Cabinet members prepare to sit before a meeting on July 3. They approved the revised Basic Energy Plan during the meeting. (Takeshi Iwashita) A new wave of nuclear reactor restarts became more likely as the government approved the new Basic Energy Plan on July 3, confirming that nuclear power will remain a key component of …
Beijing-run giant seeks 49% holding in eight plants. The Chinese government is in early-stage talks to buy a big minority stake in Britain’s fleet of nuclear power stations, The Sunday Times can reveal. China General Nuclear (CGN), the country’s state-run nuclear giant, is understood to have made an approach about acquiring a share of up …
Yellow Cake, a specialist company operating in the uranium sector with a view to hold long term physical uranium ( “U3O8“), is pleased to announce that following the placing and subscription of approximately 76 million ordinary shares (the “Offering”) and admission to the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (the “Admission” together with the …
NexGen Energy Ltd. (“NexGen” or the “Company”) (TSX:NXE, NYSE MKT:NXE) is pleased to report assay results for all fifty-four holes from our recently concluded winter drilling program on our 100% owned, Rook I property, in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan. Assays have confirmed uranium mineralization was intersected in areas representing significant step outs to the northeast and northwest …
The board of uranium explorer Vimy Resources has given its members a haircut and slashed executive pay just months after wrapping up a feasibility study on the company’s flagship Mulga Rock project, 240km north-west of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. Non-executive directors will take a 10 per cent pay cut from this financial year. Meanwhile executive remuneration could also …
The Nuclear Regulation Authority approved safety measures at the only nuclear plant in the Tokyo metropolitan area, but questions remain on whether its aging reactor can restart and if its operator will survive. At a July 4 meeting, the NRA concluded that Japan Atomic Power Co.’s measures to protect the Tokai No. 2 nuclear plant …
Safer reactors designed in the U.S. and Europe make their power grid debuts in China Nine years after construction began at China’s Sanmen nuclear power plant, the world’s first AP1000 unit has connected to the grid. Call it the world’s slowest photo finish. After several decades of engineering, construction flaws and delays, and cost overruns—a …
The Bacchus Securities-based pure uranium play raised £150 million (US$200 million) in its float on AIM this week. The pitch to investors is there is only upside in the energy mineral price now with major producers like Cameco cutting production to improve their margins, which have been slim-to-negative for several years. Yellow Cake has managed …
The uranium trader is using the money raised to buy up 8.1mln pounds of the radioactive metal, which it believes is “fundamentally mispriced” Uranium trader Yellow Cake PLC (LON:YCA) has made its debut on AIM this morning (Thursday July 5). Yellow Cake – a nickname for uranium – is backed by Bacchus Capital, the corporate finance boutique …
AZARGA URANIUM CORP. (TSX:AZZ, FRA: P8AA, OTCMKTS: PWURF) (“Azarga Uranium”) and URZ ENERGY CORP. (TSX-V: URZ, OTCQB: URZZF) (“URZ Energy”) are pleased to announce the completion of the previously announced merger between the two companies. Azarga Uranium has acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of URZ Energy for consideration of 2.0 Azarga Uranium …
