Fewer nuclear reactors are being built worldwide but more and more nuclear power plants run for longer periods than originally planned. It is therefore high time that those term extensions become a European issue, Claus Mayr of the German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union told EURACTIV Germany in an interview. Claus Mayr is European Policy Director at …
(Reuters) – Shares of uranium producers surged in early trading on Monday after Kazakhstan’s uranium output cut spurred expectations the move would help clear a glut that has roiled the global markets since the Fukushima meltdown in 2011. U.S.-listed shares of Canadian uranium miner Cameco Corp rose nearly 18 percent to a high of $11.17, …
The reactor vessel for unit 2 of the Leningrad Phase II nuclear power plant was installed yesterday, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has announced. The installation work at the plant, which is in Sosnovy Bor in western Russia, used ‘open top’ technology, which “allows equipment to be inserted into the sealed area directly through the …
With a ceremony held today, Bangladesh started the construction of its first nuclear power plant at Rooppur. The pouring of the first nuclear safety-related concrete for the power plant made Bangladesh the third ‘newcomer’ country to start constructing its first nuclear power reactor in three decades – following the United Arab Emirates in 2012 and …
Further to GoviEx Uranium Inc.’s news release on Nov. 21, 2017, it has filed the “NI 43-101 Technical Report on a Preliminary Economic Assessment of the Mutanga Uranium Project in Zambia”, dated Nov. 30, 2017. The PEA was prepared by qualified persons from SRK Consulting (UK) Ltd. and is available under the company’s profile on …