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AIPG-TX Section Webinar: GeoPolitics of Energy: Part 2: What Happened to Our Nuclear Waste Disposal Program?

OUR NOVEMBER SPEAKER: Dr. James Conca is a Trustee of the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at WSU in the Tri-Cities. He has worked on nuclear and energy issues for 40 years at NASA, Washington State University, New Mexico State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Conca has been an advisor to DOE, EPA, state and federal regulatory agencies, and to President Obama’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future from 2010 to 2012. He worked on the Yucca Mt and WIPP nuclear waste projects for 25 years, was a Science Contributor to Forbes [...]

By Editor|2025-08-03T20:39:30-05:00December 14th, 2024|AIPG-TX News|

AIPG Texas Chapter Vice President Gave Interview on National Radio Discussing Uranium and Nuclear Power

The weekend of Saturday and Sunday, September 3th and 4th, at both 11 am (EDT) and 8 pm (EDT) on THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY radio program on America Out Loud Talk Radio, Michael D. Campbell was interviewed by Dr. Jay H. Lehr, who was one of Mr. Campbell’s geology professors at Ohio State in the 1960s. They discussed the future of nuclear power in the U.S. and around the world. For details, see the introductory article on nuclear power, the Radio Interview link, and the supporting references discussed during the interview (here). The podcast version of the [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T10:59:34-05:00September 4th, 2022|AIPG-TX News|

I2M Web Portal Passes Milestone of 8,500 Resources

Thanks to all the hard work by the I2M Web Portal Editors and contributors from around the world, the I2M Web Portal just passed 8,500 resources. These resources are available for searching and consist of historical reports, papers, and technical news items. The portal emphasis (as of 2017) is on uranium, nuclear minerals, and nuclear power followed by climate change, off-worlds activities, and numerous other subjects of interest to the I2M management and associates. The portal supports the Energy Minerals Division's Committee on Uranium, Nuclear Minerals and Rare Earths and I2M projects worldwide. To all geoscientists and interested parties, feel free [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T17:23:00-05:00July 12th, 2019|AIPG-TX News|

Texas AIPG Team Produces Series of Publications over Past Two Years

Michael D. Campbell (AIPG-TX VP-Eastern Texas), Henry M. Wise (AIPG-TX President), Roger W. Lee (AIPG-TX Councilor-at-Large), Glen Collier (AIPG-TX Councilor-at-Large), M. David Campbell (AIPG-TX Webmaster), and others have produced a number of papers over the past two years. Some are chapters/sections in papers and some are stand-alone papers for the Energy Minerals Division (AAPG), while others are papers based on earlier I2M-precursor projects involving: brine contamination of rural groundwater in Ohio; uranium, thorium, and REE in Alaska; siderite in Oklahoma-Arkansas; editorials to encourage professional geologists to publish in the new open-access journals involving: media and academic bias against uranium [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T18:09:04-05:00January 14th, 2019|AIPG-TX News|

An Update: Nuclear Power & Uranium Markets, Ownership & Uranium One

This is a brief update produced by Henry Wise (President-AIPG Texas Section) and Michael D. Campbell (VP-Eastern Texas-AIPG-Texas Section) since the 2017 Annual Report from the Chair, Uranium (Nuclear and Rare Earth) Committee of the Energy Mineral Division (AAPG) was released April 1, 2017. Some 99 nuclear power plants in the U.S. remain in operation, a few are scheduled for retirement, two new reactors are being built in Georgia. Japan is slowly upgrading and re-starting its fleet of nuclear power plants after Fukushima. China is rapidly building some 25 new plants and hundreds more are planned, along with financially underwriting the [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T18:48:32-05:00November 27th, 2017|AIPG-TX News|