KELOWNA, British Columbia, May 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FISSION URANIUM CORP. (“Fission” or “the Company”) (TSX:FCU) (OTCQX:FCUUF) (FRANKFURT:2FU) is pleased to announce assay results from all eight winter program holes drilled on the R1515W zone at its PLS property, in Canada\’s Athabasca Basin region. These include six holes with high-grade intervals, of particular note is …
Kansai Electric Power Co. restarted Wednesday the No. 4 reactor at the Oi nuclear plant in central Japan, joining three other nearby units already online and raising safety concerns as well as expectations for lower electricity prices. On the Sea of Japan coast in Fukui Prefecture, the operator rebooted the reactor for the first time …
The president yesterday transmitted to Congress for review a bilateral agreement for peaceful nuclear energy cooperation, known as a Section 123 Agreement, between the United States and United Kingdom. Following is a statement from Dan Lipman, vice president of suppliers, new reactors, and international programs at NEI. “We commend the Trump administration for submitting to …
The containment dome of unit 6 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China’s Jiangsu province was installed on 5 May, marking the reactor’s entry into the equipment installation phase of construction, China Nuclear Engineering and Construction Corporation (CNECC) announced today. CNECC is a subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC). Installation of the 148-tonne …
Hitachi Ltd’s Horizon Nuclear Power unit has received an assurance from the British government that it will guarantee loans for the construction of two reactors in Wales, the Mainichi newspaper reported on Wednesday. British Prime Minister Theresa May met Hitachi Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi last week in London and asked him to go ahead the project, …
In EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2018 (AEO2018) Reference case, U.S. nuclear power generating capacity is projected to decline from 99.3 gigawatts (GW) to 79.1 GW over the projection period of 2017–50. To address some of the uncertainty surrounding this projection, this article presents sensitivity cases under different assumptions for oil and natural gas availability, nuclear power unit …
Energy Fuels Inc. (NYSE American: UUUU; TSX: EFR) (“Energy Fuels” or the “Company”), a leading uranium producer in the U.S., is pleased to announce that it intends to resume vanadium recovery operations in 2018, and it expects to recover significant quantities of currently dissolved vanadium (as V2O5) from pond solutions at the Company’s White Mesa …
UEX Corporation (UEX:TSX) (“UEX” or the “Company”), through its 100%-owned subsidiary, CoEX Metals Corporation (“CoEX”) is pleased to announce the fourth tranche of assay results have been received for the final fifteen holes from the Phase 1 winter drilling program on the 100%-owned West Bear Cobalt-Nickel Prospect, located in the eastern Athabasca Basin of northern …
AZARGA URANIUM CORP. (TSX: AZZ, FRA: P8AA, OTCMKTS: PWURF) (“Azarga Uranium”) and URZ ENERGY CORP. (TSX-V: URZ, OTCQB: URZZF) (“URZ Energy”) are pleased to announce the execution of a definitive arrangement agreement (“Arrangement Agreement”) pursuant to which Azarga Uranium and URZ Energy will merge to form a new US-focused in-situ recovery (“ISR”) uranium development company …
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources Khalid Al-Falih, center, with Saudi and Korean engineers at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) in Seoul on Saturday. (SPA) Last year, KSA and South Korea entered into a joint venture to prepare engineering designs for the reactor with training programs in a range of …