Low-cost nuclear reactor barrier could withstand Chernobyl or Fukushima

Researchers suggest a new type of safety barrier for nuclear reactors, which could have prevented the disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima, could reduce the probability of core melt to that of a large meteorite hitting the site. Following the most notorious accidents in the history of nuclear energy at Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986) …

Greenhouse gas concentrations in atmosphere reach yet another high

Another year, another record Geneva, 25 November 2019 – Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to the World Meteorological Organization. This continuing long-term trend means that future generations will be confronted with increasingly severe impacts of climate change, including rising temperatures, more extreme weather, water stress, …

CNNC powers China-Namibia relations

  Namibian President Hage Geingob said that the Rossing Uranium Mine — operated and managed by the China National Nuclear Corporation, or CNNC — is one of the important projects in China-Namibia cooperation. The President, speaking during a recent meeting with Chinese officials, said Namibia welcomes more investment from Chinese companies in infrastructure, mining and …

T.NXE releases second batch of assay results from 2019 Feasibility stage drilling program

NexGen Energy Ltd. (“NexGen” or the “Company”) (TSX: NXE, NYSE MKT: NXE) is pleased to report assay results for an additional twenty holes from the Company’s recently completed Feasibility-stage drilling program at the 100% owned, Rook I property in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan. The 2019 drilling program targeted the A2 and A3 High-Grade Domains for the …

T.DML Announces CAD$4.1 Million Bought Deal Private Placement of Flow-Through Shares

Denison Mines Corp. (“Denison” or the “Company”) (DML: TSX; DNN: NYSE American) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Cantor Fitzgerald Canada Corporation as a sole bookrunner and lead underwriter, on behalf of a syndicate of underwriters (together, the “Underwriters”), under which the Underwriters have agreed to purchase, on a “bought …

V.SYH announces private placement of hard and flow-through units

Skyharbour Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: SYH) (OTCQB: SYHBF) (Frankfurt: SC1P) (the “Company”) announces that it has arranged a non-brokered private placement of up to 4,000,000 units of the Company (the “Units”) at a price of CAD $0.15 per Unit and up to 3,333,333 flow-through units (the “FT Units”) at a price of CAD $0.18 per FT Unit, for …