If you like to dabble in commodity markets, here’s a treat for you. It’s a great chart from Macquarie Bank that shows where individual commodities sit in their price cycle – at least based on Macquarie’s opinion – providing investors a guide as to what commodities are likely to be hot, and not, over the …
Country’s sovereign wealth fund owns US$70b in assets. Three firms are Air Astana, uranium producer Kazatomprom, and Kazakhtelecom Samruk-Kazyna, Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund, is planning initial public offerings (IPOs) for three of its major assets this year, and Hong Kong is being viewed as a strong choice as the potential venue. Nurlan Rakhmetov, its managing …
There are around 440 operational nuclear power reactors in 30 countries today. About 60 reactors are under construction in 15 countries. Countries introducing nuclear power for the first time, called “newcomers”, face a number of key challenges in infrastructure development: completing a national strategy for the programme, developing legal framework and an independent nuclear regulatory …
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 11, 2018 – Anfield Energy Inc. (TSX.V:AEC) (OTCQB:ANLDF) (FRANKFURT:0AD) (“Anfield” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that is has engaged BRS Engineering to complete a mineral resource report for the Taylor Ranch uranium project in Wyoming. The Taylor Ranch project was purchased from Uranium One Americas Inc. (“Uranium One”) in September 2016 and is …
Under difficult uranium market conditions, this U.S. producer is capitalizing on a number of innovative opportunities. Energy Fuels Inc. (EFR:TSX; UUUU:NYSE.American) President and CEO Mark Chalmers addressed the uranium market issues in a recent letter to shareholders, “Things are happening in global uranium markets, namely major production cuts, that we believe will rationalize this market …
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 …