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"The US uranium mining industry has the personnel and yellowcake processing plants on standby, and is ready to expand into new areas with discoveries that will provide hundreds of years of available uranium resources from a variety of secure sources," says Michael D. Campbell, chairman of the Uranium (Nuclear & REE) Committee of the Energy Minerals Division of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). "So let the drilling and processing begin."
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 25 December 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-uranium-miners-ready-to-support-nuclear-power,
An inquiry into potential benefits to Victoria of removing prohibitions on nuclear activities has tabled its final report in the Australian state's parliament. Energy security, stability and accessibility, and the need to lower carbon emissions due to climate change should be the priority, regardless of technology, the report finds.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 27 November 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Australian-state-completes-report-on-nuclear-prohi
CNNC Rössing Uranium has announced the suspension of normal mining operations at the Rössing uranium mine in Namibia from 28 March because of a partial lockdown of the Erongo region in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Elsewhere, uranium miners continue to address issues arising from the global pandemic.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 31 March 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Rossing-operations-suspended-in-Namibian-lockdown
The government of New South Wales should support the repeal in its entirety of legislation that prohibits uranium mining and nuclear facilities in the Australian state, an inquiry by the state's Upper House has concluded. As well as encouraging and supporting uranium exploration, the state should also pursue the repeal of federal prohibitions on nuclear facilities, it recommends.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 06 March 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Inquiry-recommends-repeal-of-nuclear-bans-in-New-S
Australia's Aura Energy has lodged a claim against the Swedish government for compensation for the financial loss resulting from a ban on uranium exploration and mining, introduced in August 2018. The company had planned to extract uranium as a by-product from its 100%-owned Häggån polymetallic project in Sweden.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 12 November 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Aura-seeks-compensation-for-Swedish-uranium-ban
It is not too late for Australia to join nuclear power countries in the fight against climate change, writes Tania Constable, CEO of Minerals Council of Australia.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 25 October 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-Australia-must-review-its-outdated-regul
The number of Australians who say the country should develop nuclear power in order to reduce its carbon emissions has grown over the past eight years and now stands at just over 50%, according to a poll by Roy Morgan, the country's longest established market research company.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 08 October 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Australian-poll-shows-strengthening-public-support
Australia should repeal its prohibition on nuclear energy regardless of whether it decides to build nuclear power plants, Ziggy Switkowski, a former chairman of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, told a federal parliamentary committee yesterday. Switkowski, who led the 2006 Review of Uranium Mining Processing and Nuclear Energy in Australia, was the first to address the committee's inquiry into the prerequisites for nuclear energy in the country.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 31 August 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Switkowski-Australia-should-repeal-nuclear-ban
Australia should repeal its prohibition on nuclear energy regardless of whether it decides to build nuclear power plants, Ziggy Switkowski, a former chairman of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, told a federal parliamentary committee yesterday. Switkowski, who led the 2006 Review of Uranium Mining Processing and Nuclear Energy in Australia, was the first to address the committee's inquiry into the prerequisites for nuclear energy in the country.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 30 August 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Switkowski-Australia-should-repeal-nuclear-ban
Energoatom and Cameco have signed a memorandum of cooperation and understanding as part of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant operator's strategy to diversify its nuclear fuel supply. The document was signed yesterday at the uranium producer's headquarters in Saskatoon, Canada.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 27 August 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ukraine-further-diversifies-fuel-supply-with-Canad