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Yet, as the rescue efforts drag on, journalists at the scene of the Shanxi mine have reported difficulty speaking with family members or obtaining up-to-date numbers of the total number of fatalities. Twelve miners have been confirmed dead, and another 26 are missing, the state-run Xinhua news...
Chinese authorities have struggled for years to control mine disasters. Inspectors have forced the closure of small, illegal mines, but that has put more pressure on larger, more reputable operators, like the state-owned China National Coal Group, which co-owns the Wangjialing mine. And while the annual death totals...
Despite the U.S. industry's good record, last week's disaster in West Virginia served as a wake-up call that it's not just Chinese operations that may be putting the bottom line before the worker safety. The number of government citations and orders issued for the Upper Big...
After Lopez-Lizana reported that the uranium was accounted for, the NNSA team had to shift it through a crisis zone to a port on high alert for tsunamis. And their cargo was unstable. HEU must be stored and shipped in certain geometrical configurations - long, flat sheets, for instance - so...
For the following four days, Bieniawski and his team plus a U.S. shipping contractor met with Chilean officials to plan an escape route. The meetings had an odd quality - aftershocks twice spilled coffee from cups. The original plan was to ship the HEU to the U.S. from the Chilean port...