The construction of a new coal-fired power station has been blocked by the US state of Georgia, as the issue of carbon dioxide emissions becomes a hot topic.

This could well set a precedent for future coal fired power plants as the judge, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore, cited a decision by the Supreme Court ruling recognising CO2 as a pollutant, before putting a halt to this project (read more…)

Today Khan Resources Incorporated put on $0.20 to close at $1.04 on turnover of 163,000 shares traded. As we are not aware of any new developments we can only imagine that this move is part of the sporadic buying that we have witnessed over the last few months in the uranium sector.

On the 19th June 2008 the company had this to say about their interest in Western ProspectorGroup (read more…)

From time to time we publish other peoples views in an attempt to add some balance to the debate regarding investment opportunities. Today’s article is about Potash as an investment sector and the companies that have caught this writer’s attention. This is the opinion of the author and not uranium stocks (read more…)

The United States nuclear power industry is planning to build 34 new nuclear power plants bringing the total to 134 nuclear reactors going forward. However these projects take time to bring on stream with estimates of 4 to 8 new nuclear plants operational by around 2016. There are a few fences to be cleared along the way including skyrocketing commodity costs, solutions for radioactive waste disposal, forward prices in electricity markets and environmental compliance costs (read more…)

On Saturday night we had the privilege of attending a rugby match between New Zealand’s All Blacks and the Brits at Eden Park in Auckland. It was a super night despite my team getting beat and a wee drop of rain just to add to our despair.

The intermittent showers were a nuisance but there is an upside apparently as New Zealand relies on rain to fill the lakes that are used to generate hydropower (read more…)

For a small financial inducement the Local Authorities in Britain are to be canvassed with the view to seeking volunteers to store radioactive waste. During his monthly media conference, the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, said that:

“The world may need another 1,000 nuclear power stations to bolster energy security and fight climate change and Britain needs 10 nuclear reactors starting operations around 2020 (read more…)

In an attempt to fill 27 job categories the United Kingdom government have relaxed immigration laws in order to attract skilled workers from anywhere with knowledge of the nuclear industry. The Home Office have added these jobs to the ‘national shortage’ list with the hope of attracting the right people with the requisite skill sets (read more…)

When trying to envisage the future have you ever dreamed that one day you might have your own independent nuclear power plant supplying all your energy needs (read more…)

Yoshiaki Arata.

One of our readers has alerted to us this article regarding cold fusion by Steven Krivit of the New Energy Times. It refers to a recent demonstration by researchers in Japan on the 22nd May 2008 who apparently managed to produce excess heat and helium-4, the results of an historic low-energy nuclear reaction experiment (read more…)

An Australian company, Resource Capital Research (RCR) believes that an expected improvement in the price of uranium is part of the reason behind an improving outlook for uranium stocks on both the Australian and Canadian exchanges.

A senior analyst for RCR, John Wilson, said that “positive market sentiment has returned, driven by indications the spot uranium price is about to head up, combined with relative stability in the equity markets following the sub prime rout (read more…)