the Republic, announced the suspension of […]

Russia whines about Ukraine receiving Depleted Uranium ammo while Russia has been using that since the Beginning

Putin criticised the UK’s donation of 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, specifically taking issue with the potential deployment of depleted uranium tank rounds, claiming that it was a dangerous escalation towards nuclear war. Russian President Vladimir Putin got his knickers in a bit of a twist recently when commenting on the potential deployment of […]

UK’s Depleted Uranium Plan Threatens All Of Europe

READ HERE: The British decision to supply depleted uranium munitions to Kiev is part of a dangerous trend that makes the Ukraine conflict a threat to the whole of Europe, Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin has warned.   Source

Stink of Nuclear War: UK will Supply Ukraine Depleted Uranium Ammunition. Moscow: “As Dirty Bombs”

March 22, 2023 by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio The race to escalate the war in Ukraine carried on by the NATO countries continues with constant provocations that seem made on purpose to unleash the First World Atomic War. While the White House has already warned Kiev not to accept peace proposals from China after the meeting between […]

Russia’s Putin blasts UK move to send ammo with depleted uranium to Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday condemned British plans to send tank ammunition that contains depleted uranium to Ukraine, saying Moscow would be forced to respond accordingly. Source

Wagner Mercenaries Back Libyan Group That Says It Recovered Missing Uranium

A Libyan general with ties to Russia’s Wagner mercenary group claims to have recovered 2.5 tonnes of missing uranium.  Khaled Mahjoub, a media officer for the Libyan National Army (LNA), announced on his Facebook page that several drums of uranium had been found near the country’s border with Chad. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) […]

Y-12 uranium processing facility in Tennessee catches fire, 200 employees evacuated

(NaturalNews) (Natural News) A fire broke out Wednesday, Feb 22, at the Y-12 National Security Complex uranium processing facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. All 200 employees were immediately evacuated from the site.According to Steven Wyatt, a spokesperson from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the blaze that started at 9:15 a.m. … [Read More…] Source

Ohio Cover Up Continues, US Sends Ukraine Depleted Uranium Rounds & ISIS Patch On Ukraine Solider

Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (2/15/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth […]

‘Iran has enough enriched uranium to make 4 nuclear bombs,’ Israeli army says

Iran currently has enough enriched uranium to make four nuclear bombs, Israel's outgoing military chief informed reporters on Friday. "Iran today has enough enriched material to produce four nuclear bombs, three at 20 per cent and one at 60 per cent," Israeli public broadcaster Kan reported outgoing Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi telling reporters. Kochavi […]

Iran has enough uranium near weapons-grade for a bomb, IAEA report shows

Iran’s stock of uranium enriched to up to 60 per cent, close to weapons-grade, has grown to enough, if enriched further, for a nuclear bomb, a report by the United Nations nuclear watchdog showed on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Passing that threshold is a milestone in the unravelling of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and […]

US Dependence on Russian Uranium and Sanctions Policies

The energy crisis, exacerbated in recent months by Washington’s anti-Russian sanctions policy, is perhaps the worst such crisis since 1973, when Arab countries imposed an oil embargo to protest Western support for Israel in the Yom Kippur War. It has affected all Western states by now. While the search for new energy sources and improvements […]

US Dependence on Russian Uranium and Sanctions Policies

The energy crisis, exacerbated in recent months by Washington’s anti-Russian sanctions policy, is perhaps the worst such crisis since 1973, when Arab countries imposed an oil embargo to protest Western support for Israel in the Yom Kippur War. It has affected all Western states by now. While the search for new energy sources and improvements […]

Small-Town Residents Get Creative In Black Hills Uranium Mine Fight

Hot Springs, South Dakota – A budding national reputation for healing mineral waters spawned this town of 3,400 in the early 1900s. Appreciative of that source, today’s area residents have fended off proposed radioactive uranium mining in the aquifers for more than four decades. This summer of 2022, they scored a breakthrough. They collected enough […]

Iranian Regime Steps Up Underground Uranium Enrichment, IAEA Report Says

VIENNA—The Iranian regime is pressing ahead with its rollout of an upgrade to its advanced uranium enrichment programme, a report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog seen by Reuters on Monday showed, even as the West awaits Tehran’s response on salvaging its 2015 nuclear deal. The first of three cascades, or clusters, of advanced IR-6 centrifuges […]

How American Jews And The Mossad Conspired To Steal U.S. Uranium For Israel’s Secret Nuclear Weapons Program

Years before John F. Kennedy had his final showdown with David Ben-Gurion over Israel’s development of nuclear weapons, the Mossad — with the help of American Jews loyal to the fledgling Zionist state — orchestrated one of the greatest criminal heists in history — the theft of over 600 pounds of weapons-grade uranium with the […]

It’s ‘open lie’ that Iran enriching uranium to 90%: nuclear chief

It’s ‘open lie’ that Iran enriching uranium to 90%: nuclear chief – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN – Mohammad Eslami, chief of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), on Tuesday dismissed rumors that Iran is enriching uranium to 90 percent purity, calling it an “open lie”. “This is an open lie… that are attributed to our country […]

Iran ‘enriching uranium at 20% purity,’ says nuclear watchdog

Iran has started to enrich uranium up to 20 per cent purity at Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday. The equipment being used is far more efficient than the first-generation of machines, noted the agency. According to the UN nuclear watchdog, Tehran has 94 IR-6 machines installed in […]

Iran has increased its stockpile of enriched uranium significantly, says IAEA 

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday that Iran has in recent months increased its stockpile of highly enriched uranium significantly. This, the agency pointed out, is a violation of its commitments under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear agreement with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus […]

Production of advanced uranium fuel is for peaceful purposes: Iran

Production of advanced uranium fuel is for peaceful purposes: Iran – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has reacted to a statement by the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany about Iran’s decision to produce silicide fuel using 20-percent enriched uranium, saying the fuel was produced for peaceful purposes. Khatibzadeh noted […]

IAEA: Iran’s enriched uranium is up to 63%

TEHRAN—The United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced on Tuesday that the uranium samples they have received from the Natanz nuclear site was enriched to up to 63%. According to Reuters, which has obtained the IAEA report, “The agency’s analysis of the ES (environmental samples) taken on 22 April 2021 shows an enrichment level […]

Iran now enriching uranium to 63% purity — UN watchdog

Iran has enriched uranium to 63-percent purity, higher than the 60% it has announced, which is already way beyond the 3.67% allowed under the 2015 nuclear deal, a report said Tuesday, citing a document by the International Atomic Energy Agency. “According to Iran, fluctuations of the enrichment levels… were experienced,” the UN nuclear watchdog said […]

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