The Kazakh uranium miner produced 7.6 million pounds of U3O8 in the December quarter, taking its full-year attributable production to 29.8Mlb, a 7% fall year-on-year and in line with its plan to keep 20% below permitted output. Kazatomprom’s London listing means it now has to put out quarterly total and attributable production numbers, although the …
Insights into the 2019 Uranium forecast by the leading CEO’s in the space: Amir Adnani (Uranium Energy Corp), Jeff Klenda (Ur-Energy), Dev Randhawa (Fission Uranium) and David Cates (Denison Mines). Moderated by Marin Karusa at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference 2019.
Bill Gates is no stranger to Washington. His foundation has a big office here. And last March he met with President Trump and talked about preventing disease and spreading vaccines. Recently Gates visited some key members of Congress. This time he was talking about what he sees as a key part of the answer …
Mike Alkin, Chief Invesment Officer and Founder of Sachem Cove Partners speaking at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference on why Uranium is the best risk/reward he’s ever seen in his career, and why he’s doubling down on that plus then some now because the asymmetry in the risk/reward is just ridiculous
TVEL, the fuel manufacturer subsidiary of Russia’s Rosatom, has signed a contract with India’s Department of Atomic Energy for supplies of uranium fuel pellets for the Tarapur boiling water reactors (BWRs). A key component of nuclear fuel, a pellet consists of pressed-powder uranium dioxide that has previously been enriched with the U-235 isotope. Such fuel …
The focus on tackling the electricity supply deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa has been on renewable energy over the last decade. In particular, the potential of solar and wind energy has been most loudly heralded as the solutions for the hundreds of millions of Africans without access to any electricity. The ability to use innovative, off-grid …
Kazakhstan exported 14,200 tons of uranium in January-September 2018, which in money amounted to $699.1 million, Trend reports referring to EnergyProm.kz. Thus, uranium exports in physical terms decreased by 18.8 percent, and in money by 17 percent year-on-year due to a decrease in demand in the market of uranium products. The largest supplies of uranium …
Five countries have submitted their requests for the establishment of two nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia on the Arabian Gulf coast. The bid was made after the peaceful Saudi nuclear project met the requirements of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The oil-rich Kingdom launched a tender to define specifications of sites that will host …
China’s nuclear power generation increased in 2018 as the country installed more reactor units, official data showed. Altogether 294.4 billion kWh of nuclear power was generated last year, up 18.6 percent year on year, according to the China Electricity Council (CEC). It accounted for 4.2 percent of the country’s overall electricity generation, saving 90 million …
The Japanese firm Hitachi has shelved a planned new nuclear plant at the Wylfa site on Anglesey in Wales, leaving a large hole in the UK government’s climate and energy strategy. The news comes just months after the planned Moorside plant in Cumbria was scrapped by Toshiba, another Japanese conglomerate. Hitachi’s UK subsidiary, Horizon, has also suspended …
