Nuclear power output hits lowest level since 1980s as Britain faces cold snap

[ad_1] Tom Greatrex, chief executive of the Nuclear Industries Association, said: “Nuclear output is the lowest since 1982 because we have fewer nuclear power stations.  “We are down to 5.9…

Hedge funds stockpile uranium as price of nuclear fuel surges

[ad_1] Sean Benson, director of BNF Capital, the London-based office of the billionaire Perodo family, raised seed funding for a dedicated uranium fund known as Tees River in 2019. Since…

Sunak to scale back nuclear target in latest net zero climbdown

[ad_1] Ministers are preparing to scale back the UK’s nuclear power target in Rishi Sunak’s latest net zero climbdown. Draft versions of a new “nuclear roadmap” circulating in Whitehall suggest…

Scramble for uranium supplies on new nuclear Silk Road

[ad_1] On the same day Hinkley’s reactor building was crowned, the price of uranium jumped to $85.75 a pound on the spot market. That is the highest level since January…

Rolls-Royce in talks to build mini-nukes in Ukraine

[ad_1] Rolls-Royce is in talks with Ukraine’s biggest private power company to build a string of mini nuclear power plants in the country, The Telegraph can reveal. DTEK, which is…

COP28: emerging role of nuclear power

[ad_1] Nuclear power is a zero carbon source of energy, meaning that during its operations, no carbon is produced or released. In order to achieve climate goal of limiting the…

Claire Coutinho hands £30m to US mini-nuke project rivalling Rolls-Royce

[ad_1] Nuclear Minister Andrew Bowie said: “As the Government that revitalised the UK nuclear industry, committing public funds to nuclear for the first time in a generation, we’re rapidly expanding…

Rolls-Royce / UK SMR Company Eyes Deployment Of Reactor Fleet In Netherlands :: NucNet | The Independent Nuclear News Agency

[ad_1] Dutch construction company BAM Infra Nederland has agreed to collaborate with ULC-Energy and UK-based Rolls-Royce SMR on the deployment of a fleet of Rolls-Royce small modular reactors (SMRs) in…

Macron pursues nuclear deals in Russia’s back yard

[ad_1] PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron travels on Wednesday to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, where he hopes to secure uranium for his country’s nuclear plants. The trip comes as geopolitical…

EDITORIAL | Japan’s Energy Security in Peril as Policy Gaps Persist

[ad_1] Fifty years have passed since the outbreak of the first oil crisis. That time, the global crisis was triggered by the fourth Middle East war (Yom Kippur War) in…