A ceremony has been held to mark the loading of the first fuel into unit 4 at South Korea’s Shin Kori nuclear power plant. The country’s nuclear regulator gave Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) permission to start up the APR1400 unit on 1 February. The event, on 7 February, marked the loading of the …
THE uranium market was turning around and this time it was for real after being depressed for the past decade during which price recoveries were predicted on several occasions but never materialised. That was the view from a panel discussion on uranium held at the Investing in African Mining Indaba taking place in Cape Town. …
EXCLUSIVE TO SIGHTLINE U3O8: Any time a commodity price heads towards a high note, we see an abundance of newly minted exploration companies and newly identified projects of great prospect. In the absence of a defined resource, exploration companies must raise financing on a demonstration of superior talent, superior technology and superior indications of a …
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 …
