Gold Blasts Past $4,000 as Investors Flee to Safety Amid U.S. Political Turmoil

Gold prices were surging above $4,000 per ounce on Tuesday for the first time ever, as escalating political tension in the United States and renewed fears over global financial stability…

Technology licensing is landmark for US uranium remediation

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) accepted Disa’s application for a licence to use its technology to remediate abandoned mine waste at inactive mine sites in April, when the regulator…

IAEA reviews Romanian research reactor ahead of potential extension

The six-person Integrated Safety Assessment of Research Reactors (INSARR) mission took place in the first week of October. It was requested by Romania’s National Commission for Nuclear Activities Control and the Institute for…

Largest load transported along ITER itinerary

The cryostat – into which some of the D-shaped toroidal field coils as well as PF1, the smallest of the ring-shaped poloidal field coils, will be inserted – is shaped “like…

2024 US figures show increase in domestic U purchases

A total of 55.9 million pounds U3O8e (21,502 tU) of deliveries from US and foreign suppliers was purchased during 2024, at a weighted-average price of USD52.71 per pound, according to…

Microreactor to be tested in Space Ocean satellite

Under the terms of the Letter of Intent, Texas-based Space Ocean intends to test Space Nuclear Power’s (SpaceNukes’) 10-kilowatt nuclear reactor aboard its ALV-N satellite. If performance criteria are met,…

Paks II equipment supply approved, Rosatom says

Rosatom said that the issued document following the “routine supervisory audit” means “the company can supply nuclear power plant equipment as part of the Paks II NPP project, which is manufactured…

IAEA completes modernisation of its laboratories

The IAEA Seibersdorf facility, which opened in 1962, houses eight nuclear applications laboratories working in food and agriculture, human health, environmental monitoring and assessment, as well as two safeguards analytical…

COMMENTARY: Texas Wind Speeds in Focus As Rare Fossil Fuel Output Cut in Reach

By LITTLETON, Colorado, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Texas’s main power generation system is on track for a rare contraction in fossil fuel-fired generation in 2025, as long as output from…

Iraq Signs Deal With Exxon to Help Develop Large Oilfield

By And Iraq and Exxon sign non-binding deal Includes development, export upgrades, profit-sharing, sources say SOMO to secure Asian storage capacity with Exxon BAGHDAD, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil…