Poland is considering the site of Europe’s largest coal-fired power station as a location for a nuclear plant, part of Warsaw’s ambitious reactor new-build programme, Piotr Naimski, secretary of state for strategic energy infrastructure, told local RMF FM radio. Mr Naimski said Poland’s first two or three units will be built at one of two …
The 2021 Performance Program of Turkey’s Energy and Natural Resources Ministry has drawn a road map for the completion of the country’s first nuclear power plant, the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which says 27.5% of the plant will be completed by the end of this year. The program, which outlines the steps that will …
Winter storms in parts of the south and central U.S. have led to a surge in the need for power, rallying prices for natural gas as traders look toward a rise in nuclear power demand and consumption of uranium. The southern Plains has been “transformed into southern Siberia due to brutally cold Arctic air that …
French power group EDF said on Wednesday it could double its growth target for renewable energy and become a European champion in the field provided a planned re-organisation, code-named Hercules, can get the go-ahead. State-controlled EDF says the revamp, which will separate the debt-laden nuclear power business from the rest of the company’s assets, will …
As the weekly uranium spot price continues to move in a tight range, new research explores the effect of delaying nuclear plant closures on global uranium demand. -The effect on uranium demand of delaying plant closures -Fourth quarter results for Kazatomprom -Uranium spot price falls marginally In the wake of President Biden’s inclusion of nuclear …
While silver stocks on the ASX retreated after their exuberant buying spree on Monday, Tuesday was a day in the sun for their uranium counterparts. The trigger for the yellowcake stocks was, unlike Reddit in the case of silver, a more established source – the Bank of America (BofA). As the Australian market opened on Tuesday, …
While we have previously laid out the bullish case for uranium stocks in general, and Cameco (CCJ) – which controls the world’s largest high-grade uranium reserves and low-cost operations and is one of the largest global providers of the uranium fuel – in particular (here, here, here and here), today this thesis got a swift boost …
OSAKA – The mayor of the town of Takahama in Fukui Prefecture granted permission Monday for the restart of the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama Nuclear Power Plant, becoming the first local leader in the nation to approve use of nuclear reactors more than 40 years old. The Takahama No. …
TEHRAN- Hadi Beiginejad, a senior member of the Parliament’s Energy Committee, said on Sunday that Iran has started construction of phases 2 and 3 of the Bushehr nuclear power plant. “The second and third phases of the Bushehr power plant development have been signed with the Russians under 10-year and 8-year contracts,” Fars quoted Beiginejad …
The Bulgarian Council of Ministers, at a meeting on 20 January, approved plans presented by the Minister of Energy to construct a seventh unit at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant using Russian-supplied equipment purchased for the Belene project. The minister noted discussions have been held with Westinghouse of the USA to construct the unit. During …
