Howard Green speaks with Tim Gitzel, CEO of Saskatchewan-based uranium company Cameco Corporation, about nuclear power and climate change. Generating clean electricity is one of the most pressing issues facing humankind. More than half of the world’s greenhouse gases come from producing electrical power. So to get to net zero targets, the world needs to …
Kazatomprom has reduced its expected production figures for 2021 due to delays in exploration and wellfield development activity, citing pandemic-related supply chain issues which have had a material impact on production schedules. The Kazakh uranium producer’s announcement comes days after Canadian company Cameco reduced its forecast for fuel services production for the year citing supply …
Will we see a similar price run to the early 2000s? Uranium, the commodity that provides us with nuclear fuel used to generate electricity in nuclear power stations, has surged to price levels last seen in 2015. Many are saying that the current market dynamics have created a uranium squeeze that could propel the commodity …
Australia is a country nearly the size of the continental US with a population of about 26 million people. It is a country with vast open spaces. Most of its population is found on its east coast in New South Wales and Queensland, some population centers in Western Australia, South Australia, the Northern Territories and …
EDF EDF.PA said nuclear power generation at its French reactors rose 26.5% in August to 29 terawatt hours (TWh), compared with 22.9 TWh in the same month last year, reflecting the impact of the coronavirus crisis a year ago. In a website update, EDF said total nuclear generation in France since the start of the …
The UK government says nuclear will play a significant role in developing a thriving low-carbon hydrogen sector to meet the country’s ambition for 5GW of low-carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030. Releasing its Hydrogen Strategy today, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy said a hydrogen economy could support over 9000 UK jobs and …
Jordan has been operating a “pioneering” processing plant to recover yellowcake from uranium ores since the start of the year, the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Commission has announced. Khaled Toukan’s remarks were reported by state news agency Petra and shared by the Jordanian Uranium Mining Company (JUMCO), operator of the plant. JUMCO, which …
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is teaming up with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and providing USD5.8 million in funding for a project to demonstrate how three construction technologies from other industries can be applied to advanced reactor designs, to improve the economics of bringing advanced reactors to market. The Advanced Construction Technology (ACT) …
Kazatomprom plans to maintain 2023 uranium production at a similar level to 2022, which it says would remove up to 5,000 tU from anticipated global primary supply. The Kazakh company also said its sale of a 49% share of Ortalyk LLP to a subsidiary of China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGNP) will now be completed …
The U.S. nuclear power regulator has approved production of uranium fuel that is far more enriched than fuel for conventional nuclear power plants, the company aiming to make the material said on Monday. The fuel is known as high-assay, low-enriched uranium, or HALEU. Nonproliferation experts are concerned about the fuel as it is easier to …
