CNSC renews T.CCO Corporation’s nuclear fuel facility licence for its Blind River Refinery for a 10-year period

Today, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announced the Commission’s decision to renew the Class IB nuclear fuel facility licence held by Cameco Corporation (Cameco) for its Blind River Refinery, located south of the Mississauga First Nation community and approximately 5 kilometres west of the Town of Blind River in Ontario. This decision follows a …

CNSC renews T.CCO’s nuclear fuel facility licence for T.CCO Fuel Manufacturing Inc. for a 1-year period

Today, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announced its decision to renew, for a period of 1 year, the nuclear fuel facility licence held by Cameco Corporation (Cameco) for Cameco Fuel Manufacturing Inc. (CFM), located in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario, and on the traditional territory of the Mississauga Anishnaabeg, Wendat, and the territory covered …

Duke in Talks With Nuclear Firms as It Mulls Small Reactors

Duke Energy Corp. is working with some of the biggest names in new nuclear technology as it considers future investments in small-scale reactors to help advance its clean-energy push. “We are spending time with small modular reactors and with advanced nuclear with storage capability,” Chief Executive Officer Lynn Good said Thursday in an interview with …

T.UEC 2022 Letter to Shareholders

Uranium Energy Corp (NYSE American: UEC, the “Company” or “UEC”) is pleased to provide the following letter to its shareholders on the outlook for the Company in 2022 from President and CEO, Amir Adnani. Dear Shareholder, 2022 begins with the highest uranium price in a decade and a positive global outlook for nuclear energy not …

T.DML Announces Intersection of 24.9% eU3O8 over 4.2 metres extending beyond high-grade domain at Phoenix Zone A

Denison Mines Corp. (“Denison” or the “Company”) (TSX: DML) (NYSE American: DNN) is pleased to announce multiple intersections of high-grade uranium mineralization beyond the previously defined extents of the high-grade domain in the Phase 1 area of the Zone A portion of the Phoenix uranium deposit (“Phoenix”) at the Company’s effective 95%-owned Wheeler River Uranium Project (“Wheeler River” …

DOE to offer $6B to keep struggling nuclear reactors online

       Brief: The Department of Energy (DOE) will spend $6 billion on a program designed to keep nuclear power plants from closing, according to a notice of intent published last week. The department’s Civil Nuclear Credit Program is backed by funding from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law in November. The program will …

What I Wish Nuclear Energy Opponents Understood Will Happen if They Win

Smoke rises from a chimney at the Bugey Nuclear Power Plant in Saint-Vulbas, France, on Jan. 25. A dispatch from a possible 2072. The year is 2072. Any hope of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is long dead. Earth’s mean temperature is about 2.1 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels—and climbing still, with human …

Russian government allocates about RUB100 billion for new nuclear projects

The Government of the Russian Federation will allocate about RUB100 billion ($1.3bn) for new nuclear projects, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced on 11 February. Projects for the creation of new nuclear power facilities will receive about RUB56 billion from the National Wealth Fund (NWF), another RUB40 billion will be allocated from the budget. “We have …