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...also said the bone marrow drive was a worthy effort. "Even if it's not going to help him, it will help other people in the future and we all need this," he said.ReutersMAKING A POINTAn anti-uranium mining protester wearing a gas mask stands atop a banner covering a pile of barrels outside the Australian Prime Minister's Sydney office...
...Rock: The nation's oldest commercial nuclear plant will close Friday, when operators at Michigan's Big Rock reactor lower the damper rods for the last time. Now comes the hard part: A five-year project to safely dismantle the reactor and dispose of some 442 bundles of spent uranium fuel at the site...
...Bill Clinton's cash-crazed drive for re-election, the President opened the White House to all sorts of schemers. But few pitches got more consideration than Mark Grobmyer's curious plan to buy enriched uranium from Russia and the U.S., lease it to utilities worldwide, collect the spent radioactive rods and store them on a tiny volcanic island in steel casks made in, of course, Arkansas...
...youngest Homo erectus remains ever found. For more than a generation, those estimates stood. Two years ago, however, a team headed by Swisher decided to find out just how old the fossils really were, using instruments that determine age by measuring radioactive decay in fossils that have absorbed uranium from the surrounding soil...
...Britain; Ato Boldon of Trinidad by way of UCLA; Canada's two heirs to Ben Johnson, world champion Donovan Bailey and Bruny Surin; and Frankie Fredericks of Namibia and Brigham Young University. Fredericks, who is coached by Hirschi and is employed on the business side of a Namibian uranium mine, has been positively radioactive of late, running the second- and third-fastest 100s in history and then ending Michael Johnson's 21-race winning streak in the 200. There are also the three sprinters who will be trying to keep the U.S. from losing its first Olympic...