PARIS, Dec 5 (Reuters) – France’s ASN nuclear regulator has given approval for the country’s state-controlled utility EDF to restart its Tricastin nuclear reactors, the ASN said in a statement. The ASN said it had given approval for EDF to restart reactors 2, 3 and 4. The four reactors have been offline since September as …
Last month, the French government dropped a legal target set by the previous government to reduce the share of nuclear to 50 percent by 2025, from 75 percent today. “We want to reach this objective. Our method will be to be as realistic as possible,” Poirson told reporters at the annual conference of the UFE …
The Unit 2 of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu reached its full capacity of 1000 MW on Tuesday. This is the first time both units 1 and 2 of KNPP attained its full generation capacity. The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) attained its full generation capacity for the first time and became the …
AZARGA URANIUM CORP. (TSX:AZZ) (“Azarga Uranium” or the “Company”) announces that Blake Steele has been appointed as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer and that Richard Clement has resigned as the Interim Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Steele has been with the Company for over three years and was formerly the Chief Financial Officer and …
AZARGA URANIUM CORP. (TSX:AZZ) (“Azarga Uranium” or the “Company”) announces that Blake Steele has been appointed as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer and that Richard Clement has resigned as the Interim Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Steele has been with the Company for over three years and was formerly the Chief Financial Officer and Corporate …
December 4 2017, Astana – NAC Kazatomprom JSC (“Kazatomprom” and together with its subsidiaries, the “Company”), the world leader in the extraction of natural uranium, today announced its intention to reduce planned uranium production by 20% under Subsoil Use Contracts of Company enterprises, in order to better align its output with demand. The scheduled cuts will …
AMMAN, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) — Jordan and the United States on Saturday signed a deal on building a gas-cooled nuclear reactor with a total capacity of 76 megawatts. The Jordan Atomic Energy Commission and the U.S.-based company X-energy signed a Memorandum of Understanding to conducts necessary studies for the building of the nuclear reactor, model …
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 …
