The dome has been installed upon the containment building of unit 6 at the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant in China’s Liaoning province. The milestone marks the end of major civil engineering works at the unit. The operation to install the containment dome – measuring 37 metres in diameter and 11m in height and weighing about …
Kazakh uranium producer KazAtomProm and Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear fuel and power generation. The MOU was signed in Astana on 5 September by Galymzhan Pirmatov, CEO of KazAtomProm and Mohamed Al Hammadi, CEO of Enec. The MOU covers the supply …
VANCOUVER, Sept. 11, 2017 /CNW/ – NexGen Energy Ltd. (“NexGen” or the “Company“) (TSX:NXE, NYSE:NXE) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement“) with Rainmaker Resources Ltd. and Eagle Trail Properties Inc. (collectively, the “Vendors“) to acquire the Vendors’ collective 40% interest in the Dufferin Lake property (the “Property“). Upon …
Nuclear power is gaining popularity as the world tries to meet increased demand for electricityfrom non-carbon sources. Nuclear power is a result of heat generated through the fission process of atoms. The most common fuel used in conventional nuclear fission power stations is uranium, a silvery-white radioactive metal in the actinide series of the periodic …
LITTLETON, Colo., Sept. 7, 2017 /CNW/ — Ur-Energy Inc. (NYSE American:URG, TSX:URE) (the “Company” or “Ur-Energy”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Kathy E. Walker to its Board of Directors (the “Board”). The appointment is effective September 7, 2017, and expands the size of the Board to seven. Ms. Walker is the president and chief executive officer of Elm Street Resources …
Two separate innovative nuclear fuels are closer to deployment thanks to agreements signed yesterday. Lightbridge Corporation and Areva NP signed a binding agreement to set up a joint venture to develop, manufacture and commercialise Lightbridge’s advanced metallic fuel technology, while a memorandum of understanding between X-energy and Centrus Energy will see the companies work toward …
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the utility responsible for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and its March 2011 triple meltdown, is aiming to get the reactors at its other power plants back on line. The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), which must approve any restarts, had been holding to a very strict line on TEPCO …
French power output from nuclear plants registered its biggest monthly gain so far this year, up 6% from August last year, reducing its deficit so far this year to just 2% with nuclear operator EDF maintaining its target of on year production gains for 2017, an analysis of monthly production data from French TSO RTE …
KELOWNA, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – Sept. 7, 2017) – FISSION URANIUM CORP.(TSX:FCU)(OTCQX:FCUUF)(FRANKFURT:2FU) (“Fission” or “the Company“) is pleased to announce the assay results from four holes on the new, land-based, R1515W zone, where drilling has intersected the widest, high-grade mineralization outside of the Triple R Deposit at its’ PLS property in Canada’s Athabasca Basin region. Of particular note …
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech government should decide early next year how to build and fund new nuclear reactors to replace coal-fired and nuclear units that will shut down over the next two decades, the country’s special envoy for nuclear energy said. Options include utility CEZ, which is 70 percent state owned, making the investment …
