Uranium Week: Uranium Equities Spike

As the spot uranium price has declined nearly -11% in the last month, prices for uranium shares have risen dramatically. -Key drivers of uranium equities rally -Three megatrends supporting uranium -Spot uranium slides over -7% during 2021 By Mark Woodruff A sweeping rise in the share prices of current and prospective uranium producers has drawn widespread …

Czech solution to fuel rod corrosion receives US patent

Czech scientists have received a US patent for their discovery that a polycrystalline-diamond coating can significantly protect fuel rods against corrosion during both normal reactor operation and accidents. Researchers from the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University (CTU CIIRC) and the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences …

Campaign contributions, including from a Utah operator, preceded creation of federal uranium stockpile

A $75 million fund for domestically mined uranium came after years of lobbying and campaign donations from the industry. When the latest COVID-19 relief bill was signed into law by President Donald Trump on Dec. 27, uranium companies with mines in the United States cheered. And that included a big one with operations in Utah. …

Government and industry back nuclear for green hydrogen future

Nuclear power could produce one-third of the UK’s clean hydrogen needs by 2050, according to the Hydrogen Roadmap agreed by the Nuclear Industry Council (NIC) last week. The NIC, co-chaired by the Minister for Business, Energy and Clean Growth and the Chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association, sets strategic priorities for government-industry collaboration to promote nuclear power …

T.DML Announces USD$25 Million Bought Deal Offering of Units and CAD$8 Million Bought Deal Private Placement of Flow-Through Shares

ORONTO, Feb. 11, 2021 /CNW/ – Denison Mines Corp. (“Denison” or the “Company”) (DML: TSX, DNN: NYSE American) is pleased to announce that it has entered into agreements with Cantor Fitzgerald Canada Corporation (“CFCC”) and Haywood Securities Inc. (“Haywood”), as co-lead underwriters and joint book-runners, in each case on behalf of themselves and a syndicate of …

Kazakhstan keen on tapping into NMDC mining expertise

Kazakhstan Ambassador Yerlan Alimbayev on Thursday met the top brass of NMDC to discuss ways to leverage the public sector mining major’s capabilities to further strengthen the Kazakh mining industry. A release from NMDC on the visit of the Ambassador said Mr.Alimbayev met CMD Sumit Deb, Director (Finance) Amitava Mukherjee and Director (Technical) Somnath Nandi. …