The draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP 2023) setting out how South Africa will seek to ensure security of electricity supply was formally issued by Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe and will be open to public comments until 23 February. “The purpose of this publication is to solicit public comments on the assumptions, …
After years of playing defence, the nation’s nuclear industry is seizing its startup moment After years of trying to reduce its dependence on nuclear power, France has radically changed its tune, betting heavily on the sector to help reach its climate goals. The French government has committed €1bn as part of its France 2030 plan to support …
In an unprecedented event unfolding in Japan’s Ishikawa Prefecture, the Shika nuclear power plant (NPP), operated by Hokuriku Electric Power Company, suffered a significant oil leak and damage following a powerful earthquake and a series of aftershocks on New Year’s Day. The 7.6-magnitude earthquake, the strongest recorded in the Noto Peninsula region since 1885, sent …
EDF Energy is proposing the creation of more than 800 acres (324 hectares) of saltmarsh on the River Parrett in Somerset, UK, as an alternative to the proposal for 280 underwater speakers to produce an acoustic fish deterrent at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant. Plans for the saltmarsh – proposed to keep some …
The worst earthquake to hit Japan’s Noto Peninsula in at least 130 years could have become yet another roadblock on the path to restarting nuclear power. In fact, the opposite may be true. The Shika atomic plant, some 40 miles from the epicenter and offline when the tremor hit, did lose its grid connection — as happened …
Sprott Asset Management LP (“Sprott Asset Management”), on behalf of the Sprott Physical Uranium Trust (TSX: U.UN) (TSX: U.U) (the “Trust” or “SPUT”), a closed-ended trust created to invest and hold substantially all of its assets in physical uranium, today announced that the Trust has updated its at-the-market equity program (the “ATM Program”) to issue …
Let’s start with nuclear energy. It’s back! After being unloved, forgotten and punished for a decade, it’s rising again. Some call it a nuclear renaissance but I like to think of it as a resurgence given the growing momentum. Who would have thought that in just two years, public sentiment and government support would have …
Mr. Govind Friedland reports: 15,835 m drilling program completed on Muntanga and Dibbwi East deposits Infill drilling designed to upgrade mineral resources from inferred into indicated Technical work on track to complete Feasibility Study and ESIA in 2024 with a goal to start uranium production within two years of securing financing GoviEx Uranium Inc. (TSXV: GXU) …
The construction of two Hualong One reactors at each of the Taipingling and Jinqimen sites was approved by China’s State Council at a 29 December meeting. Meanwhile, various milestones have been reached in the construction of other Chinese units. At the meeting of the Standing Committee of the State Council, chaired by Chinese Premier Li …
Agreements linked to the construction of new reactors at the Kudankulam site in Tamil Nadu were signed during a five-day visit to Moscow by India’s Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. The agreements on Kudankulam were signed during a 25 December meeting on bilateral economic cooperation between Jaishankar and Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov. …
