The Cabinet agreed on a package of bills Tuesday to allow nuclear reactors to operate beyond their current 60-year limit, marking a major shift in government policy since the 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima Prefecture. The government aims to pass the bills in the current Diet session. The package of bills will revise five laws: …
Eleven EU member states vowed on Tuesday to “strengthen cooperation” on nuclear energy, which they said would help Europe move away from carbon-emitting fossil fuels. Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia agreed “to support new projects” alongside existing nuclear plants, according to a statement released during a meeting …
Global Atomic Corporation (“Global Atomic” or the “Company”) (TSX: GLO) (FRANKFURT: G12) announced today that the Company’s joint venture, Befesa Silvermet Turkey (“BST”), zinc production plant, is expected to resume operations in early March, following the earthquake of February 6, 2023. The BST plant sustained only minimal damage and following a thorough assessment, has been declared operational. …
French energy transition minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher will meet on Tuesday (28 February) with twelve counterparts in Stockholm to discuss the potential launch of a brand new “nuclear alliance” within the EU. Pannier-Runacher will be in Stockholm on Monday and Tuesday (27 and 28 February) for two days of informal talks with fellow EU energy and …
The first new nuclear reactor for a British power station for more than 30 years has arrived in Somerset. At just 13-metres long and weighing 500-tonnes, the “reactor pressure vessel” will create the heat needed to make steam for the world’s largest turbines. It is the first of two nuclear reactors which will be installed …
Global Atomic Corporation (“Global Atomic” or the “Company”) (TSX: GLO, FRANKFURT: G12) announced today that further to its news release dated February 14, 2023 an appeal of the orders granted last week against the Company’s Niger subsidiary, SOMIDA S.A., was heard today in the Appeals Court in Tahoua, Niger. It is anticipated that the court …
Sprott Inc. (NYSE/TSX: SII) (“Sprott” or the “Company”) today announced its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2022. Management commentary “Sprott’s positioning in precious metals and energy transition materials served our shareholders well in 2022, as Assets Under Management (“AUM”) grew to $23.4 billion, up $3 billion from December 31, 2021. Our asset growth …
Of course the company that figured out chiplets says the answer is more chiplets Within the next 10 years, the world’s most powerful supercomputers won’t just simulate nuclear reactions, they may well run on them. That is, if we don’t take drastic steps to improve the efficiency of our compute architectures, AMD CEO Lisa Su …
Global Atomic Corporation (“Global Atomic” or the “Company”) (TSX: GLO, FRANKFURT: G12) announced that the Appeals Court in Tahoua, Niger overturned and annulled all issues raised against the Company’s Niger subsidiary, SOMIDA S.A. As the Dasa Project is of major importance to the economy of Niger, the Hearing was treated as a special case and …
The semi-state company JESS has asked for the permit to build the plant in Jaslovské Bohunice. While the dominant electricity producer Slovenské Elektrárne is intensively working on completing the third and fourth units of its nuclear power plant in Mochovce, the semi-state company JESS has advanced in its preparation of a brand new power plant …
