Uranium Exploration Near Grand Canyon
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With minimal public notice and no formal environmental review, the Forest Service is allowing a British firm to explore for uranium near Grand Canyon National Park.
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Before they get to the Grand Canyon's glass-bottom Skywalk, most visitors are treated to an unexpected thrill &#151; 14 miles of dusty, axle-busting road that twists around Joshua trees on the Hualapai Indian reservation.
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A daring trip to study the solar wind will end on Wednesday with the midair retrieval of extraterrestrial samples above the Utah desert.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 19 -- A contract employee at a nuclear materials cleanup site in Tennessee pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he stole classified information about enriching uranium to sell to foreign governments.
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An oil companyâs plan to begin exploratory drilling near the remote site of Robert Smithsonâs âSpiral Jettyâ along the Great Salt Lake in Utah has stirred an impassioned response from artists and others who fear that the project could endanger that massive artwork. The jetty, a 1,500-foot-long curlicue of salt crystals, rocks and mud jutting into the lake, was completed by Smithson in 1970, three years before he died in a plane crash. The State of Utah, which must approve any plan for drilling in the area, decided recently to extend a period for public comment on the proposal until Feb. 13. John Harja, who runs the stateâs public land policy coordinating office, said on Tuesday that the office had received 900 letters, e-mail messages and calls about the issue in the last several days. Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, issued a statement calling the jetty âa significant cultural siteâ and saying that the trust was âdeeply concerned about the potential harm that energy development could bringâ to it.
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The world's longest continually running experiment has revealed traces of plutonium in British soil from nuclear tests in the Nevada desert 50 years ago, scientists said on Monday.
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A renaissance in nuclear power production pushes up prices of uranium and spurs development of nuke facilities. There's little resistance from environmentalists, despite no real solution for the industry's waste products.
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By Brian J. Pedersen, Arizona Daily Star
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GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK - Scientists flooded the Grand Canyon yesterday to restore beaches and save fish and plants that have been disappearing since sediment-free water began flowing from a dam 40 years ago.
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Canadian miner Uranium One said it had approved Australia's fourth uranium mine, the Honeymoon project in the South Australian outback.
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CHATHAM, Va. -- Underneath a plot of farmland used to raise cattle, hay and timber in south central Virginia lies what is thought to be the largest deposit of uranium in the United States.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. A team of 20 scientists is joining the search for a missing H-bomb off the coast of Georgia. The government believes a report of some unusual radiation readings might be coming from a hydrogen bomb that was lost near Tybee Island in 1958.
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By Hinkel, Nate  ALTHOUGH THE FAYETTEVILLE Shale Play is providing an economic shot in the arm for north-central Arkansas, the environmental impact of drilling for gas remains largely unknown.
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The Bureau of Land Management is asking Utahns interested in managing and conserving federal land to try out for a place on an advisory resource council.
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On one side of Mars, NASA&#39;s Spirit rover has found a mineral that solidly points to water activity. Meanwhile, the Opportunity rover has found confirmation
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PROVO -- Forest Service crews have started thinning dense vegetation along the Alpine Loop on U-92 in American Fork Canyon. The thinning operation is expected to take about two weeks and could cause minor travel delays.
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By Nancy Perkins Deseret Morning News  GRAND CANYON WEST, Ariz. -- A steel-and-glass skywalk under construction by the Hualapai Tribe of Arizona on the western rim of the Grand Canyon is aimed at blending ancient beliefs with today's technology.