The leaching circuit at the McClean Lake mill. Credit: Orano Canada French nuclear fuels company Orano is looking to increase output of uranium from new mines in Mongolia and elsewhere to meet rising demand from the nuclear power industry and offset production from its stalled projects in Niger, said CEO Nicolas Maes. State-owned Orano has …
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) in Kudankulam, India on Thursday, March 21, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Indian state power company NTPC is looking to build 30 gigawatts (GW) of nuclear power capacity over the next two decades, three sources said. “NTPC plans to lead India’s nuclear power plan just as it …
Ukraine has launched the mass assembly of nuclear fuel while planning the expansion of Khmelnytskyi NPP with American Westinghouse technology We are currently preparing a project to expand our NPP with the involvement of American business. This project will strengthen energy security not only of Ukraine but of the entire European region” — President of …
The Spanish Congress session on 12 February (Image: www.congreso.es) The Plenary Session of the Spanish Congress has approved a proposal calling for the government to implement a series of measures that would reverse the country’s decision to phase out nuclear power. Under current plans, Spain’s power reactors are all scheduled to shut by 2035. The …
Welding has been completed of the upper half of the VVER-1200 reactor vessel for El Dabaa nuclear power plant’s second unit, with Rosatom saying that new materials and welding technologies can help increase the service life of reactors to 100 years. (Image: Rosatom) The welding, at the Atommash production site in Russia, lasted for 20 …
TerraPower, a nuclear innovation company, announced today the selection of three supplier awards to support its first Natrium plant. These awards complete the procurement selection for long lead items for the United States’ first commercial advanced nuclear power plant. The Natrium Reactor Demonstration Project is currently under construction in Kemmerer, Wyoming, and is the first …
As the U.S. makes a U-turn on premature nuclear closures with plans to restart both Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania and Palisades in Michigan, Spain is sticking to the less than ideal model pioneered by the German nuclear phaseout: close the plants now and worry about grid reliability later. Spain has seven nuclear reactors currently operating. Spain’s misguided nuclear phaseout …
India wants more nuclear power, has pledged over $2 billion toward research and will change laws to boost investment to do it. The pledges were made by India’s finance minister earlier this month as part of a plan to expand electricity generation and reduce emissions. Nuclear power is a way to make electricity that doesn’t …
Germany’s nuclear exit was meant to be final. But with energy costs soaring, conservatives are reopening the debate. Only two years after Germany switched off its last reactor, the country’s nuclear debate is back with a vengeance, with the conservative Christian Democrats leading the charge to revive atomic power ahead of an election they are …
BHP says it can double copper production in Australia without increasing the volume of uranium that comes from the same mines, hosing down investor fears that a multibillion-dollar expansion of Olympic Dam would create a flood of unwanted supply. BHP made that disclosure in the paperwork submitted to authorities as part of the proposal to …
