Tag: uranium

• Wednesday, May 27th 2026 - 18:00 UTC

  Trump rejects Russia or China custody of Iranian enriched uranium in peace negotiations

  

  US President Donald Trump on Wednesday ruled out that Russia or China could take control of Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium as part of a possible agreement to end the war. “No, I would not be comfortable with that,” the president replied tersely to journalists who asked about the possibility of Moscow or Beijing taking custody of the radioactive material with which Tehran could potentially build a nuclear weapon. The statement introduces a new complication into the negotiations both parties are conducting in Doha under Qatari mediation.

• Wednesday, May 20th 2026 - 23:49 UTC

  Brazilian Public Prosecutor's Office asks not to renew license of country's sole uranium mine

  

  Brazil's Federal Public Prosecutor's Office on Wednesday recommended that the Brazilian Institute of Environment (Ibama) not renew the environmental license of the country's only uranium mine, in operation since 1999, until the responsible company duly consults the quilombola communities potentially affected by the activity. The recommendation does not amount to a definitive closure of operations, but it does entail a suspension conditional on compliance with the requirement of prior consultation of the populations affected by the project, in line with the national and international norms in force.

• Wednesday, November 18th 2020 - 09:13 UTC

  Trump considered attacking Iran's main nuclear site, but finally desisted on counsel from advisors

  

  President Donald Trump asked senior advisers last Thursday about potential options for attacking Iran's main nuclear site, US media report. The advisers warned him that military action could spark a broader conflict, officials were cited as saying.

• Monday, December 2nd 2019 - 09:35 UTC

  Peru says the country is ready to responsibly begin mining uranium

  

  A representative from the Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines said this weekend that the country is ready to start mining uranium in the southern Puno region. During a workshop on uranium mining targeted at public service personnel, Martha Vásquez, head of the Mining Management Division at the ministry, said that the country is well-equipped to responsibly exploit the radioactive mineral.

• Thursday, June 26th 2014 - 05:00 UTC

  Argentina to restart production of enriched uranium in Patagonia plant

  

  Argentina's government said Wednesday that in five weeks it will restart operations at an enriched uranium plant as part of a peaceful pursuit of nuclear energy.

• Thursday, March 10th 2011 - 06:34 UTC

  China scrambles to secure long-term uranium supplies for 84 nuclear plants

  

  China’s scramble to secure long-term uranium supplies to support the rapid expansion of its nuclear power industry has led the state-owned CGNPC Uranium to make a 1.23 billion US dollars takeover bid for London-listed Kalahari Minerals.

• Tuesday, May 25th 2010 - 06:22 UTC

  Brazil closer to control the whole industrial cycle of uranium processing

  

  Brazil will be ready to control the whole industrial cycle of uranium processing, from extraction of the radioactive mineral to its final conversion into fuel, in large volumes, by the end of the year, according to military sources.