Work will begin next year at the Wylfa site (pictured above), with the aim of generating power by the mid 2030s A first-of-its-kind nuclear power station is to be built on Anglesey, bringing up to 3,000 jobs and billions of pounds of investment. The plant at Wylfa, on the Welsh island’s northern coast, will have …
Urenco publishes small modular reactor report during COP30. The small modular reactor (SMR) market could support the decarbonisation of at least 11 industrial sectors that make up the majority of industrial energy demand by 2050 in North America and Europe with a potential market of 700GW by 2050, an independent study published today has found. …
NexGen Energy Ltd. (TSX: NXE) (NYSE: NXE) (ASX: NXG) (“NexGen” or the “Company”) is excited to announce significant geochemical assay results from NexGen’s 100%-owned Patterson Corridor East (“PCE”) discovery. Drillhole RK-25-254 returned 10.5 meters (“m”) at 11.3% U3O8 including 4.0m at 29.4% U3O8 and 0.5m at 56.2% U3O8 (Figures 1 and 2, Table 1). Notably, mineralization in RK-25-254 is 55m up dip from hole RK-25-232 which intersected 15.0m …
Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. (TSXV: PTU) (OTCQB: PTUUF) (“Purepoint” or the “Company”) today announced the completion of its inaugural drill program at the 100%-owned Tabbernor Project, located on the southeastern edge of Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin. The program consisted of five first-pass diamond drill holes, targeting a 60-kilometre-long corridor of graphitic conductors defined through two years of detailed airborne geophysical …
As Finland is striving to free itself from Russian energy imports, the country remains crucially dependent on its neighbor for fueling the transition. Russia’s share in Finland’s energy import has gone down to almost zero Olkiluoto island on the western coast of Finland used to be just an energy hub for the country bordering Russia. But with …
The Turkish government has publicly acknowledged its dependence on Russia for uranium fuel at the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, an admission that reflects both growing discomfort in Ankara and a wider effort to rebalance relations toward the West. Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar told parliament’s budget committee on November 7 that Turkey relies entirely on Russia’s …
Nuclear power plants will receive the bulk of the money from the Energy Department’s loan office, Secretary Chris Wright said. The Trump administration struck a deal last month with the owners of Westinghouse to invest $80 billion to build nuclear plants across the U.S. Nuclear power will receive most of the money from the Energy …
The governor of Japan’s Niigata Prefecture will make a rare visit to one of the country’s most-troubled nuclear power plants this week, an event that will be watched closely by gas traders for any hint that the facility might be restarted. Hideyo Hanazumi is scheduled to visit Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant …
After years of federal efforts to revive nuclear power, old mines are stirring again in Wyoming, Texas and Arizona, while new ones line up for permitting expedited by a Trump executive order. The remote dirt road through dusty fields of sagebrush that John Cash drove along in June seemed to pass little of economic value. …
Story highlights The Indo-Russian Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant is the largest nuclear facility in India. Of its six VVER-1000 type reactors, units 1 and 2 were connected to India’s national power grid in 2013 and 2016 respectively. The third unit of the six-unit Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu …
