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Quantum Leap Energy (QLE), a subsidiary of JSE- and Nasdaq-listed ASP Isotopes, has signed a research agreement with the Texas A&M University Engineering Experiment Station to advance commercial production of high-purity uranium hexafluoride, the feedstock required for uranium enrichment. QLE CEO Dr Ryno Pretorius says the US currently has only one operating commercial conversion facility, making expanded domestic capacity essential to energy security, with the collaboration aiming to improve production efficiency, cut costs and support a more resilient nuclear fuel supply chain.
US firm targets seawater as new uranium sourceTexas-based SuperCritical Materials has won an exclusive US Department of Energy licence to extract uranium from seawater using treated acrylic fibres, aiming to shift the United States from a net uranium importer, sourcing up to 75% of enriched uranium from Russia, France and Germany, to a net exporter. The company targets a first plant producing 839 150 kg of uranium a year from 2030 or 2031, and plans a Nasdaq listing this year.
NRWDI advances R2-billion spent-fuel storage planSouth Africa's National Radioactive Waste Disposal Institute now fully operates the Vaalputs facility after securing its licence from Necsa in July 2025, and has completed preliminary design for a R2-billion Centralised Interim Storage Facility targeted for 2030, ahead of a Deep Geological Repository planned by 2065.
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Development stage nuclear fuels company Quantum Leap Energy (QLE) has signed a research agreement with the Texas A&M University Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) to advance and derisk the...
Texas-based SuperCritical Materials Corp said on Tuesday it has won an exclusive license from the US Department of Energy (DoE) to extract uranium from seawater, a process that was developed by US...
Canadian uranium developer Foremost Clean Energy has completed the Phase 2 earn-in requirements under its option agreement with TSX-listed Denison, with Foremost having issued to Denison $2-million...
Buoyed by several significant milestones that the National Radioactive Waste Disposal Institute (NRWDI) has achieved over the past year, CEO Riedewaan Bakardien is upbeat its prospects for shaping...
Buoyed by several significant milestones that the National Radioactive Waste Disposal Institute (NRWDI) has achieved over the past year, CEO Riedewaan Bakardien is upbeat its prospects for shaping...
Last month marked the tenth anniversary of the acquisition of bolting solutions manufacturer Steadfast Scotland by pipes and fittings supplier The Marla Group – a milestone capping a decade of...
Nasdaq-listed Eagle Nuclear Energy Corporation has engaged several key service providers as part of the company's planned prefeasibility study- (PFS-) related drill programme at the Aurora uranium...
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), an entity of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), has cautioned that successfully fulfilling global ambitions to significantly increase...
Canadian uranium producer Cameco Corporation has welcomed an announcement made by the US Department of Energy's (DoE's) Office of Energy Dominance Financing on its conditional commitment for the...
The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the University of Pretoria (UP) to create a framework for bilateral cooperation regarding...
Toronto- and New York-listed Forsys Metals has announced proposed changes to its board and executive leadership team, with John Borshoff to join Forsys with a strategy focused on growing the...
The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) expects to identify a partner within the next year for a planned demonstration small modular reactor (SMR), as it steps up efforts to revive...
TSX- and NYSE-listed Cameco and Orano Canada has reached an agreement with Tepco Resources to acquire its 5% participating interest in the Ciger Lake joint venture, in Canada. Upon closing,...
British Columbia-based Americas Uranium Corporation has received approval for listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, in Germany, with its shares now officially trading under the ticker symbol...
The symbol U and the atomic number 92 are once again among the energy elements being looked at with greater intensity amid global fossil fuel supply disruption and growing demand for triuranium...
Martin Creamer talks about uranium demand, Northern Cape copper and Cementation Africa.
Romania State-owned nuclear energy company Raten is advancing the Advanced Lead Fast Reactor European Demonstrator project to investigate thermal-hydraulic behaviour, materials performance and...
The process of loading 163 nuclear fuel assemblies into the nuclear power plant reactor has been completed.
The global uranium market is expected to maintain its upward trajectory in 2026, fuelled by the worldwide transition to nuclear energy, as nations seek reliable, low-carbon power sources, notes law...
The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) held, on Thursday, a compulsory briefing for suppliers interested in its expression of interest (EoI) regarding small modular reactors (SMRs)....
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