Azarga Uranium Corp. has received notice that the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (the ASLB) has issued a memorandum and order pertaining to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the NRC) summary disposition motion to resolve the remaining two contentions from the ASLB’s April 30, 2015, partial initial decision for the company’s Dewey Burdock in-situ …
MOSCOW, October 20 – Rosatom has obtained the first license on construction of Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the first nuclear power plant in Turkey, Russia’s nuclear corporation reported Friday. “The limited construction permit allows to launch construction and assembly operations at all sites of the nuclear power plant, excluding the buildings and facilities that are …
AKIPRESS.COM – President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi discussed the issue of supplying Uzbek uranium to India at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Astana, The Economic Times reports. India is holding talks on the purchase of uranium for its nuclear power plant, the report said. “Uzbekistan, the seventh biggest …
Peninsula Energy, the Australian company bankrolling the Karoo uranium mining venture, has announced it is pulling out. Peninsula had been seeking through its South African partners Tasman Pacific Minerals, Beaufort West Minerals, Lukisa JV Company and Tasman Mmakau JV Company to launch three uranium mines between Beaufort West and Aberdeen: Rhyst Kuil and Kwaggas Fontein …
South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s support of a government panel to resume building two stalled nuclear reactors sent shares of engineering and construction companies surging. The recommendation released Friday on the $7.5 billion project came after a nine-member committee gathered public opinion over the past three months about the permanent suspension of the Shin Kori …
Vancouver, BC – Skyharbour Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: SYH) (OTCQB: SYHBF) (Frankfurt: SC1P) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce the Company’s option partner Azincourt Energy (TSX-V: AAZ) (“Azincourt”) has announced details for an upcoming exploration program at the East Preston Uranium Project located in the western Athabasca Basin near NexGen Energy Ltd.’s high-grade Arrow deposit hosted on its Rook-1 property and …
VANCOUVER, Oct. 18, 2017 /CNW/ – NexGen Energy Ltd. (“NexGen” or the “Company”) (TSX:NXE, NYSEMKT:NXE) is pleased to report radioactivity results for sixteen holes from South Arrow as part of our on-going summer drilling program on our 100% owned, Rook I property, in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan. South Arrow Aggressive step out drilling at the recently discovered South Arrow has intersected significant off-scale radioactivity in multiple …
If you’ve been following the news, you may think uranium is only used in nuclear bombs and nuclear power plants. But uranium has lots of other uses. Unfortunately, the Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown in Japan and North Korea’s (and Iran’s) continued push for nuclear weapons show the volatile and dangerous nature of this vital element. What’s …
The fate of two incomplete nuclear reactors ― Shin-Kori 5 and 6 ― will be decided this week. The decision, which will be announced Friday, is likely to profoundly affect the future of Korea’s nuclear energy. The review committee, which consists of 471 ordinary citizens, held the final discussion about whether to continue the construction of …