Russia’s newest nuclear-powered icebreaker, the Sibir, has left the Baltic Shipyard and headed into the Gulf of Finland for sea trials. Two more identical ships are under construction at the shipyard near Saint Petersburg. Sibir is the first series-produced universal icebreaker of so-called Project 22220, after the first of that class, the Arktika, which entered operation a year …
Global Atomic Corporation (“Global Atomic” or the “Company”)(TSX: GLO, OTCQX: GLATF, FRANKFURT: G12) is pleased to announce that due to significant demand, the Company and Red Cloud Securities Inc., as lead underwriter and sole bookrunner on behalf of a syndicate of underwriters (the “Underwriters”), have agreed to increase the size of the previously announced private …
Skyharbour Resources Ltd.’s (TSX-V: SYH) (OTCQB: SYHBF) (Frankfurt: SC1P) (“Skyharbour” or the “Company”) partner company Medaro Mining Corp. (“Medaro”) has announced plans for an upcoming exploration program at the Yurchison Project (the “Property”). The exploration program is slated to commence this winter with the goal of locating new high-priority drill targets and refining existing historical targets. The Yurchison Property is located in …
Nuclear is a notable absentee from the list of renewables in Indonesian power utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara’s (PLN) latest plan for the next decade, but flip the page to the country’s ambitious 2060 zero-carbon scenario and it figures prominently after 2035. For nuclear exponent Bob Effendi, the door is now irrevocably open. “The political decision …
The Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment will provide crucial operational data for fast-spectrum salt reactors and unlock this uniquely flexible advanced reactor technology for use in a net-zero future. Southern Company and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have established a cooperative agreement to design, construct and operate the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment – the world’s …
“We’ll likely have more accidents than existing reactors because it’s a new technology, but these will be accidents and not disasters,” says Troels Schonfeldt, co-founder of Denmark’s Seaborg Technologies. His nuclear power company is one of several developing a new generation of smaller nuclear power plants. Like others in the industry, Mr Schonfeldt wants to …
A Canadian utility sold green bonds to help fund an overhaul of nuclear reactors, a rare use of proceeds that was seen as a test for sustainable debt investors. Bruce Power LP priced C$500 million ($396.8 million) in bonds on Thursday after holding meetings this week to discuss its green financing framework, according to people …
UEX Corporation (TSX:UEX) (“UEX” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce it has filed a technical report on the Horseshoe-Raven Project (the “Technical Report”) located in the eastern Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan, prepared in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 “Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects” (“NI-43-101”). In 2011 a Preliminary Economic Assessment titled “Preliminary Assessment …
Big Carl, the world’s biggest crane has been in action again at Hinkley Point C. It has placed the first huge steel ring section onto the second reactor building, just 11 months after the same operation on the first reactor. The installation shows how building an identical copy of the first reactor drives efficiency and …
On a conference-room whiteboard in the heart of Silicon Valley, Jacob DeWitte sketches his startup’s first product. In red marker, it looks like a beer can in a Koozie, stuck with a crazy straw. In real life, it will be about the size of a hot tub, and made from an array of exotic materials, …
