Skyharbour Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: SYH) (OTCQB: SYHBF) (Frankfurt: SC1P) (the “Company”) announces that it has arranged a non-brokered private placement of up to 4,000,000 units of the Company (the “Units”) at a price of CAD $0.15 per Unit and up to 3,333,333 flow-through units (the “FT Units”) at a price of CAD $0.18 per FT Unit, for …
As part of India’s strategy to expand its footprint in Africa, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is exploring supply of small nuclear power reactors to the electricity-starved countries. Interestingly, India’s civilian nuclear power programme has caught the fancy of African countries because climate change has impacted their conventional hydropower generation capacity, which was primarily …
The United States is ending a sanctions waiver for civil-nuclear work at a site where Iran recently announced it was enriching uranium, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday. “The United States will terminate the sanctions waiver related to the nuclear facility at Fordow effective Dec. 15, 2019,” Pompeo told reporters at the State Department. “The …
India will renew its pact with Kazakhstan for supply of uranium from 2020 to 2024, the ambassador of the central Asian country said on Monday. Kazakhstan has so far supplied a total of 9,000 tonnes of uranium, and another 1,000 tonne is yet to be delivered under two five-year contract periods that end this year. …
China’s first commercial nuclear heating project has begun operating at the Haiyang nuclear power plant in Shandong province. The plant’s two AP1000 units will initially provide heating to 700,000 square metres of housing. Shandong Nuclear Power Company (SDNPC) – a subsidiary of State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) and the owner of Haiyang plant – announced …
The Czech Republic approved the construction of the Dukovany II nuclear power plant, and has set a target date for completion of 2036. According to the Czech parliamentary committee for the construction of new nuclear resources, this is an important step to maintain the self-sufficiency of the country. The committee claims that by 2040, renewable …
Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, on Thursday ignored pleas from the Green party to scrap a nuclear agreement with Brazil. “Our cooperation in this area has worked well for decades,” Parliamentary State Secretary for the Environment Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) said. “There are currently no plans to cancel the agreement.” The …
The estimated cost of safety measures at nuclear power plants across Japan has increased fivefold over the past six years to just over 5.38 trillion yen, a Mainichi Shimbun survey has shown. Eleven power producers spent the funds to implement stiffened safety standards at 15 nuclear power plants, including those currently under construction, according to …
President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Energy Department, Dan Brouillette, will face questions at his U.S. Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday on issues including the future of coal and nuclear power. Brouillette, 57, a former lobbyist at Ford Motor Co and Louisiana state energy regulator, would replace Rick Perry, who has said he is …
The UK government is considering the Regulated Asset Base model for financing new nuclear projects. With the model allowing for revenues to be released during construction, could this model – already proven in other large infrastructure projects – break the impasse that has kept UK nuclear on the back foot in recent years? Chris Lo …
