Argentina gave the final go-ahead to build two hydroelectric dams in southern Patagonia, as a province in that area said it was dropping plans to build a nuclear power plant due to community resistance. First announced in 2015, the dams to be built on the Santa Cruz River were put on hold by President Mauricio …
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Aug. 30, 2017) – Denison Mines Corp. (“Denison” or the “Company”) (TSX:DML)(NYSE MKT:DNN)(NYSE American:DNN) is pleased to report the intersection of new high-grade unconformity-hosted uranium mineralization in drill hole WR-689D3 approximately 250 metres along strike to the northeast and 200 metres up-dip of the Gryphon deposit, on the Company’s 60% owned Wheeler River …
Oman’s sovereign wealth fund has agreed to invest up to $120m in miner Berkeley Energia to help it finish construction of a uranium mine in Spain. The injection gives the fund the option to own around 37 per cent of the company, which is developing the Salamanca uranium mine, about three hours west of Madrid. …
The long-halted operation of the Genkai Nuclear Power Plant’s No. 3 reactor is planned for restart in January of next year, and for a shift to commercial operation the following month, plant operator Kyushu Electric Power Co. announced on Aug. 28. If and when the reactivation of the No. 3 reactor takes place, it will …
A 1,000 MW atomic power unit at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project restarted after being shut down on April 13 for maintenance and refuelling CHENNAI: The first 1,000 MW atomic power unit at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) restarted generation after completion of refuelling today, said an official. “The first 1,000 MW atomic power …
ASTANA. KAZINFORM President Nursultan Nazarbayev has opened the building of the IAEA Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) Bank in Kazakhstan during a teleconference, Kazinform correspondent reports. The Head of State handed over a symbolic key to the LEU Bank building to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano. “It is a high …
A Dutch energy company has just embarked on a series of experiments testing the use of molten thorium salts in producing power from nuclear fission, the first of their kind since the early 1970s. It’s still early days, but the use to thorium as an alternative to uranium could provide a cleaner, safer fuel source …
Vancouver, BC – Skyharbour Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: SYH) (OTCQB: SYHBF) (Frankfurt: SC1P) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce it has commenced its summer 2017 drill program at its flagship 35,705 hectare Moore Uranium Project, located approx. 15 kilometres east of Denison Mine’s Wheeler River project and near regional infrastructure on the southeast side of the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan. The Company is planning …
Russian President Vladimir Putin says work on expanding Hungary’s only nuclear power plant may begin early next year. “Work at the [Paks] construction site may start already at the beginning of the next year,” Putin told Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on August 28 during a visit to Hungary’s capital, Budapest. During a visit to …
French President Emmanuel Macron’s election campaign included a promise to cut nuclear power generation from 72% to 50% by 2025. But reports now suggest that this goal may be impossible to deliver on schedule. Why has reducing reliance on nuclear become so important in France, and what might this promise, if it can be delivered, …