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The stockholder meeting agenda is: 1. To elect three directors to Nanophase's Board of Directors; 2. To ratify the appointment by the Company's Audit and Finance Committee of McGladrey & Pullen, LLP as the independent auditors of the Company's financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2009; and 3. To transact such other business as may ...

On the heels of recent quotes from Rio Tinto and Cameco on the impending shortage of uranium supply in future years, Areva announced today that it aims to double its uranium production within three years.

PIKETON - USEC Inc. has named Rob Jacobs as maintenance manager, American Centrifuge Plant Operations.

A company's plans to build a uranium enrichment plant in Piketon are in jeopardy without a $2 billion federal loan guarantee, The Columbus Dispatch reported Sunday.

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Based on the aggregated intelligence of 135,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS , the Fool's free investing community, enriched-uranium provider USEC has earned a coveted five-star ranking .

The growing push in the United States for an energy policy that lowers the country's dependence on oil always seems to bring nuclear energy into the discussion.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A company's plans to build a uranium enrichment plant in southern Ohio are in jeopardy without a $2 billion federal loan guarantee.

The inclusion of traditional competitors Areva and USEC Inc. in the Southern Ohio Clean Energy Park Alliance will not have any impact on the ongoing American Centrifuge project or the two companies' competitive standing.

Thirty years after the nation's worst nuclear accident, the partial reactor core meltdown at Three Mile Island, nuclear power is being reinvented as clean, green and safe - a talisman against global warming.

An estimated 4,000 construction jobs will be created over the next decade as a new nuclear power plant is erected on Department of Energy land in Piketon.

Ohio's third nuclear power plant likely won't start operating for years, but state officials and energy industry executives are saying it is time to start considering its construction and Piketon is the place for it.

The American Centrifuge technology, above, at the Piketon uranium enrichment facility, will be joined by another large-scale project, according to USEC officials.

A large forest fire is burning in northern Saskatchewan about six kilometres away from a major uranium milling site.

A coalition of energy companies will announce plans Thursday to build a new nuclear power plant on the site of the Department of Energy's Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, and negotiations for a second plant are underway, according to a source close to the negotiations.

Centerra Gold Inc. says its operating licence for the Boroo mine in Mongolia has been suspended for up to three months after a report from a government inspection agency that visited the mine site.

Keystone Findings Inc. , a manufacturer of ring settings, wedding bands and other jewelry-related items, has been bought by Hoover & Strong Inc.

Centerra Gold Inc. , the gold producer controlled by Cameco Corp. , said the Mongolian government temporarily suspended operating permits for the companya s Boroo mine and may revoke them after a review.

Centerra Gold Inc. announced today the closing of all transactions under the Agreement on New Terms between Centerra, the government of the Kyrgyz Republic and Cameco Corporation, the details of which were disclosed by the Company on April 24, 2009.