BoJ downplays rebuild costs; warns of electricity shortage
The true financial cost of the devastating earthquake and nuclear crisis in Japan may not be as bad as first estimated, but it will likely take the country much longer to recover
View ArticleOpening Bell: Stocks sink after Japan raises nuclear severity level
North American stocks sank on Tuesday after Japan announced that the level of its nuclear crisis at Fukushima was on par with the Chernobyl accident two decades ago.
View ArticleCan nuclear power survive Fukushima?
The accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant is the most serious blow to the industry's credibility in history, and will lead to tighter safety standards, limits on plant life extensions and...
View ArticleUranium stocks decline as Germany goes anti-nuclear
The uranium sector came under selling pressure on Monday after Germany announced it will shut down all of its nuclear reactors by 2022, reversing an energy policy established just last year that called...
View ArticleContrarians buying Tepco
Leading foreign asset management firms, including Fidelity Investments and BlackRock, appear to have added significantly to their holdings of Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) shares after the stock...
View ArticleTepco gets to keep nuclear reactors
The utility at the heart of Japan’s atomic crisis, Tokyo Electric Power Co, won institutional shareholder backing on Tuesday to keep its reactors in the face of anger from rank-and-file stockholders...
View ArticleUranium fuelling a comeback
Four months after the biggest nuclear accident in 25 years, the beaten-down uranium market is showing small signs of life
View ArticleJapan nuclear use cuts 'the reality'
Japan will make new "stress tests" for nuclear reactors, ordered after the Fukushima disaster, a routine part of safety checks to determine how long plants can remain in operation, Japan’s nuclear...
View ArticleBond market to punish polluters after BP, Fukushima
Bond markets are poised to punish polluting companies in the aftermath of the Macondo oil spill and Fukushima nuclear crisis, said the head of Deutsche Asset Management
View ArticleCameco trims demand forecast after Japan disaster
Uranium giant Cameco Corp. trimmed its global uranium demand forecast on Thursday due to the fallout from the Fukushima disaster nearly five months ago
View ArticleUranium market's 'point of maximum pessimism'
Apart from general market weakness, what is the worst that could reasonably happen to the global uranium market?
View ArticleLNG on the rise
Liquefied natural gas prices are surging to a three-year high as demand from Japan, China and India outpaces supply increases, boosting sales for producers from BG Group Plc to Exxon Mobil Corp.
View ArticleAreva to sell first bond since Fukushima disaster
Areva SA, the world’s largest builder of nuclear plants, is selling its first bonds since the Fukushima disaster in Japan made some nations rethink their reliance on atomic energy
View ArticleTokyo Electric says no plans to sell all uranium stakes
Tokyo Electric Power Co on Monday said it has no plans to sell all the stakes it holds in overseas uranium projects, denying a newspaper report that it would take such a step to raise funds to help...
View ArticleUranium takeovers offering big payoffs
Uranium takeovers are offering investors the biggest potential payoffs, less than a year after the partial meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant
View ArticleCameco's adjusted earnings jump, stock falls
Cameco Corp. offered nothing new on its bid for Hathor Exploration Ltd. on Monday, leaving shareholders with plenty of time to focus on the uranium giant’s third quarter earnings. And they were not...
View ArticleWords alone won't fix eurozone's 'major flaw': Buffett
Renowed investor though sees opportunity in a dozen euro stocks and Japan and says he may spend up to US$10-billion on his next acquisition
View ArticleMore MBAs Makes the World a Better Place
The workplace is becoming more competitive as the number of MBA applicants are increasing while the number of jobs is not. MBA’s are becoming more common and there has been many articles discussing...
View ArticleSNC-Lavalin secures $48M contract with Romania nuclear power plant
Canadian engineering giant SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. has won a contract to install venting equipment at Romania’s Cernavoda nuclear power plant, part of an industry-wide safety upgrade in the wake of the...
View ArticleCanadian Solar considering bringing plant to Japan: report
Canadian Solar Inc. plans to build a factory in Japan and is currently in negotiations with local governments in Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures, the Nikkei reported
View ArticleIAEA sees significant nuclear growth despite Fukushima
Global use of nuclear energy could increase by as much as 100 percent in the next two decades on the back of growth in Asia, even though groundbreakings for new reactors fell last year after the...
View ArticleAnalysts raise uranium targets as producers show signs of life
One year after Japan's Fukushima nuclear crisis, analysts are hiking ratings and price targets on uranium companies that have posted some impressive gains of late
View ArticleUranium miners still struggling to emerge from shadow of Fukushima
More than 21 months after Fukushima, the uranium business is still stuck in a rut
View Article'Burnable ice' discovery gives Japan hope of 100-year gas supply
Japan has extracted natural "ice gas" from methane hydrates beneath the sea off its coasts in a technological coup, opening up a super-resource that could meet the country’s gas needs for the next...
View ArticleUranium stocks jump as Japan inches closer to nuclear restarts
Uranium stocks jumped higher on Tuesday after Japan unveiled a pro-nuclear energy plan that could lead to restarts of some of its long-idled nuclear reactors
View ArticleInternational Enexco: Promise of eU3O8
“The intercept is the best we’ve hit on the property to date.” explained Enexco’s Director and COO Bill Willoughby. “However, we can’t call this a discovery hole yet. This is a new location and there...
View ArticleA glimmer of hope for uranium as Japanese reactor set to restart
Japanese plants have remained idled for far longer than analysts expected. But on Tuesday, one nuclear reactor in southern Japan is finally set to restart
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