Guardian.co.uk reports on new nuclear technology and its benefits to developing nations. In a study published in Science this month (12 August) British researchers outlined a vision for flexible and more user-friendly nuclear technologies, as worries over the climate change, energy supply security, and depletion of fossil fuels, are overturning decades of hesitancy over the [...]
People’s Daily Online reports on nuclear power capacity for China to increase tremendously in the next decade. The official said that under an initial estimate, China’s scale of nuclear power should reach at least 75 million kilowatts in order to achieve the target by 2020, while currently, China’s nuclear power installed capacity is only 9 [...]
AP reports Areva says its net profit soared despite new EPR charge. Areva, which also mines uranium and produces nuclear fuel in addition to designing and building reactors and recycling nuclear waste, also booked hundreds of millions of euros in new charges for delays in building the first of its new EPR reactors for a power [...]
World Nuclear News reports the debate of India’s liabilty is in discussion again. The Indian parliamentary committee studying the implications of Nuclear Civil Liability Bill will submit its report to the upper house of the parliament in the monsoon session starting next week. For complete story, click here.
The DailyReckoning reports though uranium prices are slightly lower, China buys its major uranium supplies from the uranium giant, Cameco Corp. On June 24, China agreed to buy more than 10,000 tons of uranium oxide – yellowcake – over 10 years from Cameco.According to Thomas Neff, a physicist and uranium industry analyst at the Massachusetts [...]
The Daily Reckoning reports on investing in the uranium markets. One of the best investments we can make right now is to buy into supplies of relatively secure, low-cost uranium – the feedstock for nuclear reactors. The simple story is that the uranium supply trails far behind demand. The added wrinkle is that supply cannot [...]
Bloomberg Businessweek reports uranium prices might rebound with the recent uranium purchases from Cameco by China. The nation may purchase about 5,000 metric tons this year, more than twice as much as it consumes, building stockpiles for new reactors, according to Thomas Neff, a physicist and uranium- industry analyst at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in [...]
POC.net reports on nuclear energy and how green is it. It may seem mundane that just like in coal-fired power plants, nuclear power plants depend on the turning of water into steam in order to work the turbines that are connected to the generated. In essence, the nuclear material is being used as a fuel [...]
Daily Reckoning reports a bull case for uranium featuring Cameco Corp. Today, Chris Mayer, editor of the Capital & Crisis newsletter, offers an update on a notably bullish case for uranium. From Mayer’s research update: “First, we are most interested in supply, as any investor in a natural resource should be. We like commodities hard [...]
Bloomberg.com reports GE & Hitachi are interested in building nuclear-plant parts in idled Polish shipyards. Poland plans its first two nuclear plants of 3,000 megawatts each in 2020 and 2022. PGE SA, the country’s largest power group and responsible for building the units, is holding talks with GE and two other reactor makers and may pick the [...]
Tuesday, August 31, 2010