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NexGen Energy President and CEO Leigh Curyer discusses the uranium market outlook and outlines progress on the Rook 1 project in Canada, which he says will potentially supply 25-30% of the world's mined uranium supply.

Date: Saturday, 02 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Podcast-NexGen-Energy-s-Leigh-Curyer

More than 15 years after mining was suspended at McClean Lake in Saskatchewan, joint venture partners Orano Canada Inc and Denison Mines Corp have announced that production is to restart using the patented Surface Access Borehole Resource Extraction (SABRE) mining method.

Date: Friday, 26 January 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Mining-to-resume-at-McClean-Lake

Public hearings have been held in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region on justification of a licence to use nuclear materials during research to be undertaken by the BN-800 sodium-cooled fast neutron reactor at unit 4 of the Beloyarsk NPP. The materials made available for discussion included a preliminary environmental impact assessment.

Date: Wednesday, 06 December 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-bn-800-fast-reactor-prepares-to-burn-minor-actinides-11347674

Uranium production has begun at enCore Energy Corp's South Texas Rosita Central Processing Plant (CPP). The restart of the plant which last produced yellowcake in 2008 is the first step in enCore's South Texas in-situ leach uranium production pipeline strategy.

Date: Saturday, 02 December 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Texas-uranium-operation-returns-to-production

The first in-situ leach field test programme carried out by Denison on Tthe Heldeth Túé uranium deposit at Waterbury Lake achieved its planned objectives and has confirmed expectations that the deposit can be amenable to mining using in-situ techniques.

Date: Wednesday, 08 November 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Inaugural-study-completed-for-potential-Canadian-I

Rosatom specialists have completed work to rehabilitate legacy uranium tailing sites as part of a project to rehabilitate the Taboshar industrial site near the city of Istiklol in the Sughd region of Tajikistan. Russia has fully implemented measures to reclaim the dump of the low-grade uranium ore factory and four tailings dumps almost five months ahead of schedule.

Date: Saturday, 07 October 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrehabilitation-of-uranium-tailing-site-completed-ahead-of-schedule-11199444

Rosatom says that it has completed the work to reclaim the low-grade uranium ore factory and tailings dumps at Taboshar, near the city of Istiklol in the Sughd region of Tajikistan. The company also said Russia and Tajikistan are considering wider cooperation in the nuclear sector.

Date: Thursday, 05 October 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Clean-up-of-Tajik-uranium-legacy-site-completed-ah

NexGen Energy has completed the Provincial Environmental Assessment (EA) technical review process and submission of the Final Provincial Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for its flagship Rook I project to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment.

Date: Wednesday, 23 August 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NexGen-s-Rook-I-proceeds-to-provincial-public-revi