WISE Uranium Project: 1997 News Archive
(last updated 14 May 2002)
> for more recent news, see the 1998 News Archive
- December 24, 1997: U.S. DOE releases Draft PEIS on depleted
uranium waste management problem: Dispersion is the solution. [MORE]
- December 18, 1997: U.S. NRC reverses in part ASLB decision
on license denial for LES Claiborne Enrichment plant. [MORE]
- December 9, 1997: UF6 cylinder ruptures during burst test.
[MORE]
- December 8, 1997: Production of uranium and vanadium ores
has commenced at IUC's Sunday Mine Complex in Colorado. [MORE]
- December 8, 1997: Australian Minister of Environment gives
environmental clearance for the Olympic Dam expansion project.
[MORE]
- December 5, 1997: U.S. NRC issues safety evaluation report
for the Crownpoint uranium in-situ leaching project (New Mexico)
[MORE]
- December 2, 1997: Rössing (Namibia) drops plans for dam
construction and for increase of production. [MORE]
- November 24, 1997: Development of Dalmatovkoye (Russia)
uranium in-situ leaching project underway. [MORE]
- November 19, 1997: The Atlas uranium mill tailings near Moab
(Utah) will be tested again to determine whether contaminated
ground water is threatening endangered fish in the Colorado
River. [MORE]
- November 13, 1997: Review Panel recommends approval of Midwest and Cigar Lake mining projects
(Saskatchewan, Canada), subject to conditions, and releases
report on cumulative impacts.
- October 31, 1997: Urenco's Gronau (Germany) enrichment
facility received a license to increase its capacity from 1000
to 1800 t/year SWU. [MORE]
- October 28, 1997: Leaking containers with radioactive
residue from Cabot Corp., Pennsylvania, to be processed in Utah
uranium mill discovered in Toronto. [MORE]
- October 28, 1997: License Termination for Day Loma uranium
heap leach site, Wyoming, USA. [MORE]
- October 20, 1997: Australian Senate passes motion against
Jabiluka Uranium Mining Project. [MORE]
- October 8, 1997: Adoption of "No action" approach
leaves 3.8 million m3 of contaminated groundwater
uncleaned at Spook, Wyoming, UMTRA site. [MORE]
- October 8, 1997: Australian Government Approves Jabiluka
Uranium Mining Project. [MORE]
- October 6, 1997: Urenco's enrichment tails upgraded in
Russia. [MORE]
- October 3, 1997: License Termination for ARCO Bluewater
Uranium Mill and Tailings Site, New Mexico, USA. [MORE]
- October 2, 1997: Still no public participation with Wismut
cleanup in Germany. [MORE]
- September 30, 1997: Swedish Greens launch motion for
Global Justice - Indigenous Peoples and Uranium Mining
in Parliament. [MORE]
- August 22, 1997: AECB Issues the Approval for Construction
of the McArthur River Uranium Mine in Saskatchewan, Canada. [MORE]
- August 15, 1997: NRC Authorizes Utah Uranium Mill to Receive
and Process Material from Pennsylvania. [MORE]
- August 15, 1997: Uranium Resources, Inc. receives state
permit for Vasquez in situ uranium mining project in Texas. [MORE]
- August 14, 1997: Midnite Mine and Ford Uranium Mill and
Tailings Reclamation (Washington): Meetings Set on Road and
Safety Study of Transporting Uranium Tailings for Aug. 20 and
25, 1997. [MORE]
- August 12, 1997: U.S. NRC provides comments to the Fish and
Wildlife Service on its Draft Biological Opinion Re: Impacts
from the Proposed Reclamation of the Atlas Mill Tailings Site in
Moab, Utah. [MORE]
- August 4, 1997: U.S. Dept. of Labor issues Correction of
Occupational Exposure Limit for Uranium in Air. [MORE]
- July 29, 1997: License Violations at Power Resources, Inc.
Highland Uranium Project, Wyoming, USA. [MORE]
- July 25, 1997: Breakthrough! Former Rössing Uranium
engineer and cancer victim, Edward Connelly, finally won his
long legal battle to have the right to bring his compensation
case in the British courts. [MORE]
- July 24, 1997: U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirms:
Navajo Tribal Court can hear claims against former Kerr-McGee
uranium mill. [MORE]
- July 23, 1997: The Ecologically Sustainable Development
Committee of Western Australia's Legislative Council is to
examine uranium mining proposals in the state, and provide
opportunity for public comment on them in September. [MORE]
- July 21, 1997: Radiological Criteria for License
Termination: U.S.NRC Final Rule excludes uranium mills and in-
situ leaching mines; New Rule to be developed for mills and ISL
mines; comments are to be submitted by October 6, 1997 [MORE]
- July 21, 1997: Friends of the Earth Sydney submits Critique of Supplementary EIS for the
Jabiluka Uranium Project.
- July 10, 1997: The Western Mining Corporation has admitted
leaving the contaminated trial uranium mine of Yeelirree exposed
to the public, with inadequate fencing and warning signs, for
more than 10 years. [MORE]
- July 5, 1997: Friends of the Earth Sydney issues Submission on Olympic Dam Expansion Draft
EIS (34k)
- July 4, 1997: Gore, Oklahoma: Uranium processing plant
sprays radioactive waste as fertilizer [MORE]
- June 27, 1997: Relaxed groundwater standards at various US
decommissioning sites [MORE]
- June 9, 1997: Proposed Amendment to Wyoming Rules on In Situ
Leaching. [MORE]
This service had not been provided prior to June 1997.