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ATM No 39 2025 May 28
In ‘Groundbreaking’ Move, US Approves First Uranium Project Under Accelerated Review Process
- In what it called a “groundbreaking” move to bolster domestic critical mineral production, the US Department of the Interior (DOI) has greenlit the Velvet-Wood uranium and vanadium mine in Utah – marking the nation’s first project approved under a newly accelerated 14-day environmental review process, launched in response to the national energy emergency declared by president Donald Trump.
- Washington has said the US’s current inadequate development of domestic energy resources, including uranium, leaves it vulnerable to hostile foreign actors and poses “an imminent and growing threat to prosperity and national security”.
Portugal wants EU to pressure reluctant France on power connections
- The EU must enforce common market rules to integrate the Iberian peninsula's power grid into wider Europe, overcoming France's reluctance to add interconnections, Portugal said on Tuesday, after a massive blackout hit the peninsula last month.
- The blackout, which started in Spain and also left mainland Portugal without electricity on April 28, could have been less crippling had the two countries had more interconnections to resume power supplies rather than just relying on their own power plants, according to experts and officials.
한수원, 美 오클로와 '4세대 SMR' 기술개발 협력 MOU
- 한국수력원자력은 지난 23일 서울 중구 한수원 방사선보건원에서 미국의 소형모듈원자로(SMR) 개발사 오클로(Oklo)와 4세대 SMR 기술 개발을 위한 업무협약(MOU)을 체결하고 26일 한수원 본사에서 구체적인 협력 방안을 논의했다고 밝혔다.
- 황주호 한수원 사장은 "국내 혁신형 SMR(i-SMR)을 세계 최고 수준의 경쟁력을 갖출 수 있도록 기술 개발에 집중하고, 안전성이 향상된 4세대 SMR 시장의 적기 진출을 위해 선도 기업과 협력하겠다"라며 "오클로와 협력의 시너지가 발휘될 것으로 기대한다"라고 말했다.