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Nuclear is much cleaner and has less environmental impacts over the life cycle of the production than other energy sources for the Finnish and European district heating markets, a study by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has concluded.

Date: Saturday, 13 July 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Study-highlights-benefits-of-nuclear-district-heat

Uranium production from Olympic Dam could increase in future as BHP considers expanding copper production at the mine in South Australia. Meanwhile, Energy Resources of Australia said it will need to raise more funds in 2024 to cover expenditure on the rehabilitation of the former Ranger uranium mine.

Date: Thursday, 29 February 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Australian-miners-provide-updates-on-past-and-futu

Netherlands-based nuclear energy development and consultancy company ULC-Energy has undertaken a study that investigated the potential to use civil nuclear technologies to power commercial maritime vessels. The study was commissioned by mining company and shipping charterer BHP, a major producer of commodities including iron ore, copper, nickel, and metallurgical coal. BHP has approximately 80,000 employees and contractors, primarily in Australia and the Americas. 

Date: Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbhp-to-consider-nuclear-powered-cargo-ships-11551624

Dutch nuclear energy development and consultancy company ULC-Energy BV has completed a study - commissioned by global mining company BHP - to investigate the potential use of civil nuclear technologies to power commercial maritime vessels.

Date: Saturday, 24 February 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/BHP-considers-nuclear-powered-cargo-ships

The first in-situ leach field test programme carried out by Denison on Tthe Heldeth Túé uranium deposit at Waterbury Lake achieved its planned objectives and has confirmed expectations that the deposit can be amenable to mining using in-situ techniques.

Date: Wednesday, 08 November 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Inaugural-study-completed-for-potential-Canadian-I

Rosatom specialists have completed work to rehabilitate legacy uranium tailing sites as part of a project to rehabilitate the Taboshar industrial site near the city of Istiklol in the Sughd region of Tajikistan. Russia has fully implemented measures to reclaim the dump of the low-grade uranium ore factory and four tailings dumps almost five months ahead of schedule.

Date: Saturday, 07 October 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrehabilitation-of-uranium-tailing-site-completed-ahead-of-schedule-11199444

Rosatom says that it has completed the work to reclaim the low-grade uranium ore factory and tailings dumps at Taboshar, near the city of Istiklol in the Sughd region of Tajikistan. The company also said Russia and Tajikistan are considering wider cooperation in the nuclear sector.

Date: Thursday, 05 October 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Clean-up-of-Tajik-uranium-legacy-site-completed-ah

Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB) says it has completed the first stage of demolition of buildings at the Unit for Decommissioning of Caldas (UDC) in southern Minas Gerais, which is currently undertaking clean-up of a former uranium mine. Altogether 12 buildings were demolished at the industrial plant comprising 1,900 square metres of disused structures. The cooling tower was the last structure demolished in early September. According to INB, the area where the buildings were located will be restructured using local soil.

Date: Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsinb-completes-first-stage-of-decommissioning-in-caldas-11174058

Remediation works at Mailuu-Suu - the largest uranium legacy site in Kyrgyzstan - are set to begin following the allocation of a grant of EUR23 million (USD25 million) from the Environmental Remediation Account for Central Asia (ERA), managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

Date: Saturday, 20 May 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Remediation-of-Kyrgyz-uranium-legacy-site-to-start

Denison Mines Corp plans to carry out additional evaluation work following the completion of a conceptual study of the potential application of in-situ leach (ISL) mining methods at the Midwest project in Saskatchewan.

Date: Saturday, 15 April 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/ISL-mooted-for-second-Canadian-uranium-project