The three-unit Tihange plant (Image: Electrabel) The Belgian government has asked energy company Engie to see if it can extend the operating life of Tihange unit 2 until the end of the winter peak electricity season. “The government has asked the nuclear operator to prolong the functioning of Tihange 2 until the winter peak has …
FISSION URANIUM CORP. (” Fission ” or the ” Company “) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an engagement and communication agreement (the ” Agreement “) with the Buffalo River Dene Nation (“BRDN”). Fission’s PLS project (the ” Project “) in the southwest Athabasca Basin region is within the BRDN’s Ancestral Lands. Fission commenced an Environmental Assessment in December 2021 and is currently advancing through …
John Gorman, president and chief executive of the Canadian Nuclear Association, says the oilsands is the biggest market for small modular reactors. An illustration of one of those reactors is shown here. (NuScale Power) The consortium Pathways Alliance is looking at small modular reactors to power the oil patch The pressing global need to slash emissions …
IsoEnergy Ltd. (“IsoEnergy” or the “Company”) (TSXV: ISO; OTCQX: ISENF) is pleased to provide an update on its winter exploration results and to announce its summer 2022 exploration plans for its eastern Athabasca Basin uranium properties (Figure 1). Winter Assay Results and Geophysical Surveys Update Larocque East Project Chemical assays are summarized in Table 1 …
NexGen Energy Ltd. (“NexGen” or the “Company”) (TSX: NXE) (NYSE: NXE) (ASX: NXG) is pleased to announce that on July 12, 2022, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (“CNSC”) announced their acceptance of the draft Environmental Impact Statement (the “EIS”) which the Company completed submission of in June 2022 (see News Release dated June 21, 2022). The acceptance …
Workers pouring concrete into the reactor building’s foundation raft (Image: SNERDI) The first safety-related concrete has been poured for the nuclear island of unit 3 at the Haiyang nuclear power plant, the Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute (SNERDI) has announced. It marks the official start of construction of the first of two CAP1000 …
Nuclear power provided secure and reliable low-emission electricity amid evolving global crises in 2021, notching its second highest annual output of the last decade as the world emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to annual data released by the IAEA Power Reactor Information System (PRIS). The 2021 nuclear power operating statistics provided by IAEA Member …
Drilling also underway at JCU’s Waterfound River Project UEX Corporation (TSX:UEX) (“UEX” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the commencement of the 2022 summer exploration drilling program at its Christie Lake Project located in the Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan (see Figure 1). A summer drilling program also commenced on the Waterfound River Project, in …
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he asked for as many as nine nuclear reactors to be online this winter to help with an expected power crunch. “There are concerns about a power shortage this winter,” Kishida told a news conference Thursday. “We must prevent this situation.” The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will …
An employee leaves in his car from the nuclear plant on Three Mile Island, with the operational plant run by Exelon Generation on the right, in Middletown, Pennsylvania on March 26, 2019. Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good tells the CNBC Evolve Global Summit that energy transition is happening, but there is no technology that exists …
