Director Oliver Stone attends the “Nuclear” red carpet at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on September 09, 2022 in Venice, Italy. Oliver Stone’s new movie, “Nuclear Now,” makes an impassioned plea that nuclear energy is a necessary and obvious solution to climate change. The movie had a special screening at the World Economic Forum …
Total Roughrider Project resources are 27.8 million lbs. U3O8 in 389,000 tonnes grading 3.25% U3O8 in the Indicated category and 36.0 million lbs. U3O8 in 359,000 tonnes grading 4.55% U3O8 in the Inferred category (Table 1). Following the acquisition of the Roughrider Project in 2012, Rio Tinto completed additional delineation and geotechnical drilling during 2012 through 2016, further delineating …
Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. (TSXV: PTU) (OTCQB: PTUUF) (“Purepoint” or the “Company“) today provided results from a helicopter-borne versatile time domain electromagnetic (VTEM) survey across its 100% owned Tabbernor Project that lies on the eastern edge of the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan Canada. “Our Tabbernor VTEM survey has provided us with excellent first-pass exploration target areas; …
Georgia Power today announced the completion of hot functional testing for Unit 4 at the Vogtle nuclear expansion project near Waynesboro, Ga. The completion of hot functional testing marks a significant step towards operations and providing customers with a reliable, carbon-free energy source for the next 60 to 80 years. Unit 4 is projected to enter service …
The nuclear industry’s big bet on going small. Inside the Transient Reactor Test Facility, a towering, windowless gray block surrounded by barbed wire, researchers are about to embark on a mission to solve one of humanity’s greatest problems with a tiny device. Next year, they will begin construction on the MARVEL reactor. MARVEL stands for Microreactor …
Several American startups are working on building a new generation of small reactors that could push nuclear energy into a new phase, with support from the US government. During a recent hearing before the House Appropriations Committee, US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm restated the “importance of nuclear energy” for the current administration regarding America’s …
NexGen Energy Ltd. (“NexGen” or the “Company”) (TSX: NXE) (NYSE: NXE) (ASX: NXG) is pleased to announce that it has received significant initial interest from prospective financial institutions, including commercial lenders and export credit agencies, for providing project financing for the Rook I Project (the “Project” or “Rook I”). To date, NexGen has received non-binding expressions of …
Cameco reports first quarter results, solid quarter demonstrating the strength and purpose of our strategy; long-term contracting success in new markets; still early days of a market transition Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) today reported its consolidated financial and operating results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023, in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards …
OSGE Vice President Dawid Jackiewicz handed in the application to the ministry on 27 April, the company said in a tweet (Image: OSGE) Orlen Synthos Green Energy (OSGE) has submitted applications to Poland’s Ministry of Climate for a decision-in-principle on the construction of power plants based on GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s BWRX-300 small modular reactor …
The Palisades Nuclear Generating Station previously supplied 5 percent of Michigan’s electricity. Just months after it was supposedly shut down for good, a Michigan nuclear power plant could come roaring back to life with help from the very company charged with its demolition. According to an AP report published on Wednesday, Holtec Decommissioning International hopes to resurrect the 800 megawatt …