Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide (13 m). Credit: Space.com | animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve ...

In a mask and a hazmat suit, Ermek Murataliyev drives a truck filled with Soviet-era radioactive waste along the winding ...

Uranium (chemical symbol U) is a naturally occurring radioactive element. In its pure form it is a silver-coloured heavy metal, similar to lead, cadmium and tungsten. Like tungsten it is very dense, ...

Depleted uranium is naturally-occurring uranium which has been stripped of much - but not all - of its radioactive matter. It is a by-product from the process which prepares uranium for use in ...

The Sprott Uranium Miners ETF (NYSEARCA: URNM) provides investors with a more concentrated exposure to the uranium mining sector. It tracks the North Shore Global Uranium Mining Index, a ...

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A Canadian company expected to “produce significant quantities of uranium” in Emery County in 2025. Here's why that won't ...

Uranium is a heavy, silvery-white metallic element with the atomic number 92, known for its radioactive properties. It occurs naturally in various minerals and is primarily used as fuel for ...

Quite literally, at the core of all this nuclear expansion is uranium, a radioactive element that is mined and then enriched into the U-235 isotope used by most of the 440 or so commercial nuclear ...

Uranium is a naturally occurring nonrenewable ... fossil fuels when compared to an average of 4,000 total deaths due to radiation poisoning. As sentiment surrounding nuclear energy begins to ...

For a pure play on uranium, the biggest producers of the radioactive material by country are outside the U.S. and consequently, some of the largest mining companies are likely to be based abroad.