CENTENNIAL, Colo., March 26, 2018 - Westwater Resources, Inc. (Nasdaq: WWR) ("WWR" or "Westwater") is pleased to announce that, on March 23, 2018, the Supreme Court of the State of Texas issued a unanimous (8-0) decision favorable to Westwater in its long-running lawsuit between a Westwater subsidiary, URI, Inc., and Kleberg County, Texas. The lawsuit involved a post-mining restoration standard,...Read More
Both houses of the US Congress have approved an omnibus appropriations bill including USD1.2 billion for nuclear energy. The bill will see the suspension of sales by the Department of Energy (DOE) of surplus uranium to pay for decommissioning work at the former Portsmouth uranium enrichment plant.Senators today approved the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2018, which appropriates some $1.3 trillio...Read More
Kyushu Electric Power Company today began the process of restarting operation of unit 3 at its Genkai nuclear power plant in Japan's Saga prefecture. The reactor is scheduled to resume commercial operation next month.The four-unit Genkai plant (Image: Kyushu)The utility said the process of extracting the control rods from the 1180 MWe pressurised water reactor (PWR) was restarted at 11.00am today....Read More
Unmanned aerial system technology is being developed to fly into the containment vessels of the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan to assess their condition. Tokyo Electric Power Company contracted the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) of the USA to carry out the work.The greatest challenge in decommissioning the plant will be removing the fuel debris from the...Read More
Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions - the largest source of man-made greenhouse gas emissions - increased 1.4% in 2017 to reach a historic high of 32.5 billion tonnes, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has announced. The increase followed three consecutive years of emissions remaining flat.Global energy-related CO2 emissions, 2000-2017 (Image: IEA)The increase in carbon emissions "w...Read More
Asia needs nuclear energy to meet its economic, energy and environmental goals, but such plans are still in the development phase in the South East region of the continent, Agneta Rising, director general of World Nuclear Association, said today. Addressing delegates at the Sustainable Energy Technology Asia 2018 conference in Bangkok, Thailand, Rising noted that nuclear power generation is growin...Read More
China has completed a "large-scale demonstration project for a new generation of uranium enrichment centrifuges", China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced yesterday. The new centrifuges have now been put into production at the Hanzhun fuel facility in Shaanxi province.Operators of the demonstration centrifuge project (Image: CNNC)The project was independently researched and developed by...Read More
Mining companies operating in South Africa, including Anglo American (LON:AAL) and Sibanye Gold (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL), may soon have to increase their black-owned stakes to 30%, from a previous 26%, but the government is promising to deliver "policy certainty" in return.Newly appointed Minister of Mineral Resources Gwede Mantashe said the key to regain investors and miners confidence in the South...Read More
Energy Fuels Inc (TSE:EFR, NYSE:UUUU) shares nudged higher as it today outlined "bridges" of opportunity to increase primary production from its US uranium mines as market conditions improve.In a letter to shareholders, new president and chief Mark S. Chalmers, pointed out that the group has a portfolio that is unmatched in the US uranium industry in terms of production scalability, licensed and p...Read More
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for the design and construction of a CAD370 million (USD283 million) laboratory research complex that will be the largest single capital investment in the CAD1.2 billion revitalisation of its Chalk River site.The ANMRC is central to CNL's vision for Chalk River (Image: CNL)The Advanced Nuclear Materials Research Centre (A...Read More
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission has identified areas for improvement in the operation and maintenance of Uzbekistan's only operating research reactor. The team also addressed specific operational challenges faced by the WWR-SM.The WWR-SM research reactor (Image: Institute of Nuclear Physics)To help Member States optimize the availability, reliability and the application of hum...Read More
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - March 16, 2018) - Denison Mines Corp. ("Denison" or the "Company") (TSX:DML)(NYSE MKT:DNN)(NYSE American:DNN) today announces that it filed a technical report under Canadian Securities Administrators' National Instrument 43-101 Standard of Disclosure for Mineral Projects for its 63.3% owned Wheeler River Project in Saskatchewan titled "Technical Report with an Upda...Read More
The IAEA has released its annual edition of the Country Nuclear Power Profiles (CNPP), documenting the status and development of nuclear power programmes worldwide as of the end of 2017.The publication summarizes organizational and industrial aspects of nuclear power programmes, including information about relevant legislative, regulatory and international framework, in 50 countries, including 30...Read More
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and other major utilities will start talks this spring on jointly building and operating a nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan, sources close to the matter said Friday.The plan involves Tepco’s Higashidori nuclear power plant in Aomori Prefecture, the construction of which was suspended following meltdowns at the firm’s Fukushima No. 1 p...Read More
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano commended efforts by Pakistan to increase nuclear safety and security as the country works to triple its nuclear power capacity. Mr Amano was also briefed on the use of nuclear technology in health care and agriculture. Mr Amano was in Pakistan on 12-14 March.In Karachi, at the site of the KANUPP nuclear power plant, Mr Amano observed work on the construction of...Read More
Pakistan is ready to strengthen its relationship with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the country's prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, told IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano this week. Amano commended Pakistan's efforts to increase nuclear safety and security. Prime Minister Abbasi, on the right, receives Yukiya Amano on 12 March (Image: PMO)According to the Prime Minister's Off...Read More
First Light Fusion (FLF) is investing GBP3.6 million (USD5.0 million) building what it says will be the only pulsed power machine of its scale in the world dedicated to researching fusion energy. The Oxford, England-based company said on 12 March it expects to commission the device - Machine 3 - by the end of this year.A rendering of Machine 3 (Image: First Light Fusion)FLF aims to achieve 'gain'...Read More
Anfield Energy Inc has agreed to acquire the Charlie in-situ leach (ISL) uranium project in Wyoming from Cotter Corp, as part of a strategy to create a mine and mill production complex in the state. Meanwhile, Energy Fuels Inc is pursuing opportunities to process new and additional alternate feed sources in order to allow the USA's only operating conventional uranium mill to extend its current ope...Read More
Orano USA and Waste Control Specialists (WCS) plan to form a joint venture to license a consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) for used nuclear fuel at the WCS site in Andrews County, Texas. The joint venture will request that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission resume its review of the CISF licence application WCS originally submitted two years ago.How the CISF could look (Image: WCS)In a sta...Read More
Ontario's Bruce Power has partnered with the Council of the Great Lakes Region (CGLR) to conduct a three-year study of the impact of climate change on the region. The study will investigate the impacts on the region's ecosystems as well as corporate action to tackle climate change locally and regionally.Bruce Power's Ontario site (Image: Bruce Power)The Great Lakes Region includes the Canadian pr...Read More