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The Canadian Nuclear Association's President and CEO John Gorman explains why the country's nuclear sector is well set for the future and says he thinks "soft issues" rather than technology are now the barrier to reaching net-zero. In Focus sees Francois Morin providing a guide to the nuclear industry in China, while the news round-up considers the impact of recent elections.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 02 June 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Podcast-John-Gorman-on-hitting-Canada-s-climate-g
Silex Systems Limited of Australia and Canada’s Cameco Corporation have completed the restructure of SILEX technology licensee Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) resulting in Silex acquiring a 51% majority interest in GLE, and Cameco increasing its interest from 24% to 49%.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 04 February 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssilex-completes-acquisition-of-gle-8493963
The Australian government should consider a partial lifting of the current moratorium on nuclear energy to allow the deployment of new and emerging technologies, a report published today by a parliamentary committee has recommended. The report followed an inquiry into the prerequisites for nuclear energy in the country.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 14 December 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Australian-committee-calls-for-partial-lifting-of
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
MP Ted O’Brien, chair of the standing committee on the environment and energy, will lead the inquiry.
“This will be the first inquiry into the use of nuclear energy in Australia in more than a decade and I believe it’s the first time the Australian Parliament has ever undertaken such an inquiry,” Mr O’Brien said.
“Clearly there are very passionate views on either side of this debate,” he said.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 02 August 2019
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/government-announces-inquiry-into-nuclear-energy
South Australia Royal Commission into the Nuclear Fuel Cycle recommended, in its 344-page report published on 9 May, that South Australia should "further investigate" the feasibility of the storage and disposal of international used nuclear fuel and intermediate-level waste. The commission said South Australia has the attributes and capabilities to manage and dispose of international used nuclear fuel safely, and it would have a significant inter-generational benefit to the community.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 10 May 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssouth-australia-considers-international-waste-facility-4888242
Kazakhstan national atomic company Kazatomprom has signed a memorandum of cooperation and US Centrus Energy (formerly known as USEC) that "specifies the development of mutually beneficial relations on competitive supplies of Kazakhstan's uranium to the world market". The document was signed by Kazaotmprom chairman Askar Zhumagaliyev and Centrus Energy senior vice-president Kevin Alldred during Zhumagaliyev's official visit to the USA.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 24 October 2015
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskazatomprom-looks-to-us-and-restructures-4700833