A little more than a month away from Palisades Nuclear Plant’s retirement date, the community is in the middle of an effort to quantify the plant closure’s impact on their economy — and on the electric grid. When the 811-megawatt plant goes offline May 31, Consumers Energy, which buys power from the Entergy-owned plant, will lose a …
Election front-runner would continue Duterte’s conciliatory stance on China Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the late Philippine dictator, is planning to bring nuclear power to the country should he maintain his wide lead in the polls and win the May 9 presidential election. “Our vision for the country is to have at …
The steel reactor pit has been installed for the ACP100 multi-purpose small modular reactor (SMR) demonstration project at China’s Changjiang NPP on the island province of Hainan China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said. The 4.85-tonne reactor pit was installed on 7 April in an operation lasting 40 minutes. The steel pit was designed and manufactured …
OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of regulated markets for 12,000 U.S. and international securities, today announced Sprott Physical Uranium Trust (TSX: U.UN/U.U; OTCQX: SRUUF), has qualified to trade on the OTCQX® Best Market. Sprott Physical Uranium Trust upgraded to OTCQX from the OTCQB® Venture Market. Sprott Physical Uranium Trust begins trading today on OTCQX under the …
Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. (TSXV: PTU) (“Purepoint” or the “Company”) has announced the closing of its brokered private placement (the “Private Placement”) previously announced on March 14, 2022, with Red Cloud Securities Inc. (“Red Cloud”) pursuant to which Red Cloud acted as lead agent and sole bookrunner. In connection with the closing, the Company issued …
South China’s Guangdong Province, a major manufacturing hub, released its 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) for energy on Wednesday, vowing to promote the development of clean energy while ensuring energy security. According to the plan released by the provincial government, Guangdong will develop the nuclear energy industry, with new nuclear power industrial parks to be built …
How did a guy who grew up playing road hockey in this prairie province end up being on the board of the World Nuclear Association? Joe O’Connor has the story Tim Leier’s phone lit up at 6:19 a.m. on April 1. It was “Gitty” texting him from the Prague airport to let him know he …
Exclusive: a massive move to sustainability is driving the UAE’s industrial sector focus, says chief executive of Dubal Holding, which owns 50 per cent of EGA Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the UAE’s biggest industrial company outside the oil and gas sector, will soon make a complete shift to nuclear and solar energy to produce aluminium, …
Both Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, the candidates that qualified for the second round of the French presidential election, support the revival of nuclear energy. However, they differ in their ambitions, strategies and modus operandi. EURACTIV France reports. EDF, the French multinational electric utility company, is looking to diversify its energy sources – in particular, focusing …
Energy Fuels Inc. (NYSE: UUUU) (TSX: EFR) (“Energy Fuels” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that during the week of April 4, the Company’s White Mesa Mill located near Blanding, Utah (the “Mill“) made three (3) commercial shipments of three (3) critical mineral products. During that week, Energy Fuels shipped: Natural uranium concentrates (“U3O8“) to the Metropolis …
