Tag: enrichment

04 OCT

'Shortseller Enrichment Commission’? Musk mocks SEC over fraud probe

While things aren’t on the up-and-up for eccentric entrepreneur Elon Musk, ousted as Tesla chairman and sued by a US agency for fraud over scandalous tweets, he’s now put Twitter in overdrive with an act certain to invite trouble. Musk appears to have run afoul of the $ 20 million settlement he recently reached with […]

08 JUN

Iran’s move toward uranium enrichment is message to EU to stand up to US, but it might be too late

Iran’s move to get ready to enrich uranium is an attempt to send a message to Europe, encouraging it to resist US pressure to abandon the nuclear deal, experts told RT. But Germany, France and the UK might be ready to give up. On Monday, Iran announced it’s moving to “upgrade” its uranium enrichment facility […]

25 MAR

Want to demolish a uranium enrichment facility? Ask a pipe-crawling robot first

Enlarge / “RadPiper is a robot developed by the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute for the Department of Energy,” the university wrote. “The treaded robot moves within the pipes of uranium-enrichment facilities to determine areas where radiation levels may pose a hazard.” (credit: Carnegie Mellon University) A government facility in Piketon, Ohio produced enriched uranium […]