Russia remained the top supplier of nuclear reactor fuel to the US last year, even after a ban on enriched uranium imports from the country became law in May, data from the Department of Energy shows. Russia provided 20% of the enriched uranium used in America’s fleet of commercial reactors, down from nearly 27% in 2023, according a Tuesday …
Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. (TSXV: PTU) (OTCQB: PTUUF) (“Purepoint” or the “Company”) today announced the launch of its inaugural drill program at the 100%-owned Tabbernor Project, located on the southeastern edge of Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin. The 1,500-metre program will test five drill targets distributed across two of the three high-priority areas defined within a 60-kilometre-long corridor of graphitic conductors. …
Finland’s Minister of Climate and the Environment, Sari Multala, urged the EU to extend its plan to phase out Russian oil and gas to include the nuclear energy sector, according to her interview with the Austrian newspaper Die Presse. “There are two operators of nuclear power plants in Finland. One no longer uses Russian uranium, and …
Soaring demand for electricity will drive a $350 billion nuclear spending boom in the US, boosting output from reactors by 63% by 2050. The investment will add 53 gigawatts of reactor capacity, bringing the total nuclear fleet to 159 gigawatts, driven by power-hungry data centers running artificial intelligence systems. The expansion will primarily use small …
The New Nuclear Age: Why the World Is Rethinking Atomic Power After decades of underinvestment, a convergence of generational technological breakthroughs, intensifying geopolitical competition, and the need for clean, dense, reliable power are positioning nuclear energy for a renaissance. Executive Summary Throughout history, the commercialization of new forms of energy has given rise to fossil …
The scramble to build new reactors to supply power to AI data centers may include plutonium from the nation’s nuclear deterrent. The Trump administration is considering a proposal to divert plutonium that plays a central role in the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile to fuel a new generation of power plants, according to an Energy Department …
During World Nuclear Week in Moscow, Uzbekistan and Russia signed two pivotal agreements, marking significant progress toward the construction of Uzbekistan’s first nuclear power plant (NPP). The first agreement, a Supplementary Agreement on Implementation Terms, expands on a prior June 20, 2025 accord between Rosatom Energy Projects JSC and Uzbekistan’s State Enterprise “Directorate for NPP …
Russia and Ethiopia signed a document on Thursday calling for the planning and construction of a nuclear power plant in the east African country, RIA news agency quoted Rosatom, the state-owned Russian nuclear corporation, as saying. An action plan on development and construction of the facility was signed during a nuclear power forum by the …
Rosatom has agreed to build new reactors with total capacity of 5GW in the southern Hormozgan province. Tehran and Moscow have signed a $25bn deal to build four nuclear power reactors in southern Iran, according to Iranian state media. Friday’s announcement comes as the United Nations Security Council is expected to vote on a China- and Russia-backed …
The arbitral tribunal constituted under the auspices of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in case No. ARB/25/8 rendered a new decision on September 23, 2025, in favor of Orano in the dispute opposing it to the State of Niger concerning the uranium mine of SOMAÏR. In its decision, the arbitral tribunal …