TOKYO, July 21 (Reuters) – A court in western Japan on Friday denied an injunction against Shikoku Electric Power Co’s Ikata No. 3 nuclear reactor, the operator said,allowing the plant that restarted last August to continue operations. The ruling by the Matsuyama District Court is in line with several other recent decisions after residents concerned …
Tie-up to ensure energy security and clean power The landmark India-Japan civil nuclear agreement came into force on Thursday. Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar exchanged the diplomatic notes with the Japanese envoy to India to formalise the completion of the process. “The India-Japan Agreement for Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy entered into force …
Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. has released the results of a ground gravity survey conducted at its 100-per-cent-owned Umfreville project in the northeastern area of Canada’s Athabasca basin in Northern Saskatchewan. “We believe that newly identified gravity lows represent areas of hydrothermal alteration that are associated with previously interpreted faulting and a strong uranium-in-soil anomaly,” said …
The China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) is interested in participating in the conclusion of construction of Brazil’s Angra 3 nuclear power plant which have been halted since 2015, daily newspaper O Globo reported. According to the Brazilian newspaper, 70% of the Angra 3 nuclear power plant is completed, requiring an investment of US$13 billion so …
Three years after signing a civilian nuclear supply treaty, the Federal Government confirmed overnight the first shipment of Australian uranium has left for India.Foreign Minister Julie Bishop provided little detail about the inaugural sale, saying only that it was subject to commercial negotiations.The supply deal with India, signed in 2014, is the first of its …
Since the November 2012 discovery of a new high-grade uranium deposit just outside the south-western corner of Saskatchewan’s famed Athabasca basin, where the world’s highest-grade uranium mines are found, explorer Fission Uranium has succeeded in stringing together new uranium discoveries “like pearls on a necklace”. The TSX-listed company’s Patterson Lake South (PLS) project now stretches some 3.17 km over an …
The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation is developing the plant through the UAE Peaceful Nuclear Energy Programme. The Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant project – the first nuclear energy power station to be constructed in the Middle East – is up to 81 per cent complete, officials said on Monday. The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation is developing …
Unit 4 of the Fuqing nuclear power plant in China’s Fujian province achieved a sustained chain reaction for the first time on 16 July, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced yesterday. The unit is expected to enter commercial operation later this year. Operators in Fuqing 4’s control room (Image: CNNC)Following inspections of the unit, China’s …
China National Nuclear Corp, one of the country’s largest nuclear companies, is one step closer to exporting its high-temperature gas cooled reactor projects to countries including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, with its HTGR fuel assembly line entering mass production. The world’s first production line for HTGR fuel elements started mass production on …
Sprawling across northern Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Athabasca Basin is home to some of the world’s richest uranium deposits, which were discovered in the 1940s and mined since the late 1960s. What is less clear, however — and what Geological Survey of Canada geophysicist Vicki Tschirhart hopes to discover this summer — is the western …
