V.FUU: Announces Planned Four-for-One Share Consolidation

KELOWNA, British Columbia, March 22, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Fission 3.0 Corp. (“Fission 3” or the “Company”) announces that its board of directors has approved a consolidation (the “Consolidation”) of the common shares in the capital of the Company (the “Common Shares”) at a ratio of four pre-Consolidation Common Shares (the “Existing Shares”) for one post-Consolidation Common …

U.S. lawmakers launch bill bolstering nuclear proliferation safeguards

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill on Wednesday to ensure that countries striking deals with Washington on sharing nuclear power technology abandon fuel-making activities that could be altered to make material for nuclear weapons. U.S. Representatives Ilea Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican, and Brad Sherman, a Democrat, introduced the bill as officials from Saudi Arabia …

V.PLU: 152 m drilled intersection of high-grade Lithium at 0.70% Li2O, within broader 196 m interval of 0.63% Li2O as well as surface uranium mineralization from Platform 8 

TORONTO, ONTARIO — (GlobeNewswire – March 22, 2018) – Plateau Energy Metals Inc. (“Plateau” “PLU” or the “Company“)(TSX VENTURE:PLU)(FRANKFURT:QG1)(OTCQB:PLUUF), a lithium and uranium development company, is pleased to announce results from recently completed inclined and vertical drill holes from Platform 8, collared ~200 m NW of Platform 1 and ~250 m SW of Platform 4 , …

China launches new uranium enrichment centrifuges

China has completed a “large-scale demonstration project for a new generation of uranium enrichment centrifuges”, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced yesterday. The new centrifuges have now been put into production at the Hanzhun fuel facility in Shaanxi province. The project was independently researched and developed by CNNC and has its own independent intellectual property …

World’s oldest nuclear reactor comes back online

The primary reactor at Switzerland’s Beznau nuclear power plant, the world’s oldest commercial nuclear plant, has reopened after three years of repairs, despite protests from environmental campaigners, a statement said on Tuesday. Beznau, located in the northern Swiss canton of Aargau near the German border, has two reactors and first opened in 1969. Both reactors were …

Rosatom Still Committed to 2023 Startup for Turkey’s First Nuclear Plant

Rosatom in a March 21 statement said changes to the ownership group involved with Turkey’s first nuclear power plant should not further delay construction of the facility, which has struggled with setbacks since the Russian nuclear corporation was awarded the construction contract in 2010. The Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (Figure 1) is a planned 4,800-MW …