– Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. (TSXV: PTU) (OTCQB: PTUUF) (“Purepoint” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the commencement of a first-pass drill program along the high-priority Groomes Lake Conductive Corridor at the Smart Lake Joint Venture (JV) project in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin. The program will include four drill holes, totalling approximately 1,400 metres, to …
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Monday it aims to restart a reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, in the fiscal year starting next month. The reactor restart is expected to boost TEPCO’s earnings by around 100 billion yen per year, the company said in a revised business …
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright today announced the release of the second loan disbursement to Holtec for the Palisades Nuclear Plant. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chris Wright today announced the release of the second loan disbursement to Holtec for the Palisades Nuclear Plant. Today’s action releases $56,787,300 of the up to …
Kitco’s Senior Mining Editor and Anchor Paul Harris interviews John Ciampaglia, CEO of Sprott Asset Management, at the 2025 BMO Global Metals, Mining & Critical Minerals Conference. Ciampaglia discusses the impact of potential tariffs on metal markets and the resulting price volatility and arbitrage opportunities. The conversation also explores the increasing interest in physical …
SMRs in rural Arizona would be exempt from review if the units are colocated with certain large industrial loads or built at power plants that previously received environmental certification. Arizona utilities would be allowed to bypass a key state environmental review process to deploy small modular nuclear reactors on or near certain power plants and …
A secure nuclear fuel supply chain is a national security imperative. With demand for nuclear energy growing worldwide, the need for nuclear fuel is urgent and critical to international competitiveness. Russia and China are boxing the US out of the global nuclear market by dominating uranium enrichment and luring reactor customers with attractive nuclear fuel …
Denison Mines Corp. (‘Denison’ or the ‘Company’) (TSX: DML) (NYSE American: DNN) today filed its Audited Consolidated Financial Statements and Management’s Discussion & Analysis (‘MD&A’) for the year ended December 31, 2024. Both documents will be available on the Company’s website (at www.denisonmines.com), SEDAR+ (at www.sedarplus.ca) and EDGAR (at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml). The highlights provided below are derived from these documents and should …
Once the project is sanctioned, it will take 60-72 months for the reactor to be constructed, Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh informs Lok Sabha The “concept design” stage of India’s proposed Bharat Small Modular Reactor (BSMR) has been completed and is in the process of being approved. Once the project …
Fourth-quarter 2024 U.S. production of uranium concentrate (U3O8) in the fourth quarter of 2024 totaled 375,401 pounds U3O8, more than triple the third quarter production of 121,296 pounds U3O8. This quarter’s total uranium production occurred at seven facilities, four in Wyoming (Nichols Ranch ISR Project, Lost Creek Project, Ross CPP and Smith Ranch-Highland Operation), two …
Orano and Navoiyuran announce an agreement laying the foundations for the industrial development of the South Djengeldi uranium mining project of their joint venture Nurlikum Mining. According to the terms of the agreement, the South Djengeldi project will be integrated into the existing industrial base of Navoiyuran that will be the project’s operator. The agreement …
