Russia is stepping up its overseas sales of nuclear power plants, with state-run nuclear energy company Rosatom agreeing in July to cooperate in building a plant in the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan and reaching an accord with China to build a plant in that country. Russia accounts for 67% of the world’s nuclear plant deals currently in development. By 2030, Rosatom aims …
The IAEA has launched a comprehensive, online interactive and integrated digital map of the world’s uranium distribution and deposits. This second edition of World Distribution of Uranium Deposits was developed with contributions from the Saskatchewan Geological Survey, the Geological Survey of South Australia and the United States Geological Survey. This edition classifies information by types …
Chugoku Electric Power Co. on Friday applied to the government for safety screening of a nuclear reactor it is constructing, opening up the possibility of it becoming Japan’s first newly built reactor to go into operation since the 2011 Fukushima crisis. Work on the No. 3 unit at the Shimane plant in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, …
An investment vehicle designed to profit from the rising price of uranium is to snap up another £8m-worth of the radioactive mineral. Yellow Cake, which raised $200m (£156m) in a successful float on the London Stock Exchange earlier this summer, said it would buy another 350,000 lb of uranium from Kazakh supplier Kazatomprom and store it …
China’s State Council said it would promote the use of China’s nuclear industry’s independent technological standards worldwide, aiming to play “a leading role” in the global standardization process by 2027. Its two major nuclear project developers, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) and the China General Nuclear Project Corporation (CGN), are jointly promoting an advanced third-generation …
Milestones in the commissioning of the AP1000s under construction at the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China’s Shandong province were met on 8 August. Unit 1 achieved first criticality, while fuel loading started at unit 2. Unit 1 of the Haiyang plant attained first criticality – a sustained chain reaction – at 10.42am yesterday, State …
Denison Mines Corp. (“Denison” or the “Company”) (DML: TSX, DNN: NYSE MKT) today filed its Consolidated Financial Statements and Management’s Discussion & Analysis (“MD&A”) for the quarter ended June 30, 2018. Both documents can be found on the Company’s website at www.denisonmines.com or on SEDAR (at www.sedar.com) and EDGAR (at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml). The highlights provided below are …
The fifth meeting of the U.S.-Japan Bilateral Commission on Civil Nuclear Cooperation (the Bilateral Commission) was held in Tokyo on August 8, 2018. Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette and Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Takeo Mori led the discussions as co-chairs. The delegations included participants representing a wide range of governmental agencies. Participants from …
Several milestones have been reached at nuclear power plant construction sites around the world including on the Leningrad II-2, Novovoronezh II-2, Barakah, and Plant Vogtle projects. Russian Progress At the Leningrad site, Rosatom—the Russian state atomic energy corporation—reported on August 7 that the main turbine equipment installation for Phase II Unit 2 was completed. The …
UEX Corporation (UEX:TSX) (“UEX” or the “Company”), is pleased to announce that it has filed a technical report on the West Bear Co-Ni Deposit (the “Technical Report”), pursuant to National Instrument 43-101 “Standards for Disclosure for Mineral Projects” (“NI-43-101”). The Technical Report supports the disclosure made by UEX in its July 10, 2018 news release …