MOSCOW, January 10. /TASS/. Atomredmedzoloto (ARMZ), an affiliate of the mining division of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, maintained uranium mining in Russia in 2017 at the level of 3,000 tonnes, similarly to 2016, the company said on Wednesday. “ARMZ completely delivered the annual plan of strategic feedstock supplies for the nuclear industry, keeping …
The new report from Energy & Natural Resources Market Reports has been published today. It provides updated in 2018 year analysis of energy & natural resources industries. Kazakhstan is situated in an unstable region, bordering weak Central Asian republics such as Uzbekistan and near war-torn Afghanistan. Kazakhstan has a major plant making nuclear fuel pellets and aims …
As India aims to multiply its power generation capacity from 6,780 MW to 22,480 MW in the next 15 years, the government has come up with a three-stage plan for a tenfold increase in uranium production in the next 14 years. The target would be met by utilizing both local and imported sources. New Delhi …
YEKATERINBURG, December 28. /TASS/. New-generation gas centrifuge for uranium enrichment came on stream at the Urals Electrochemical Factory [Novouralsk, Sverdlovsk region] on Thursday, the press service of the factory told TASS. “The enterprise successfully launched five sections of a technological unit equipped with ninth-generation gas centrifuges,” the report said. According to Mikhail Denisov, the chief of …
December 4 2017, Astana – NAC Kazatomprom JSC (“Kazatomprom” and together with its subsidiaries, the “Company”), the world leader in the extraction of natural uranium, today announced its intention to reduce planned uranium production by 20% under Subsoil Use Contracts of Company enterprises, in order to better align its output with demand. The scheduled cuts will …
Kazakh Kazatomprom JSC and Chinese CGNPC company jointly build a plant for the production of fuel assemblies. The plant will be commissioned in 2019 and start production output in 2020, said the Energy Minister of Kazakhstan Kanat Bozumbayev in an interview to ‘Kazakhstanskaya Pravda’ newspaper. The plant will supply 200 tons of nuclear fuel per …
AKIPRESS.COM – Uranium production is projected at 22,000 tons in 2017 in Kazakhstan, Minister of Energy Kanat Bozumbayev said Monday. A leading uranium producer is expected to cut production in 2017 by 2,000 tons. In 2016, Kazakhstan produced 24,000 tons. “Forecast for uranium production is 22,150 tons,” Bozumbayev told reporters Monday. China will remain the main …
US uranium production for 2017 to date is down 17% from the same period in 2016, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest quarterly Domestic Uranium Production Report. Meanwhile, the US Geological Survey (USGS) has found uranium-bearing calcrete formations in the USA for the first time. Total uranium production for the first three-quarters of …
Barrons – News of the shutdown of the world’s largest uranium mine has rallied prices for the heavy metal, and could help revive a market that has suffered ever since Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster nearly seven years ago. Cameco (ticker: CCJ), which provides roughly 17% of the world’s uranium production, announced on Nov. 8 that …
The patience of Cameco Corp. shareholders is being testing yet again, as the Saskatchewan-based uranium producer’s latest round of quarterly earnings fell short of expectations, the company cut its dividend, and now it has decided to temporarily suspend work at two operations. The news sent Cameo shares higher, as the production cut is expected to …
