Saudi Arabia plans to extract uranium domestically as part of its nuclear power program and sees this as a step toward “self-sufficiency” in producing atomic fuel, a senior official said on Monday.
Extracting its own uranium also makes sense from an economic point of view, said Hashim bin Abdullah Yamani, head of the Saudi government agency tasked with the nuclearRead more
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck off the coast of Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan, the weather agency said on Thursday.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) the temblor, which registered 3 on Japan's 7-level seismic intensity scale, struck off the coast of Iwate at a depth of 30 km.
The weather agency did not issueRead more
China will plough 2.5 trillion yuan (ê361 billion) into renewable power generation by 2020, the country's energy agency said on Thursday, as the world's largest energy market continues to shift away from dirty coal power towards cleaner fuels.
The investment will create over 13 million jobs in the sector, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said in a blueprint document thatRead more
Authorities in India's western state of Gujarat Friday shut down a nuclear power plant and declared an emergency, following a heavy water leak in one of the reactors, officials said.
All the workers at the plant were reported to be safe.
The leak was detected in Kakrapar Atomic Power Station in Surat, 283 km south of Gandhinagar, the capital cityRead more