Poland’s Council of Ministers has adopted a draft act amending the act on the preparation and implementation of investments in nuclear power facilities and associated investments, the country’s National Atomic Energy Agency (Państwowa Agencja Atomistyki) announced. The main goal of the changes is to shorten the time of investment implementation. In September last year, it …
Dive Brief: The push for carbon-free energy will drive the growth of small modular reactors, or SMRs, with 300 of them expected to be online by 2050 supplying 731 TWh of power, according to the results of a survey the Nuclear Energy Institute conducted with a subset of its member utilities and released Aug. 5. The 19 …
Share The concreting of the inner containment dome of the reactor building of unit 2 at the Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh has been started. Workers begin concreting the inner dome of Rooppur 2 (Image: Rosatom) More than 3200 cubic metres of concrete will be pumped onto the 17.6-metre-high reinforced concrete structure, with a …
The CA20 module prior to its hoisting into position in the nuclear island of Sanmen 3 (Image: CNNC) The largest and heaviest module has been installed at unit 3 of the Sanmen nuclear power plant in China’s Zhejiang province, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has announced. The cuboid-shaped CA20 module comprises plant and equipment for …
In a first for Japan since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, public support for a nuclear restart is now at more than 60%, said a former executive director of the International Energy Agency. Nobuo Tanaka attributed that to the possibility of “serious problems by the end of this year” if Japan does not have …
The world’s first commercial land-based small modular reactor, or SMR, is under construction in southern China’s Hainan Province. Our reporter Zheng Yibing visited the power plant where the unit is located. China’s building the demonstration project of the “Linglong-1,” a small modular reactor in the country’s southern island province of Hainan. It’s the world’s first such type …
Move prompted by the mounting economic war with Russia marks the first departure from a two-decade policy to abandon nuclear energy Germany plans to postpone the closure of the country’s last three nuclear power plants as it braces for a possible shortage of energy this winter after Russia throttled gas supplies to the country, said …
Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. (TSXV: PTU) (“Purepoint” or the “Company”) today provided an update on the broad array of geophysical programs underway this summer. This week the company commenced a helicopter-borne versatile time domain electromagnetic (VTEM) survey across four of its projects, collectively referred to as the Tabbernor Block, all of which lie on the …
UEX Corporation (TSX:UEX, OTCQB:UEXCF) (“UEX” or the “Company”) is pleased to confirm that securityholders of UEX approved, at the special meeting of UEX securityholders held earlier today (the “Meeting”), the special resolution (the “Arrangement Resolution”) in respect of a statutory plan of arrangement (the “Arrangement”) under the Canada Business Corporations Act (the “CBCA”) pursuant to which UEC 2022 …
President Biden’s signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) should provide further impetus for growth of U.S. renewable energy, coming on the heels of a report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that installations of solar and wind power accounted for more than two-thirds of new domestic utility-scale generation in the first six months of this …
