Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation hails major construction milestone at Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has announced the completion of the reactor containment building dome for Unit 4, the final unit of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant, located in the Al Dhafrah region of Abu Dhabi. The unit’s reactor coolant loop …
The state Legislature will vote Thursday on several clean energy bills, including one to provide $300 million a year to nuclear power plants that can prove they are struggling to compete with cheap natural gas. Other bills would subsidize solar and wind power. Subsidies would be paid by ratepayers. The nuclear subsidy bill alone would …
TOKYO (Reuters) – An influential Japanese energy panel on Tuesday left the door open to building nuclear plants to help meet long-term emissions targets, urging rapid technology improvements to allow industry to develop safer and more economic reactors. The advisory panel, whose recommendations will feed into a review of the country’s 2030 basic energy plan …
Lower stock prices after a market pullback can be misleading as investors may be tempted to pick up bargains, only to end up buying companies with more downside potential. Therefore, we need to differentiate between real value and value traps. Today we will identify Canadian stocks that are potential value traps. We screened the S&P/TSX …
Kansai Electric Power Co. has started work to load nuclear fuel into reactor 4 at its Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture. The operation, which started Sunday, to place 193 uranium fuel assemblies in the reactor is to be completed by Wednesday. Kansai Electric aims to restart the reactor sometime in mid-May. According to the …
The Narendra Modi government, which had set the ambitious 63,000 MW nuclear power capacity addition target by the year 2031-32, has cut it down to 22,480 MW, a Lok Sabha answer has revealed. “With the completion of the under construction and sanctioned projects, the total nuclear power installed capacity in the country will reach 22480 MW… by the year …
Turkey reported the construction start of its first nuclear power plant to the IAEA’s Power Reactor Information System (PRIS) this week. The first safety-related concrete was poured for unit 1 of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant on 3 April, following the granting of the construction licence by the regulatory body, the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority …
Second Drill Mobilized to the Project UEX Corporation (UEX:TSX) (“UEX” or the “Company”), through its 100%-owned subsidiary, CoEX Metals Corporation (“CoEX”) is pleased to announce the first tranche of assay results from the winter drilling program on the West Bear Cobalt-Nickel Prospect, located in the eastern Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan. The Company has completed …
KELOWNA, British Columbia, April 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FISSION URANIUM CORP. (“Fission” or “the Company”) (TSX:FCU) (OTCQX:FCUUF) (FRANKFURT:2FU) is pleased to announce that Mr. Rob Chang, one of the uranium market’s most recognized experts, has been appointed to the Board of Directors. Mr. Chang has 23 years of experience in the financial services industry. …
Uranium has been mired in a protracted slump since 2011 and despite claims by some pundits that a rally is looming, its price continues to fall, leaving it down by 12% over the last year. This has had a deleterious impact on uranium miners, with many — including the world’s largest publicly traded uranium miner Cameco Corp. (TSX:CCO)(NYSE:CCJ) shuttering …