When Heather Hoff took a job at Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, she was skeptical of nuclear energy — so much so that she resolved to report anything questionable to the anti-nuclear group Mothers for Peace. Instead, after working at the plant for over a decade and asking every question she could think of about …
Nuclear fuel supplier Centrus Energy said on Monday it has received a notice from Russia’s TENEX that its government passed an order, which canceled its licence to export low-enriched uranium to the US, effective through Dec. 31, 2025. Shares of Centrus were down 4.3% at $73.14 in trading after the bell. world’s largest supplier of …
Enriched uranium needed in reactors supplying 19% of US power Russia says it’s responding to US law curbing uranium imports Russia is temporarily limiting exports of enriched uranium to the US, creating potential supply risks to utilities operating American reactors that generate almost a fifth of the country’s electricity. The Russian government didn’t provide details …
National Atomic Company “Kazatomprom” JSC (“Kazatomprom” or “the Company”) announces the voting results on each issue of the agenda of the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders (“EGM”) which took place on 15 November 2024 at 10:30 am local time (GMT+5) at the following address: floor 3, 17/12 Syganak street, Nura district, Astana, Z05T1X3, the Republic of …
Utility Entergy Corp. is in talks with some of its biggest customers about deploying small nuclear reactors as electricity demand surges from factories and artificial intelligence data centers, said Chief Executive Officer Drew Marsh. Listen to the Here’s Why podcast on Apple, Spotify or anywhere you listen. The utility, which serves a heavily industrialized portion of the …
Cold functional tests have been completed at unit 1 of the San’ao nuclear power plant in China’s Zhejiang province, China General Nuclear has announced. The unit is the first of six HPR1000s (Hualong Ones) planned at the site. Cold functional tests are carried out to confirm whether components and systems important to safety are properly …
Niger wants Russian firms to invest in uranium and other natural resource production, its mining minister said on Wednesday, amid an ongoing dispute with former colonial master France. French nuclear group Orano halted uranium output in Niger last month as relations soured with the military junta that seized power in July 2023. “We have already …
At the COP29 UN climate change conference taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, six more countries – El Salvador, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Nigeria and Turkey – have added their support for the tripling of global nuclear energy capacity by 2050. During COP28 – held in Dubai, UAE, in December last year – 25 countries backed a …
President Joe Biden’s administration is setting out plans for the US to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050, with demand climbing for the technology as a round-the-clock source of carbon-free power. President Joe Biden’s administration is setting out plans for the US to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050, with demand climbing for the technology …
“You’re going to see this kind of burst of activity that will be signing contracts that will come to reality in ’27, ’28, ’29, when we see acceleration of load growth,” said Duke Energy’s Brian Savoy. Duke Energy signed agreements in the third quarter of this year to connect 2 GW of new data centers, and anticipates …
