Japan’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports fell by 8% to 66.2 million metric tons last year to the lowest since 2009, preliminary data from the Ministry of Finance showed, following nuclear power restarts and increased use of renewable energy. As a result, last year Japan was no longer the world’s biggest LNG importer and was …
Public Service Enterprise Group’s Hope Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey. US nuclear power plants may have to make changes to their uranium sourcing if federal restrictions on US imports of Russian uranium are passed in Congress. Source: Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. A bill in the US Congress to restrict imports of Russian …
Orano Canada Inc. (“Orano Canada”), and Denison Mines Corp. (“Denison”) (TSX: DML) (NYSE American: DNN), as joint-venture partners in the McClean Lake Joint Venture (“MLJV”), are pleased to announce that the MLJV has approved a restart of uranium mining operations using the joint venture’s patented Surface Access Borehole Resource Extraction (“SABRE”) mining method. Orano Canada owns a 77.5% interest and is …
Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. (TSXV: PTU) (OTCQB: PTUUF) (“Purepoint” or the “Company”) announced today its exploration plans for 2024 with field programs at its two joint ventures and four of its 100% owned projects. All six projects reside in Canada’s Athabasca Basin, the world’s richest uranium district. “The recent news of production shortfalls out of Kazakhstan has highlighted …
Egypt and Russia’s presidents joined a ceremony by videolink to mark the pouring of the first concrete into the foundation slab of El Dabaa unit 4 – a moment which means all four units at the Egyptian nuclear power plant are now under construction. El Dabaa will be Egypt’s first nuclear power plant, and the …
Rosatom’s mining division exceeded its uranium production target by 90 tonnes in 2023, it told its annual Stakeholder Dialogue event. Meanwhile, progress is being made on new mining operations. At the Priargunskoye Industrial Mining and Chemical Union (PIMCU) – the uranium production centre in the Transbaikal/Chita region – heap leaching was used to increase the …
Those seeking selection for the engineering, construction, procurement and commissioning of a new AP1000 unit at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant site by 2035, have until 2 February to respond to an invitation for expression of interest. The initial process is for prequalification of candidates against eligibility and prequalification criteria. The shortlisted candidates will submit …
Denison Mines Corp. (“Denison”) (TSX: DML) (NYSE American: DNN) is pleased to announce the award to Wood Canada Limited (“Wood”), part of the leading global consulting and engineering firm Wood PLC, of a contract for the completion of detailed design engineering for the In-Situ Recovery (“ISR”) mining project planned for Denison’s flagship Phoenix uranium deposit (“Phoenix”). View PDF version Phoenix and the nearby …
The planned capacity of the enterprise is 800 thousand tons per year “Samruk-Kazyna” JSC, JSC “NAC “Kazatomprom”, and the Italian company Ballestra S.p.A. signed a strategic partnership agreement, QazMonitor reports, citing the press service of Samruk-Kazyna. Signed during President Tokayev’s visit to Italy, the agreement is to attract investments for the realization of the project …
IsoEnergy Ltd. (“IsoEnergy” or the “Company”) (TSXV: ISO; OTCQX: ISENF) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an amended agreement with Eight Capital, as co-lead underwriter and joint bookrunner on behalf a syndicate of underwriters (collectively, the “Underwriters”), including Haywood Securities Inc., as co-lead underwriter and joint bookrunner, pursuant to which the Underwriters will …
