Ur-Energy Inc. (NYSE American: URG) (TSX: URE) (“Ur-Energy”) announced today that it intends to offer and sell its common shares and warrants to purchase its common shares in an underwritten public offering. In connection with this offering, Ur-Energy expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase additional common shares and warrants, equal to …
America used to export uranium, but now it is dependent on other countries. In order to protect ourselves, we need to increase uranium mining. When I served as Energy secretary under President George W. Bush, our administration was deeply concerned that over 50% of our oil was imported, with much of it coming from unstable …
No 1 reactor at Sanmen power plant expected to be ready for commercial operations on Friday after completing 168-hour test run. China will soon be ready to start commercial operations of the world’s first next-generation AP1000 nuclear reactor, possibly setting off a renewed push by the country into atomic power after years of delays and …
Plateau Energy Metals Inc. (“Plateau” “PLU” or the “Company”)(TSX VENTURE:PLU)(FRANKFURT:QG1)(OTCQB:PLUUF) is pleased to announce extensions to its Falchani “East” lithium deposit, the entering into of community agreements and initiation of drilling at Falchani “West”. Falchani East Extension Highlights (Figure 1 – Falchani Drill Hole Location Map with Outcrop Samples) Drilled mineralized footprint extended ~200 m to …
As Europe and the wider world begins to wake up to the need to cut emissions, Dr Kirill Komarov argues that tackling climate change will see the use of nuclear energy grow in the coming years, not as a competitor to renewables but as a competitor to coal. Dr Kirill Komarov is first deputy CEO …
Director General of the Jordanian Uranium Mining Company (JUMC) Hussein Al Laboun has said that the process of building an automated factory for producing the yellow cake from uranium mined in Jordan will be operational in 2019. In a statement cited by the Jordan News Agency, Petra, on Tuesday, Laboun pointed out that the JUMC …
GoviEx Uranium Inc. (TSXV: GXU) (OTCQB: GVXXF) (“GoviEx” or “Company”) today announced the appointment of SRK Consulting (UK) Ltd (“SRK”) and SGS Bateman (Pty) Ltd (“SGS”) as the consultants for the completion of a feasibility study for the Madaouela Project (the “Feasibility Study”). SRK and SGS were part of the team that completed the pre-feasibility …
Australia’s High Commissioner to India, Harinder Sidhu, on Tuesday expressed hope that the country would be sending a consignment of uranium to India in the “near future”. Speaking at the Australia Fest in Delhi, Mr Sidhu said, “Foreign Minister Julie Bishop was here (in India last year) and after prime minister’s visit, she had mentioned …
Financial challenges facing nuclear energy need to be tackled by disrupting the status quo to help drive down costs, delegates heard at the recent World Nuclear Association 2018 Symposium in London. Excluding nuclear energy drives up the cost of electricity in future low-carbon scenario projections, Idaho National Laboratory’s David Petti, executive director of the recently released MIT …
Last week, the House passed a bipartisan bill that originated in the Senate called the Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act (S. 97), which will allow the private sector to partner with US National Laboratories to vet advanced nuclear technologies. The bill also directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to lay the ground work for establishing …
