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
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