Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih speaks during an interview in Washington, DC, U.S. March 22, 2018. REUTERS/Valerie Volcovici Saudi Arabia has international partners it can work with if the United States walks away from a potential deal on nuclear power technology over concerns about nuclear proliferation, Khalid al-Falih, the kingdom’s energy minister, said in …
U.S. uranium miners are fighting for relief from imports The Commerce Department is still reviewing their petition Trump Says China Tariffs Could Affect $60 Billion in Goods On Thursday, as President Donald Trump ordered tariffs on Chinese goods, he warned, “This is the first of many.” Well, if he’s serious, here’s another potential trade target: uranium. In …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill on Wednesday to ensure that countries striking deals with Washington on sharing nuclear power technology abandon fuel-making activities that could be altered to make material for nuclear weapons. U.S. Representatives Ilea Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican, and Brad Sherman, a Democrat, introduced the bill as officials from Saudi Arabia …
Saudi Arabia’s pursuit of a nuclear energy program grabbed headlines last week after Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman told CBS News that if Iran were to build a nuclear bomb, so would Saudi Arabia. The kingdom is refusing to accept a deal that would forbid it from enriching uranium and reprocessing plutonium, the mechanisms necessary …
On March 19, the Town Assembly in Genkai, where the Genkai Nuclear Power Plants, owned and operated by the Kyushu Electric Power Co., is located, approved a proposal asking the central government to come out clearly in the Strategic Energy Plan in favor of construction of new NPPs. As restarting of the Genkai-3 and -4 …
The head of the Czech Chamber of Commerce has hit out at current prime minister Andrej Babiš for his stance that state dominated utility ČEZ should be able to build new nuclear reactors on its own without any help. Chamber president Vladimír Dlouhý, speaking at an energy conference in Prague, said such a position was …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian state nuclear agency Rosatom said on Monday that Russia and China have agreed to work together on a uranium mining project in Russia, RIA news agency reported. Russia and China signed an agreement about investments in the project on Monday, RIA said. Source: Reuters
China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), one of the country’s two leading nuclear power companies, is stepping up its overseas cooperation, the chairperson said Saturday. Progress is being made in cooperation with CNNC’s local partners in countries like Pakistan, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Ghana and the United States, CNNC chairperson Wang Shoujun said on the sidelines of …
India and Vietnam have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen their cooperation in nuclear energy. The agreement was one of three MoUs signed during Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang’s visit to India. The MoU was signed on 3 March in New Delhi by Sekhar Basu, secretary of India’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), …
Russia, India and Bangladesh signed a trilateral agreement on Thursday to cooperate in the construction of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh, work on which started late last year, according to an announcement from Russia`s Rosatom State Atomic Energy Cooperation. Rosatom, the equipment supplier and technical consultant for the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in …