HIGHLIGHTS Operator halts Civaux-1 reactor Monday for planned outage Environmental issues plague St Alban-2, runs at reduced capacity Nuclear outages boost European day-ahead power prices London — Available nuclear power generating capacity in France fell sharply by almost 9 GW after EDF delayed the return of multiple nuclear plants, while high temperatures continued to restrict …
The Greenpeace activists who crashed a Superman-styled drone into an EDF facility near Lyon, France on July 3 pulled off the latest of several stunts designed to highlight the vulnerability of France’s ageing nuclear reactors. In a country whose energy mix is built on nuclear power, the strategy is working: the Superman incident came just before a French parliamentary report called …
Installation has begun of the core catcher – a passive safety system – for unit 1 of the Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom announced. A core catcher is a device provided to catch the molten core material – corium – of a reactor in the unlikely event of a …
The public sector undertakings and industrial units of India’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) performed “exceptionally well” in 2017, DAE chairman and secretary Sekhar Basu said at celebrations marking the 71st anniversary of Indian independence on 15 August. Nuclear generator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd’s (NPCIL’s) 2017 profit of INR3367 crore (USD482 million) was …
The Board of Directors of Plateau Energy Metals Inc. (“Plateau” or the “Company“) (TSX VENTURE:PLU) (FRANKFURT:QG1) (OTCQB:PLUUF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Alex Holmes as CEO. Mr. Holmes has also been appointed to the board of directors. The appointments are subject to regulatory approval. Mr. Holmes has spent more than 15 years …
Skyharbour Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: SYH) (OTCQB: SYHBF) (Frankfurt: SC1P) (the “Company”) announces that it has granted incentive stock options (the “Options”) to certain directors, officers, management, company employees and consultants entitling them to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,500,000 common shares in the capital of the Company, subject to the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange. The Options are …
Mega Uranium Ltd. (MGA: TSX) (“Mega”) is pleased to announce that it has increased the size of its previously announced non-brokered private placement financing to up to 13,636,364 units (the “Units”), at a price of $0.11 per Unit, for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $1,500,000. All of the other terms of the financing described …
AZARGA URANIUM CORP. (TSX:AZZ) “Azarga Uranium” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that insiders and warrant holders have exercised 11,870,866 share purchase warrants, prior to their expiry on 15 August 2018, for proceeds of approximately C$2.4 million. Further, as announced on 5 July 2018, Azarga Uranium settled C$2.8 million of debt, inclusive of accrued interest, …
CEO Samruk-Kazyna welfare fund Akhmetzjan Yesimov briefed the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev on the results the fund’s activities in the first 7 months of the current year and plans for the forthcoming period. The main indicators for the first half of the year are positive. 18 assets worth KZT 42 billion ($117 million) were …
The Moon Jae-in administration’s plan to phase out nuclear power has come under question as electricity demand soars amid a scorching heat wave. To cope with the explosive power demand, the government has belatedly turned to nuclear power, announcing it will raise the number of operating nuclear plants from 14 to 19, but calls are …
