In the weeks ahead, President Trump will make a final decision on how to revive the all-but-dormant American uranium industry. The expected plan would create a reserve of about 10 million pounds per year of domestically mined uranium and stored in a “Federal Uranium Security Stockpile.” One option on the table is for the Department …
Fingers crossed, the decades-long ambition to have Turkey’s first nuclear energy capability (at least one of the planned four nuclear reactors) is finally to become a reality by 2023 thanks to the Mersin Akkuyu project, developed jointly with Russia’s Rosatom.Turkey has a long-standing dream of going nuclear since the 1960s, having ventured five different attempts, …
Our sources are telling us that President Trump is nearing a decision on how to revive the all-but-dormant American uranium industry. This proposed plan would create a reserve of domestically-mined uranium and stored in a “Federal Uranium Security Stockpile.” One option on the table is for the Department of Defense to purchase uranium through the …
The Union Minister of State (MoS) for Atomic Energy and Space, Jitendra Singh, stated in Parliament yesterday that a contract was signed with JSC NAC Kazatomprom, Kazakhstan on 8 July 2015 for procurement of 5,000 MT of Uranium Ore Concentrate (UOC) spread over a period of 5 years during 2015 to 2019 at an indicative …
A new generation of reactors will start producing power in the next few years. They’re comparatively tiny—and may be key to hitting our climate goals. For the last 20 years, the future of nuclear power has stood in a high bay laboratory tucked away on the Oregon State University campus in the western part of the state. …
The federal government could ramp up spending on domestically produced uranium, based on a recommendation from a working group created by President Donald Trump. That recommendation has not been made public, but sources familiar with the report told Bloomberg News it directs the federal government to add new domestic uranium to its stockpile. If the president acts …
On December 10, 2019, a delegation of the Ministry of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation of the Republic of the Congo headed by Minister M. P. E. Cussu-Mawungu arrived to Moscow by an invitation of Director General of ROSATOM Alexey Likhachev. The Congolese delegation was familiarized with capabilities and competences of the Russian nuclear industry …
During the Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha, Union minister for Atomic Energy Jitendra Singh said there are presently nine reactors under construction and pre-project activities are in progress at the 12 reactors accorded sanction. New Delhi: The government has given administrative and financial sanction for 12 new reactors with a capacity of 9000 megawatt …
Nearly half of all respondents to an Yle poll said they consider nuclear power to be a sustainable form of energy in efforts to curb climate change. Nuclear energy was considered viable by 48 percent and non-viable as a safe way to battle global warming by 35 percent; the rest, 17 percent, said they didn’t …
The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) is looking into building four nuclear reactors. “We consider it advisable that we install two more reactors at the Laguna Verde nuclear power plant [in Veracruz] and two on the Pacific coast,” CFE thermoelectric generation coordinator Héctor López Villareal told a press conference. The cost of each 1,400-megawatt (MW) reactor, with …
